Originally posted by Bosse de NageApart from allowing JD and HBC to sing, I don't see the problem with the approach, but mostly the execution... What about you?
I would have taken a different approach, myself. The lyrics were fine, but the arrangements ... What style would you have preferred?
(I presume you're talking about the film here and not the musical that inspired it. I haven't seen the latter.)
Originally posted by PalynkaThe film. Didn't know there was a musical.
Apart from allowing JD and HBC to sing, I don't see the problem with the approach, but mostly the execution... What about you?
(I presume you're talking about the film here and not the musical that inspired it. I haven't seen the latter.)
I think so. I'd have chosen music with simpler lines to complement the horror rather than drown it. Something more Brechtian, perhaps, like Tom Waits' theatre music (Black Rider, Alice).
Whose voices would you have substituted for JD & HBC?
Originally posted by Bosse de NageWhat about Nick Cave and Patti Smith?
The film. Didn't know there was a musical.
I think so. I'd have chosen music with simpler lines to complement the horror rather than drown it. Something more Brechtian, perhaps, like Tom Waits' theatre music (Black Rider, Alice).
Whose voices would you have substituted for JD & HBC?
Originally posted by PalynkaYeah ... if you were ever wondering who'd put Depp, Carter, and Rickman into a film and have them sing, well ....
Apart from allowing JD and HBC to sing, I don't see the problem with the approach, but mostly the execution... What about you?
(I presume you're talking about the film here and not the musical that inspired it. I haven't seen the latter.)