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OT (Sort of) - Hedwig and the Angry Inch

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littledarlin:
i love hedwig.  it's the only movie i've ever been able to watch over and over without getting sick of it.  i mean i have literally spent nights watching it, i watched it 3 times in a row once.  it's so profoundly beautiful.  and i love the soundtrack too. 

starboardlight:
"Last time I saw you
We'd just split in two.
You were looking at me.
I was looking at you. You
had a way so familiar,
But I could not recognize,
Cause you had blood on your face;
I had blood in my eyes.
But I could swear by your expression
That the pain down in your soul
Was the same as the one down in mine.
That's the pain,
Cuts a straight line down through the heart;
We called it love.
We wrapped our arms around each other,
Trying to shove ourselves back together.
We were making love,
Making love."

JCM is a genius for putting those words together. I don't know if brilliant is the right word, but they're express something so primal and urgent to me.

I remember reading Casey's "Classical Reference" thread, and the discussion veered off to the Bruderschaft. This song was my first intro to the "Children of the Sun, the Moon, and the Earth." I loved that JCM stirred several old mythologies into one story told through song. In the thread, Casey and naun and a few others talked about how Proulx might have been referencing this story for the title. After all the children were "broken" apart at the back.How achingly beautiful, the idea that Ennis and Jack were the two halves that found each other. It was probably a stretch, but still it's there for us to ponder.

JCinNYC2006:
Barb that's so cool that you liked it!  I had never seen the show so I wasn't sure what to expect, but I loved the music, the performers and the direction, definitely an overlooked musical adaptation.  The song "Wicked Little Town" is my favorite, and there was a benefit album put out last year or so, and Rufus Wainwright does a version of "Origin of Love" that's really good.

Juan

ednbarby:
Mmmmm.  Beautiful, beautiful words, Nipith.  Thanks for posting that.  And Juan, *THANK YOU* for encouraging me to watch this movie when I was :gasp!: about to send it back without viewing it out of spite for the ex-friend who said she'd see Brokeback on the condition that I see Hedwig and then proceeded to gleefully tear Brokeback apart afterwards.  And now I just cannot begin to understand how she cannot see that they are the same story, both just as exquisitely told, albeit completely (almost) differently so.

kirkmusic:
Love me some Hedwig.  I saw the London production with Michael Cerveris in 2000.  Thought the adaptation into a film was so well done.  I'll be on the lookout for Nick, rt.

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