Share on your blog movies with a music related theme and link back here at The Bumbles. And don't forget to visit your fellow participants!Dreamgirls (2006). The lives and loves and struggles of the artists who created The Motown Sound. OOPS! I didn't mean to say "The Motown Sound." This is pure fiction, not at all about Diana Ross and the Supremes and Berry Gordy and Marvin Gaye.
A Hard Day's Night (1964). The black-and-white Beatles classic I mentioned last week. This week it makes the list because the catalyst for all that follows is a scheduled TV appearance by The Beatles, and all the havoc that ensues because of Beatlemania. The concert sequence at the end is unforgettable.
Loving You (1957). Elvis as Deke Rivers, a naive delivery boy who knows how to swing a guitar. Lizbeth Scott and Wendall Corey are the sophisticated showbiz types who recognize The Next Big Thing when they see it. They train him and groom him and eventually Deke goes from making girls swoon at local sock hops to a major TV appearance. It's so close to the true story of a certain poor, young Memphis truck driver who knows how to swing a guitar it's almost cinema verite.
Wow, I have not seen any of these, though Dreamgirls has been on my "to see" list for some time. My list is here.
ReplyDeletebeetles and elvis--you can't get better than that. Kaye—the road goes ever ever on
ReplyDeleteFun choices.
ReplyDeleteAmen to A Hard Day's Night!
ReplyDeleteI thought for sure you'd have The Blues Brothers!
ReplyDeleteOne that I thought of after creating our list was Almost Famous.