It's Drimble Wedge & The Vegetations in the movie "Bedazzled."
I was pointed to that by somebody at Facebook where I had written:
Apathy nonapathy: I wrote a post that included an apathy theme and gave it an "apathy" tag, which was a new tag, so I applied the tag retroactively, through the 13-year blog archive, and in the process of seeing old posts about apathy, I got some new ideas for things to write.Here's the post that caused me to add the "apathy" tag.
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I bought Bedazzled just last month. It was one of the bail-out-early kinds that are so common these days, once you're down in the dregs.
I watched Streets of Fire last night, which has no plot that makes any motivated sense, but has a nice song Sorcerer sung by Marilyn Martin.
Harmonically interesting by never being in its implied key.
"I watched Streets of Fire last night, which has no plot that makes any motivated sense, but has a nice song Sorcerer sung by Marilyn Martin."
Clicked on the song, but had to bail out early.
I got through 4 words: "I'm tired/I'm thirsty..."
Song was written by Stevie Nicks.
Streets of Fire is subtitled "A Rock and Roll Fantasy." It begins with a written introduction: "Another place, another time . . ."
Directed and written by Walter Hill, natch.
My preceding comment on Streets of Fire was written from memory, from when I saw the movie in 1984. I can't believe I remember that shit, must be something wrong with me. I think the movie was sort of stylistic follow-up to Hill's "The Warriors," which could also have been called a "rock and roll fantasy." There are certain similarities.
Hilarious!
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re: "Streets of Fire" Only place I'm aware of where a black guy lip syncs to a white guy singing.
I saw Bedazzled in the theaters when it first came out. Moore and Cook were hilarious and Raquel Welch was HAWT. The movie is still funny after 50 years, and mirable dictu!, Raquel Welch is still hawt!
Moore and Cook were hilarious and Raquel Welch was HAWT.
Easy for you to say.
You fill me with inertia
Not many songs written about the Higgs boson.
@tcrosse, Welch played "Miss Lilian Lust." A small role, but Dudley Moore got to undo the buttons on her dress and press his head against her breasts (still covered with a bright red bra, since it was 1967 after all). I'm sure I saw it with a date, and I suspect I tried to reenact that scene later that night. Probably with less success than Moore. The screenplay was credited to Peter Cook, but maybe Moore had a hand in the final draft of that scene after he saw Welch.
One note. At the end of the movie Peter Cook, as the Devil, has been tricked by God and lost his wager that he'd collect 100 billion souls before God did. Cook yells out:
"All right, you great git, you've asked for it. I'll cover the world in Tastee-Freez and Wimpy Burgers. I'll fill it full of concrete runways, motorways, aircraft, television and automobiles, advertising, plastic flowers and frozen food, supersonic bangs. I'll make it so noisy and disgusting that even you'll be ashamed of yourself."
Leaving room for the fact that McDonald's and Burger King have taken over from Wimpys, the world is just as Cook predicted. Coincidence?
I got through 4 words: "I'm tired/I'm thirsty..."
Pay no attention to lyrics. The voice is an instrument.
I think the movie was sort of stylistic follow-up to Hill's "The Warriors," which could also have been called a "rock and roll fantasy."
My experience with Hill is only recent, and so far there's no plot that I can account for anybody writing and thinking it's a script.
Noir with explosions might characterize it.
The thing about Sorcerer is that, supposing everything's on white keys, it ostensibly operates in A minor but has a G major chord that it shifts to, announcing that it's really in the key of C, which it never actually is in. It's always away from home.
" The voice is an instrument."
I did. Don't like that kind of singing. Might have put up with it a bit longer, but the word "thirsty" set me off.
Stanley Donen directed it. Vastly underrated director.
Singin' in the Rain
On the Town
Bedazzled
Charade
Two For the Road
Damn Yankees!
He's still alive. 93.
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Hipster status signaling. Ann Arthouse is rearing its head.
I get a lot of Africans that want to be my friend.
If they could only speak English, I might give them a chance, alas, as it is, they are my new ants to step on...
@Etienne, that's nothing. I have Nigerians offering to send me millions of dollars if only I send them my ;-)bank account number and passcode. ;-)
So Bedazzled predated the Talking Heads. Amazing.
I LOVE the original "Bedazzled" - my favorite little scene is Peter Cook tearing the last few pages out of Agatha Christie mystery novels. I was skeptical about the remake, but it wasn't as bad as I had been expecting. If anyone has been hesitant to see it, I say get over it and enjoy the twist that is Elizabeth Hurley as Satan.
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