Funny Girl

[muscle23ftl]

Posted: 12/12/05 at 1:27pm

i bought this movie at the store becuz it was only $1.99 and i am watching it...it's a pretty good movie....but i still don't really get it ...Barbra(Funny Brice) is a bitch to everyone...??? i quite don't get what is it about. Anyhow...Barbra sings some opera song....is that her real voice hitting those notes??? anyone knows???

[muscle23ftl]

Posted: 12/12/05 at 1:28pm

by the way...im sorry...the movie is "Funny LADY" not funny girl..ooops.

[BobbyBubby]

Posted: 12/12/05 at 1:30pm

I'm not quite sure what you consider to be the "Opera Song" in FUnny Girl...

But regardless, every note sung by Barbra in Funny Girl, and everything else she's ever done, is hers. She used to display her range more frequently than she does now. She used to be able to go quite high.

[BobbyBubby]

Posted: 12/12/05 at 1:30pm

You mean in Funny Lady when she breaks the streetlamp from the high note?

That's her voice.

[sidneybruhl]

Posted: 12/12/05 at 1:32pm

You need to see "Funny Girl." It is far superior to "Funny Lady."

[muscle23ftl]

Posted: 12/12/05 at 1:34pm

oh yeah...i meant that part in Funny Lady...it just didn't sound like her voice when she breaks the streetlamp??? anyhow...i will have to believe u bobby.

[BSoBW2]

Posted: 12/12/05 at 1:34pm

Funny Brice.

Funny.

[muscle23ftl]

Posted: 12/12/05 at 1:35pm

what is her name then ?

[BobbyBubby]

Posted: 12/12/05 at 1:37pm

Fanny Brice.

Barbra goes quite high on several early recordings. Trust me. Her range used to be crazy. Now, she doesn't show it off as much.

[muscle23ftl]

Posted: 12/12/05 at 1:42pm

i trust u...i just never heard her going that high at all. Well...maybe she is a better singer than i thought. lol...and thanks for the correction of the name...lol...i got confused becuz of the name of the movie...but i knew it was Fanny...lol

[BobbyBubby]

Posted: 12/12/05 at 1:44pm

Check out her early stuff. It's amazing. The first 10 albums or so, are her best. They just released her 5 tv specials on dvd, and they really show Barbra at her best before she got all precise and anal about everything.

[redhotinnyc2]

Posted: 12/12/05 at 1:53pm

Barbra's first three ablums are some of the finest recordings by a singer ever to be put on vinyl. She took such risks with her choices and sang the hell out of that stuff - along with having fantastic arrangements.

[jimmirae]

Posted: 12/13/05 at 1:12am

She's not just a "Bitch" to everyone. Fanny Brice is very co-dependant and falls head over heals in love (The DRAMA kind) for Nicky Arnstein. He breaks her heart and goes to jail and Fanny remains a big star, thus ends "Funny Girl". When "Funny Lady" picks up, years have passed and she is STILL in love with Arnstein and finds he is remarried to a much older woman who can keep him in the lifestyle to which he is accoustomed (Gambler, BIG TIME!) and so she goes, The depression hits and Fanny wants to climb back herself to the heights of Showbiz and just before she has to sell herself out to do it, She meets Billy Rose (James Caan), He loves Fanny, Fanny loves Nicky, and so it goes - it is more about finally finding out who you are and conquering your secret inner demons that possess you than it is about a "Bitchy Woman". One of my favorite Barbra films!

[vbplayer]

Posted: 12/13/05 at 1:27am

Still laughing about "Funny" Brice. That is a classic.

[jimmirae]

Posted: 12/13/05 at 1:30am

Oh VBPlayer!! I didn't see that the first time and just laughed soooooo haaaard!! Thank You!! That WAS Funny, FUNNY Brice!!!