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Isn't it time to revive TOMMY?
#25Isn't it time to revive TOMMY?
Posted: 5/20/13 at 5:07pm^As well as "Their subsequent fall was inevitable" in Matilda. That one really gets me. I hate false rhymes.
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#27Isn't it time to revive TOMMY?
Posted: 5/31/13 at 8:14pmI mean, sure, Townshend isn't Sondheim. But, he is a great rock song writer and was genius in coming up with the first rock opera. So, considering that, I'm willing to cut him some slack on things like false rhymes.
"If you try to shag my husband while I am still alive, I will shove the art of motorcycle maintenance up your rancid little Cu**. That's a good dear"
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#28Isn't it time to revive TOMMY?
Posted: 5/31/13 at 8:49pm
I want to direct TOMMY eventually, set in the period around when the album and The Who blew up instead of in the canonical but extremely anachronistic post-WWII where Townshend set it, admittedly rather arbitrarily.
All the things that make up Tommy- arcade culture, hard drugs, television talk shows, self-help gurus and the like- typify the post-Vietnam era far more than the post-WWII. The movie played around with this, being intentionally somewhat vague by the end as to whether or not it was present day or a period piece.
#29Isn't it time to revive TOMMY?
Posted: 5/31/13 at 11:13pm
I think Townsend is a genius. The cultural symbolism explored in Tommy is beyond the likes of any other piece of pop art I've ever come across.
I would love for someone to try and set it in the present day. In a lot of ways, particularly when it comes to mental illness and the absurdity of celebrity, Tommy is more relevant now than it ever was.
"I shall stay until the wind changes."
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