I think NINE's big mistake (other than the casting of its leading man, and I LOVE Daniel, but not in this film) ... is that all of the songs take place as isolated pieces on a movie sound stage.
They had a few flashes of chorus girls and Mama and Claudia in his "real life" settings around Rome, but that was it. A mistake not to do it more. I still do think the numbers take place in his head. Just not all on a sound stage.
8 1/2 figured out how to do that mix of reality and fantasy. Nine didn't.
EDIT: I think "Unusual Way" mixed it a bit, although the stuff around the fountain was the sound stage. Still, by that point in the movie, it was too late. The songs felt disjointed, and the leading man was morose. The end.
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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Updated On: 8/14/14 at 04:52 PM