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In Reply to: Best movie musical....it's probably this... as the direction was... posted by TWB on September 19, 2006 at 00:20:20:
The music was fantastic, the choreography by Agnes DeMille was, unlike in most musicals, a major strength of the film, and the casting was perfect. I give "Sound of Music" 2nd place; it too was superbly filmed, but was too long and eventually tedious.
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the choreography is beautiful but to me it makes the film disjointed and now seems very dated...take it out and it is very modern...Fred Zinnemann was an artist and a gifted director. I love so many of his films...
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There is a DVD of a late 1990's British revival where the dream sequence is handled brilliantly and the dancers are the actual performers in the play.
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THAT.... would make more sense
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If you can find it it is truly amazing. Every player is a triple threat singer/actor/dancer. The story is "darker" than the film (not to denegrate the film, which I love) and all in all it's the best production of this classic I have seen.
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