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No great fan of musicals, yet I have to admit that I do have a favourite. This is largely because I was at an impressionable age and saw a lot of movies at the time. The year was somewhere between 1956 and 1960, making me about ten years old, give or take a few. I had seen musicals like Rock Around the Clock and some Elvis movies before but nothing like the full blown Broadway romantic epic that I walked into, so unsuspecting, that day. It was Carousel. I can recall very little of the story and what I do probably stems from a later viewing of it, when I was more capable of understanding. It was the music that caught me, held on like an obsession through subsequent years, and still holds me fascinated today. Of course, the fact that Mark Knopfler uses the theme to introduce his song, Tunnel of Love, is especially meaningful to me, but that's not where its power comes from. It's something indefinable and I can only point to the effect it had on me. I must have been a particularly romantic little soul in those days. Anyway, there you have it. I can watch the movie now and wonder what I saw in it. But the music! The music infects my innermost being and nothing in later musicals comes anywhere near having such an effect on me. How bloody embarrassing. |
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