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| re: Dead Ringer The Musical Is A Great Idea But What About Frankenstein? | |
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rockfenris2005 06:30 am UTC 12/05/09 |
| In reply to: | Dead Ringer The Musical Is A Great Idea But What About Frankenstein? - steven_stuart 11:58 pm UTC 12/04/09 |
| Here’s how I would justify it if I was going to include them in “Frankenstein” and (warning: this post could be a little graphic?) you look at the songs as corpses being exhumed because that’s essentially what would happen if you used “Dead Ringer” and “Bad for Good”. Great albums, more superior to “Bat out of Hell” and “Back into Hell” in some ways, but not really remembered. Actually I believe “Dead Ringer” has only sold about 8 million copies to date which is NOTHING compared to its predecessor. So for me, as far as the general public is concerned, these albums have long since been buried. So it’s time to dig them up like Frankenstein going round the graveyard at night with a wheelbarrow, shovel and pick, searching for “materials” for the Monster and (later) his bride. The scene I remember the most from my “Frankenstein” (because I haven’t looked at it in a year and I hope I can get back to writing a better draft one of these days) is the scene when the Bride is born. Have you seen the Kenneth Branagh “Frankenstein” from the 90s? If so, do you remember the scene with Helena Bonham-Carter as the Bride? It was horrifying but every time Victor said “Say my name…Say my name…Remember me…Remember me…” the song that came to my mind was “It’s all coming back to me now”. Remember Jim said that song is about dead things coming to life. And in the little guitar solo, Victor and Elizabeth would do that pathetic little waltz. But back to “Dead Ringer”, watch the film “Heavenly Creatures” directed by Peter Jackson and that’s how I would visualize “Dead Ringer: The Musical” being done, except rougher and with a man who imagines his wife having an affair. He kills her and we see the flashback to the first time they ever met, “Dead Ringer for Love”, and he is arrested and sings “Everything is Permitted” in a scene similar to the last scene in Alfred Hitchcock’s “Psycho”. P.S. Just curious, but what songs from the non-Bat albums would you like to see in “Frankenstein”? | |
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