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Published: 2011-03-01 10:00:24 +0000 UTC; Views: 3904; Favourites: 54; Downloads: 15
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This idea I came up with back in 2008 - when High School Musical was the bane of everyone’s existence and there was just no way of getting away from that brain-rotting candyfloss. The cartoon itself is also pretty old, but not 2008 old - more like about two months old.
Poor Erik - I feel your pain, considering this is partly based on a real occurrence. I convinced my friends to watch ‘Amadeus’ with me once and while one of them actually liked it (although she admitted that watching the priest slowly lose his sanity was the highlight for her) the other one actually had the cheek to fall asleep. Fall asleep!!
I got my revenge by whining about how much High School Musical sucked and how much better the original ‘HSM’ (aka Grease) is when she made me watch that horrid movie.
I don’t even want to know what will happen when those three discover Twilight.
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Oh... oh wow... I think Erik would probably viciously kick the TV in, about 20 minutes into the movie. If you're going to write about it (please do, it would be HILARIOUS) please, please send me the link to it when you post it.
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Okay. But it'll be a chapter in another story. Maybe the next chapter of Randomness and Craziness. But I will send you the link for that.
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At last! Another lover of the awesome Amadeus!
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Oh yes!! 
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FALL ASLEEP?! On "Amadeus"? For real?! Gosh, I feel Your pain! And great comic as always.
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*siiiiiiiiiigh* Yeah. I don’t know. *shrugs* Some people… what can you do? (I am making this little guess based on your username: you’re a big Amadeus fan too, aren’t you? 
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I'm a fan of music and musicals in general, a fan of biopics about musicians' lives (yeah, Amadeus too 
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You and me both - I am a total Victorian at heart. I mean, yes, sure, I love my electricity, running water, decent medical care, etc. but I really love the clothes and custom of the Victorian Age. Well, actually I like almost all history, but Victorians especially. ^^,
So you're seen 'Immortal Beloved' then...? (pleasesayyesomg)
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You kidding me?! The one about Beethoven with G.Oldman?! OF COURSE I did. Although it was sooo long time ago... MY! Must see this again. Beethoven's one of my favourite composers, damn! 
And as for running water and things like such - I totally agree with You. But I think that if I was actually BORN in the Vicotrian era, living in those times, not knowing what's ahead of humanity, I totally wouldn't mind, right?
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Gosh yes. It is AMAZE! Beethoven is my absolute favourite composer (sorry Mozart) he's just that awesome.
I've never even heard of that film. The only composer biography film I've ever seen (aside from Amadeus and Immortal Beloved) was one about Chopin. And it was awful. I really didn't like it at all - which is weird, because I really like Chopin's music, even though I know nothing about his life. Probably because it had Hugh Grant in it and I can't stand Hugh Grant.
Do you know of any good biographic films about composers? Please let me know. Also: is there one about Paganini? Because there's no composer I'd like to see a film about more than him. He has the most awesome material to make movies about, seriously, I mean: sold his soul to the devil for the ability to play the violin? C'mon, that's cinematic gold!
Interesting point - I've never thought about it that way before, but yes: if you don't know what you're missing, you can't miss it. Though: would you also appreciate the awesome era you're living in if you knew no other life...?
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Starting from the bottom - maybe not? Haha, it's really hard to say, but I really find my mentality pretty "victorian".
As for "Farinelli" - it's a 1994 Italian/French film (it won a Golden Globe for best foreign language film and was also nominated for an Oscar), not about a composer, but a singer - Farinelli (Carlo Maria Broschi), who is considered one of the greatest castratos in history. The movie has amazing score (to provide a castrato voice they have used a digital mix of a soprano Ewa Małas-Godlewska and a counter-tenor Derek Lee Ragin). I think it's really worth watching. It's quite touching, the costumes and settings (1700s) are beautifully done and the story's quite interesting too.
As for Chopin - I don't enjoy "Impromptu" with Grant either. And Judy Davis in the role of George Sand is just euh. 
As for Paganini - there are two movies of which I know - "The Magic Bow", but I didn't watch it, therefore I don't know of its quality. It's pretty old - 1946 and since I don't like early cinema I never bothered to watch although I propably should, cause the music is amazin I've heard. The other one is "Paganini", staring Klaus Kinski, his wife and son (1989). I hardly remember it - it was quite dark, but I never really enjoyed Kinski's work, therefore I didn't even like this movie so much as to remember it well. There's lots of sex there, which I didn't like all that much. You can check them out, but in my opinion they're not that good.
More good films (according to me): "Mozart's sister" - a French biopic about Nannerl Mozart (the costumes have blown my mind), and "Io, don Giovanni" (not sure if there's an English translation) about lirycist Lorenzo da Ponte and his affiliation with Mozart. Don't like Mozart in this film (not Tom Hulce
Hope I helped.
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You helped a LOT, thank you!
I've unticked the box that says "remove message when I reply" so all that info is still in my inbox for future reference. ^^,
Wow, they're all foreign films - Hollywood needs to get its butt in gear and make some biographical flicks about musicians ... but I guess they'd have done that ages ago if they thought there was any feasible target audience. Failing that, welp, I guess we just get a Madagascar 8 (or whatever the heck number they're on these days *eyeroll*)
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Haha, it's only three. Madagascar 3.
And as for biopics - yes, they are all foreign ones, mainly Italian/French. Basically it's very sad, cause it seems that the more money they have in "Hollywood", they spend it on bigger and bigger trash.
Oh, and I'm so happy I could've been of assistance.
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No prob your work is great!
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Haha, apparently, yes. EVERYONE RUN FOR COVER!!
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Is this awesome?
The answer is yes.
This is awesome. 
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Why, thank you.
Glad you think so, because expressions are about the hardest part to get right. My grasp of anatomy has improved greatly, but I still struggle to draw a decently fluid comic expression. Like you manage to... *shifty eyes* So I guess I'll just have to nick your ability from you then...
(jk. And thanks for the fave.)
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omg you are genius!!! great idea for a comic! fantastic.
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MORE! This is very funny, love the facial expressions/dialogue. Especially the last panel.
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Haha, thanks!
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honestly I find HSM to be too ficticious that every single person in a high school is so perky that they RANDOMLY burst into song + dance. That's why my only fav musicals are Sweeney Todd and PotO, they don't burst in at random, they actually have some good timing and a dramatic, tragic story... (and bluud 
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"There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them." So put down the remote and pick up a book. Or we'll find you
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Agreed! Very much agreed.
(Although I wasn't too fond of Sweeney Todd on account of there being too MUCH blood.
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Thank you!
Hmm I see your point, though I have to say at one point(near the end) I was saying "Okay that totally looks like tomato juice." xD
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"There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them." So put down the remote and pick up a book. Or we'll find you
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Now my theory is proven true.
Raoul and Christine mental capacities comprise of mainly cotton candy and gelatin, notwithstanding their social aptitudes does not exceed puerile teenagers. (please pardon that caustic attack, but this is my opinion of that pair...)
Erik is a genius whose entire virtuosity and brilliance that only a seldom and persecuted few have been compared.
Initially when my sister first rented the movies , I deemed it innocuous films, and consider them quite beneficial, as it displayed kids confronting peer pressure about being pegged into cliques and pursuing only stereotypical activities and passions. But, as for for musical and dramatic, not to mention social and spiritual substances, it fall woefully flat against such standards as a film like "Amadeus " has upheld.
Erik's suffering is only naturally imaginable, being cajoled excessively and taunted and belittled into enduring such mentally detrimentally films is somehow a gracious yet hilarious nod to that odd genre of black comedy.
Regarding the artistic merits:
You never cease to amaze me. Countless times this has been said, but what else can be spoke here but the truth?
Christine has a such a Kelly-esque grace and charm, while Raoul, appears to have least been molded more pleasing, he appears to have gradually eradicated some of his arrogant, childish, effectuate foppish ways and mannerism, or else you have toned them down considerably, and now we can all tolerate him somewhat more fairly.
Erik, is rendered with such a classic brooding tragic anti-heroic, though I see some of your wit and sarcasm surfaced at times in this delightful characterization.
I suffered the same as our poor Erik: my family fell asleep watching both the film of War and Peace ad the opera of War and Peace! What gall! Though I credit my brother for being excited about the battle scenes...
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Wow! Thank you for the amazing comment!
Black comedy: I probably shouldn't love it as much as I do.
As to Raoul - maybe the lack of long hair does a good deal more for his image that we'd have thought.
PS: Have you watched 'The King's Speech'?
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You are most welcome!
Black Comedy, life is like Black Comedy, for all men are scorned and laughed by the Devil in this mad world...
Yes, he now he appears to resemble a man, not some effeminate fop who is more feminine than his own sisters!
No, I have been to the cinema in ages!
But I plan to buy it on DVD!
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Raoul WOULD watch HSM!
And Erik, having EPIC tastes, would so totally detest it.
However, if they were watching the TAC of Les Miz, the fop would doze off while Erik would probably love it.
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Agreed! No wonder movie nights with those three always flop.
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Indeedy!
As for Twilight:
Raoul *whiny voice*: But Eriiiik, you're obsessive, like the main guy!
Erik: *grumblegrumblebettertastethaninsecurelittlegirlswhobitetheirlipallthetimeandconsiderthatactinganddoesn'tsparkle**
Christine: *smiling sweetly, as usual*
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Ooo what is the movie about?
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Haha, I'm glad someone commented on the interaction - I had so much fun planning out what they'd say and how they'd get along with each other.
Thanks! Yeah, Christine's hair tends to have done a great deal of "evolving" since I first attempted a more Disney-ish/cartoon-y style.
Amadeus... hmmn... a bit difficult to describe. It’s one of those movies where you CAN sum it up in one sentence but then it sounds awful. I’ll try in a few sentences: it’s a biography of the life of Mozart told by a supposedly insane Antonio Salieri in the form of a confession to a priest. Basically, Salieri’s #1 dream in life was to be a great composer and praise God through his music. As a kid he made a deal with God that if God granted him the ability to compose great music, he’d live his life entirely for God… or something to that effect. At first this seems to be going well, then enter Mozart at stage left.
The guy is basically an 18th century rockstar. Loud, obscene, drinks a lot, fools around with women, spends money recklessly, parties 24/7 -- and still writes beautiful music, while Salieri, who has devoted his life to fulfilling his end of his ‘Deal with God’ still only writes mediocre stuff. And from there it’s just Salieri getting increasingly pissed off and starting to concoct murder plans. And then it’s just a race between Salieri and Mozart’s reckless lifestyle to see who gets to off him first.
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Yeah, actually it’s a lot better than what I’ve written. More complex, at any rate. It features what I think is the best script ever written, which is shown perfectly in this one beautiful scene which I think is probably the best scene ever in any movie. Ever. Period.
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That actually sounds amazing! I'm going to have to write it down so I can watch it, if I see it I'll be sure to tell you. Hmm
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Should be. It's one of those films that the library usually has - even our tiny little library has a dusty old VHS copy thereof.
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I'm just glad almost nobody thinks of it... Thank God they only had like, 3 years left.
What if the series started when they were 13?!!!! PEDOBEAR!!!!!
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True. Although the vast majority of the movie's fanbase is underage. I don't know whether this makes it better or actually worse. O___o
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Better. Children are still learning, their personalities changing, minds growing. They have hope
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