And don't forget the Irony of Ironies.  In DAS BOOT, the German Submariners
singing ITS A LONG WAY TO TIPPERARY in English!!!

Randy
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rosanna Bencoach" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Monday, May 22, 2006 9:36 AM
Subject: Re: [VA-HIST] NEW WORLD revisited - OT on background music


> >Date:    Sun, 21 May 2006 14:04:18 -0400
>>From:    Jurretta Heckscher <[log in to unmask]>
>>Subject: Re: NEW WORLD revisited
>>
>>On May 21, 2006, at 6:39 AM, Randy Cabell wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>>. . . one of the major problems with life is that there is NO
>>>background music.
>>>
>>>
>>
>>That's a great line, Randy--thanks.  I agree!
>>
>>--Jurretta
>>
>>
>>
> It is a great line!  I'm on an e-mail list for discussion of show and
> film records and recently a member posted a story he had heard but had
> not been able to authenticate.  A particular composer reportedly went to
> Alfred Hitchcock, furious that he had announced that there would be no
> music in his next film.  Hitchcock replied that if he could answer one
> question, he'd have the job.  The film begins with a woman alone in a
> lifeboat, it continues as other survivors climb onboard.  It ends as
> they sight a ship.  Where was the orchestra?  The conductor replied that
> it was in the other boat, behind the boat with the movie cameras!  He
> got the job.
>
> I was inspired by the story (true or not) to rent the film.  Hitchcock's
> "Lifeboat" is a remarkably gripping piece of work (realistic suspense,
> not horror), set during WWII.  The only orchestral music is at the very
> beginning and end of the movie.  In between, the soundtrack consists of
> ambient sounds, a survivor playing a metal recorder (the kind I had in
> grade school, but then we called a "flute" though I'm not sure it was),
> and survivors occasionally singing parts of old songs and lullabyes.  I
> won't say any more, in case anyone is planning to rent it.  It's well
> worth the time and rental fee.  Excellent cast, including a very young
> Hume Cronyn.  (And, back to the topic, it didn't bore, frustrate and
> confuse me the way many scenes in THE NEW WORLD did.)
>
> Rosanna Bencoach
>
>
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