More impressions from Shut up and Sing
Jan. 1st, 2009 05:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
digitalemurIn the scene where they're explaining their song "Lubbock or Leave It" to their producer Rick Rubin, there's a shot of him nodding his shaggy bearded head along with the music. Then there's a shot of his shaggy dreadlocked mop-dog sitting on the carpet, apparently nodding his head along with the music. That was surreal in a way that Christopher Guest would never have dreamed up.
They do a pretty good job of explaining the songs-- it probably seems a little amazing, if you don't already know that yes, this is how the songs on the latest album go, and yes, they really did mean them that way. And then you get to see them cooing over their kids, who are all adorable and... Ori, Emily's son thinks her huuuge belly has whales in it. So it ain't just your kid who has these ideas.
Watching them sit around and gripe about the war in Iraq while hanging out with Emily in the maternity ward is... again with the surreal beyond Christopher Guest's wildest dreams. (Emily has had her happy drugs and is catnapping as they talk.) I can't believe that made it into the movie, and yet it's really important to the story to see that moment.
They do a pretty good job of explaining the songs-- it probably seems a little amazing, if you don't already know that yes, this is how the songs on the latest album go, and yes, they really did mean them that way. And then you get to see them cooing over their kids, who are all adorable and... Ori, Emily's son thinks her huuuge belly has whales in it. So it ain't just your kid who has these ideas.
Watching them sit around and gripe about the war in Iraq while hanging out with Emily in the maternity ward is... again with the surreal beyond Christopher Guest's wildest dreams. (Emily has had her happy drugs and is catnapping as they talk.) I can't believe that made it into the movie, and yet it's really important to the story to see that moment.