Victor Victoria / Cabaret (Two-Pack)

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Well paired movies.......2004-12-20

Julie Andrews has vocal range

Basic story is of (Julie Andrews) a starving out of work female singer that has to pose as a man pretending to be a woman in order to get work. She meets a promoter (James Garner) who is at odds as to his/her gender. After a sneak peek he knows the difference but what about his big time gangster buddies?
This is more than a remake movie as it has a lot of Blake Edward's in it, and many top actors and singers. However that is a character (Blake Edwards as Charles Bovin, Private Investigator hired by Labisse) that distracts from the movie by using too many slapstick scenes that do not fit the story. Over looking this distraction you find singing ranges that very few people can match in Julie Andrews. Leslie Ann Warren is like a shiny toy. There are way too many great actors to mention in this review.
You will like the story. You will like the singing. You will want to watch this over and again.
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"Tomorrow belongs to me."

There is several recordings form stage to this movie out there. This movie has songs that you remember and probably sing in the shower. It is also the only movie production of the play therefore even though it is exceptional there is no comparison.

I appreciate books that become movies and movies that are novelized. So naturally I read Christopher Isherwood's "Berlin Stories" ISBN: 0811200701. They were o.k. However, it was not Cabaret by any stretch of the imagination.

What I found interesting is that I always heard that Germans liked to sing of things as the deer in the field and so forth. Here there was a perfect example when they broke into song with "Tomorrow Belongs to Me" You are swept up in it and forget that this is just a movie. The pacing and photography in the movie was excellent.

As long as you did not see the play you will not notice the absence of some songs such as "Don't Tell Mama" and thing that "Money Money" is a natural.

On the darker side the movie is more than just a musical romp through Germany. And the specter is also well portrayed.

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