So I saw Happy Feet, yet another penguin movie, which had its musical-wannabe bits.<\/p>\n
The moment Gloria sang the first few lines from Prince – Kiss<\/i>, I knew I was going to enjoy the musical direction of the movie. Anybody got the regal connection between that, and Queen<\/b>? (They did the choir bits of Somebody To Love<\/i>!)<\/p>\n
Think even further, to Hugh Jackman playing Memphis. When I think Memphis, I think of Elvis Presley… the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll<\/b>. As if that wasn’t enough, he also talked like Elvis and sang Heartbreak Hotel<\/i>.<\/p>\n
Think even more – these are Emperor Penguins<\/b> you’re talking about!<\/p>\n
Mumble<\/b>, the main character, had a bowtie-like marking on his chest… which, I suppose, was a homage to Fred Astaire, who tap danced with a bowtie as well.<\/p>\n
Hugo “Agent Smith” Weaving was unmistakeable; so was Robin Williams. Excellent cinematography, with landscapes so real and beautiful you’d wish you were there to take pictures.<\/p>\n
Everything is crisp and so realistic; even the humans you’d see later are so real they spark debates. I think Animal Logic<\/b> probably had motion capture humans to keep to the computer-generated theme (just like stop-motion strictly does not have any motion that is not stop-motion.) They did, after all, do the computer-generated Agent Smiths and Neos in The Matrix series, you know. :O<\/p>\n
I find I love Queen songs much much more after they become featured in movies – Wayne’s World<\/b> brought car-headbanging with Bohemian Rhapsody<\/b> (though I’d been doing it before watching the movie); Flash Gordon<\/b> had the tacky Flash<\/b>; Highlander<\/b> featured Princes Of The Universe<\/b>, and Shaun Of The Dead<\/b> tells you to “kill the Queen<\/i>” when Don’t Stop Me Now<\/b> plays (complete with cool zombie-slashing choreography) and ends with You’re My Best Friend<\/b>. And now, the faux choir of Somebody To Love<\/b> plays constantly in my head.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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