The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #58488   Message #949728
Posted By: Nerd
10-May-03 - 01:11 AM
Thread Name: Review: A Mighty Wind
Subject: RE: Review: A Mighty Wind
Ron, He could have read the label, but even though the word Linda is singing is a declension of "Mbube," which is the Zulu word for "lion," it doesn't sound like it. It sounds more like "Wimoweh."

Don, I agree. In fact, by cutting between the singers onstage and the backstage antics, but leaving the stage performances audible in the background, they not only short shrift the audience on the stage performance, they also make a disastrous continuity blunder: we hear the entirety of the concert in real time, whether we see the onstage part or the backstage part. It is impossible, with the sound of the concert playing as an unbroken flow, that there were more somgs that we just didn't hear. Which means this was a twenty-minute concert in which each act did an opener and a closer and that's it! Oops!