5/30/2023 0 Comments Oliver twist oliver![]() ![]() Man, the Oscars were big on musicals back in the '50s and '60s, but, alas, until 2002's "Chicago", this was the last musical to win Best Picture. ![]() It's at least a meatier and, of course, shorter musical take on Cockney misfortune than "My Fair Lady", so of course it was a shoe in for the Academy Award for Best Picture. Well, this film is at least shorter than "The Sound of Music", but in case you were asking for "more" "Oliver Twist", first off, shut up if you're actually pulling those puns, and secondly, this might be a little too much. I'd sarcastically say that nothing says, "perky musical", quite like childhood poverty and starvation, but this film came out only three years after "The Sound of Music", so the idea of turning the rise of Nazism into a musical was still fresh in people's minds, I reckon because the premiere of that film was about halfway through when this film came out. Oh, dude, a noir musical would be awesome, with moody jazz numbers and whatnot (Oh yeah, that sounds really exciting), but no, for the guy who did "The Third Man", the closest thing you get to that is a starring role for Ron Moody. Carol Reed, a master of noir, takes on "Oliver Twist", so, naturally, this is going to be intense and bleakly colorless. ![]()
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