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Great music

posted 4 years ago by Adam60z (3766)
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By Scott Joplin who got an Oscar and Pulitzer 59 years after his death. Anyway the film itself was great for the cast and the story (based on Orson Welles 1951 radio---link below), but uneven. I mean the plot got so confusing I still don't quite get it. But one aspect that bothers me: they went to all that trouble and it all came down to one single bet? Wouldn't they do better to set up an actual OTB club rather than a fake one for one bet? I mean I get that it was to get even for Doyle (Robert Shaw) ordering the hit on Luther (Robert Earl Jones--James Earl Jones' father), but isn't it such a waste?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCg7BVyze8A

[–] liscarkat (18388) 2 years ago

I like Joplin in short doses, but two hours of him in this movie, mostly one tune repeated, becomes irritating. It was also anachronistic. By 1936, when the movie is set, Joplin's rags were three decades or more out of date, not heard much anymore, and regarded as corny pre-WWI pop fluff.