Watching Fame for movie night. Realizing it is 40 years old. Yikes.
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P.S. everyone in this audition scene looks 27. Apparently you can do that in movies! It’s fine.
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Fame was a big hit! I warned the kids that the last 3rd would be a deluge of aggressively tragic monologues (& we FF’d thru Coco’s screen test), but I actually found it more profound & thoughtful about a performing arts career than I remembered. And the cast is wonderful.
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It’s obviously dated in a few ways, but the dance scenes are exhilarating and there’s a ton of funny stuff. The worst element is that Montgomery gets no love interest & has to be the Tragic Lonely Gay... which is especially bananas at an arts school.
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This movie was the first time I’d ever heard of Rocky Horror and I love that they show it as such an absurdly extended sequence, it’s lovely.
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Replying to @emilynussbaum
I love this movie irrationally for a lot of reasons. I’ve always especially appreciated the way it depicts the arts as a venue of opportunity for people from a variety of economic backgrounds — something missing from later similar shows like, say, SMASH
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also really enjoy how the main focus is culture as an outlet for authentic self-expression/self-discovery, rather than culture as a conduit to fame (the, er, title notwithstanding)
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Replying to @sternbergh @emilynussbaum
the notion of a bunch of kids from really disparate circumstances who are all in one way or another badly misunderstood and/or misunderstand themselves coming together and finding their weird tribes is the most moving message possible, also the soundtrack still absolutely bops
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I have fond memories of the brief lived Fame TV spinoff, although no idea how it holds up.
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It lasted six seasons! It’s dated, but nostalgic fun and the musical numbers are still



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