I watched this movie recently. I am still trying to get my head around it. Is it a work of genius, or the ramblings of an insane film maker, or just an example of really bad cinema? I submit, for your examination, the words to one of the songs in the film:
Everything is food, food, food
Everything is food to go
Everything is food for thought
Everything you knead is dough
It is food
Everything is food
Everything is meat, meat, meat
Careful what you put on your feet
Once it lived on an animule
Now it walks along with you
It could be food
Everything is food
Everything is chow chow chow
Everything is food to go now
Everything is fast food chains
From your lemon to your sugar cane
It is food
Everything is food
Everything is upside down
Everything is sunny side up
It's ubiquitous
Enigmatic and
They can't trick us
With no hot dogmatic
It is food
Everything is food
What on earth are they singing about? Is this an experiment in metaphysical mysticism, or again, the mad ramblings of an insane writer? Is the film a commentary on the sad fate of man, and his potential to improve himself, or is it a mishmash of loosely connected plot points that make no sense to anyone? Your input is greatly appreciated in this matter. :)
On the personal front, a week from today is the 32nd anniversary of my arrival on this planet. Has it been that long? I can't believe that.
Nothing else for today.
Rowed 8 hors, due to bad sleeps.
The monkey is, well, just that.
m.g-sm
1 comment:
The song is used during a scene in which the cafe is opening, and everyone is going to eat. This song does not appear on the soundtrack album, but it is one of my favorites.
Popeye is a flawed movie with some really great moments. Unfortunately you have to be very familiar with the original Thimble Theater comic strip to really understand the plot and characters. For example, Bill Irwin plays a character called Ham Gravy, but you wouldn't know that unless you read the closing credits. Even then you wouldn't know that he was Olive Oyl's fiance before Bluto, which is why he is singled out to be squashed at the engagement party.
Bob Altman's free-form, episodic style of directing does not serve this type of story well. He did much better with Nashville and M*A*S*H, which were wholly original.
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