Their Toeses Are Roses
March 17, 2024 2:01 AM Subscribe
About "DonOConnor" in the tags: does anyone call him anything but "Donald O'Connor"?
posted by pracowity at 5:36 AM on March 17 [3 favorites]
posted by pracowity at 5:36 AM on March 17 [3 favorites]
oh I love this! Yep, they got it.
It invites a thing that one can also do with the original movie -- count the cuts so you can see how hardcore the dancers actually are!
posted by humbug at 6:30 AM on March 17 [8 favorites]
It invites a thing that one can also do with the original movie -- count the cuts so you can see how hardcore the dancers actually are!
posted by humbug at 6:30 AM on March 17 [8 favorites]
This is great. Thanks for posting!
posted by EvaDestruction at 6:51 AM on March 17
posted by EvaDestruction at 6:51 AM on March 17
About "DonOConnor" in the tags: does anyone call him anything but "Donald O'Connor"?
QFT & fixed
posted by chavenet at 6:51 AM on March 17 [3 favorites]
QFT & fixed
posted by chavenet at 6:51 AM on March 17 [3 favorites]
This was FABULOUS!
posted by MiraK at 7:01 AM on March 17 [1 favorite]
posted by MiraK at 7:01 AM on March 17 [1 favorite]
I appreciate their love of one of my favorite movie scenes, and wish I could do something like this myself.
posted by Well I never at 8:28 AM on March 17 [2 favorites]
posted by Well I never at 8:28 AM on March 17 [2 favorites]
So delightful!
posted by merriment at 8:30 AM on March 17 [1 favorite]
posted by merriment at 8:30 AM on March 17 [1 favorite]
So so so good. Reminds me of the time Jonathan Groff learned Sutton Foster's choreography for the overly long tap break from Anything Goes. (youtube link)
posted by Pickman's Next Top Model at 8:30 AM on March 17 [8 favorites]
posted by Pickman's Next Top Model at 8:30 AM on March 17 [8 favorites]
I have this very very broad-strokes, probably-wrong theory that making movies used to be a necessary sacrifice for showing actors, and nowadays paying actors is a necessary sacrifice for showing movies. Movies were vessels for people who had very specific skills, which people would go to the cinema specifically to watch.
This theory probably falls apart under the slightly scrutiny, but the dancing sure is a glorious spectacle.
posted by one for the books at 11:22 AM on March 17 [5 favorites]
This theory probably falls apart under the slightly scrutiny, but the dancing sure is a glorious spectacle.
posted by one for the books at 11:22 AM on March 17 [5 favorites]
I appreciated the long shots of the dancing. That's a thing we don't see much anymore, and feels rare and exciting when it happens.
one for the books, you've stated a thing that I think I agree with. We truly did used to make movies in order to show off people's talents to do extraordinary things, and these days we just find beautiful people and put them in stories so we can look at them. It's a giant difference in why people were cast back then as compared to now.
Anyway, I'm glad I watched this, and thank you for posting!
posted by hippybear at 11:40 AM on March 17 [2 favorites]
one for the books, you've stated a thing that I think I agree with. We truly did used to make movies in order to show off people's talents to do extraordinary things, and these days we just find beautiful people and put them in stories so we can look at them. It's a giant difference in why people were cast back then as compared to now.
Anyway, I'm glad I watched this, and thank you for posting!
posted by hippybear at 11:40 AM on March 17 [2 favorites]
chavenet and especiall Pickman's Next Top Model : you are terrible, terrible people. You have no idea what kind of an Internet rabbit hole I've just emerged from thanks to your posts. I was supposed to be working today (yes, even though it's the weekend). I've got two assignments to complete today. One should have been done already. It's not. You're both very, very bad.
posted by sardonyx at 11:48 AM on March 17 [2 favorites]
posted by sardonyx at 11:48 AM on March 17 [2 favorites]
Oh goodness, yes, that Sutton Foster number and Jonathan Groff's dedication to recreating it... that's exactly what this reminds me of! Wonderful.
posted by MiraK at 12:17 PM on March 17 [1 favorite]
posted by MiraK at 12:17 PM on March 17 [1 favorite]
I appreciated the long shots of the dancing. That's a thing we don't see much anymore, and feels rare and exciting when it happens.
I really hated the movie Chicago for this reason.
I will say, they did the long shots but they fudged a lot of the footwork. And some of the things that were a little off or sloppy, like the position of their arms at various points, really drive home how precise O'Connor and Kelly are in that number, both individually and with their amazing unison. O'Connor and Kelly have such great charisma in Singin' in the Rain, and O'Connor almost outshines Kelly in this number. I wish they'd done a couple hundred more song-and-dance movies together.
posted by Well I never at 1:25 PM on March 17 [10 favorites]
I really hated the movie Chicago for this reason.
I will say, they did the long shots but they fudged a lot of the footwork. And some of the things that were a little off or sloppy, like the position of their arms at various points, really drive home how precise O'Connor and Kelly are in that number, both individually and with their amazing unison. O'Connor and Kelly have such great charisma in Singin' in the Rain, and O'Connor almost outshines Kelly in this number. I wish they'd done a couple hundred more song-and-dance movies together.
posted by Well I never at 1:25 PM on March 17 [10 favorites]
This happened to me any my friends too! Only the movie was Bande à part, and the scene was this.
we got pretty good at it!
posted by phooky at 1:25 PM on March 17 [3 favorites]
we got pretty good at it!
posted by phooky at 1:25 PM on March 17 [3 favorites]
(a) Gentlemen, do not be fooled: telling your lady she looks a lot like Donald O'Connor will not lead to a lot of vigorous sweaty action with her; and
(b) DO "MAKE 'EM LAUGH" NEXT, YOU COWARDS
...seriously, very cute.
posted by praemunire at 2:18 PM on March 17 [7 favorites]
(b) DO "MAKE 'EM LAUGH" NEXT, YOU COWARDS
...seriously, very cute.
posted by praemunire at 2:18 PM on March 17 [7 favorites]
So so so good. Reminds me of the time Jonathan Groff learned Sutton Foster's choreography for the overly long tap break from Anything Goes.
That's like a visual definition of good ... better ... great ... incredible in one 8 minute tap dancing extravaganza (with ass, ass ... ass!)
posted by chavenet at 2:30 PM on March 17 [1 favorite]
That's like a visual definition of good ... better ... great ... incredible in one 8 minute tap dancing extravaganza (with ass, ass ... ass!)
posted by chavenet at 2:30 PM on March 17 [1 favorite]
Moses supposes his toeses are roses? In my diagnoses, Moses may suffer from psychoses.
posted by Ursula Hitler at 2:50 PM on March 17 [4 favorites]
posted by Ursula Hitler at 2:50 PM on March 17 [4 favorites]
Ursula Hitler: except that the song tells us in the very next line that Moses he knowses his toeses aren't roses!
His supposing his toeses are roses is clearly, in context, a daydream or flight of fancy, not a serious break with reality. In this essay i will...
posted by adrienneleigh at 3:14 PM on March 17 [4 favorites]
His supposing his toeses are roses is clearly, in context, a daydream or flight of fancy, not a serious break with reality. In this essay i will...
posted by adrienneleigh at 3:14 PM on March 17 [4 favorites]
Moses's noses are set off by roses but Jesus he sneezes whenever he pleases
posted by phooky at 3:51 PM on March 17 [5 favorites]
posted by phooky at 3:51 PM on March 17 [5 favorites]
No thread about Singin' in the Rain is complete without
"an' I kian't STAN'um."
Jean Hagen's another one who should have done a hundred more comedies.
posted by humbug at 3:59 PM on March 17 [8 favorites]
"an' I kian't STAN'um."
Jean Hagen's another one who should have done a hundred more comedies.
posted by humbug at 3:59 PM on March 17 [8 favorites]
Best guess, this is probably the video original Groff mentions. Sutton Foster is a force of nature. Also, Joel Grey!
posted by Pickman's Next Top Model at 4:28 PM on March 17 [1 favorite]
posted by Pickman's Next Top Model at 4:28 PM on March 17 [1 favorite]
I love the tap dancing, but the lyrics are so cringe it takes away from how much I enjoy the scene. I’m not expecting Sondheim or anything, the words are just asinine.
posted by pxe2000 at 4:29 PM on March 17 [1 favorite]
posted by pxe2000 at 4:29 PM on March 17 [1 favorite]
I think that's kind of the point -- they're making fun of elocution coaches and the asinine phrases they make students practice with.
posted by slappy_pinchbottom at 4:38 PM on March 17 [8 favorites]
posted by slappy_pinchbottom at 4:38 PM on March 17 [8 favorites]
The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain.
posted by hippybear at 4:41 PM on March 17 [1 favorite]
posted by hippybear at 4:41 PM on March 17 [1 favorite]
they're making fun of elocution coaches and the asinine phrases they make students practice with
Yes--you can see the "mouth diagrams" on the wall. They're visiting a coach because the movies are transitioning to talkies.
Otherwise, of course, a nonsense-song would be intolerable. We must maintain the standard of "Bibbety-bobbety-boo" and "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!"
posted by praemunire at 5:48 PM on March 17 [5 favorites]
Yes--you can see the "mouth diagrams" on the wall. They're visiting a coach because the movies are transitioning to talkies.
Otherwise, of course, a nonsense-song would be intolerable. We must maintain the standard of "Bibbety-bobbety-boo" and "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!"
posted by praemunire at 5:48 PM on March 17 [5 favorites]
(b) DO "MAKE 'EM LAUGH" NEXT, YOU COWARDS
Do you have any idea how banged up I got as a kid from trying to teach myself how to run up the wall and flip? Just remembering makes my back hurt.
posted by nickmark at 8:48 PM on March 17 [6 favorites]
Hmph, sounds like a skill issue to me. ;)
posted by praemunire at 8:52 PM on March 17 [1 favorite]
posted by praemunire at 8:52 PM on March 17 [1 favorite]
His supposing his toeses are roses is clearly, in context, a daydream or flight of fancy, not a serious break with reality.
I believe this poor man is experiencing profound confusion about the nature of reality. Moses supposes his toes have undergone a metamorphoses into roses, even as, on some level, he knowses nobody's toeses are roses. You may question my diagnoses of psychoses, but I proposes hypnoses to address Moses' neuroses.
posted by Ursula Hitler at 11:01 PM on March 17 [8 favorites]
I believe this poor man is experiencing profound confusion about the nature of reality. Moses supposes his toes have undergone a metamorphoses into roses, even as, on some level, he knowses nobody's toeses are roses. You may question my diagnoses of psychoses, but I proposes hypnoses to address Moses' neuroses.
posted by Ursula Hitler at 11:01 PM on March 17 [8 favorites]
I think rather than psychoses, it is a problem of gnoses!
posted by praemunire at 6:27 AM on March 18 [4 favorites]
posted by praemunire at 6:27 AM on March 18 [4 favorites]
Do you have any idea how banged up I got as a kid from trying to teach myself how to run up the wall and flip? Just remembering makes my back hurt.
Now imagine that you were also smoking four packs of cigarettes a day; O'Connor literally spent three days on bed rest after shooting "Make 'Em Laugh" because of its demands on his endurance.
posted by Strange Interlude at 8:18 AM on March 18 [2 favorites]
Now imagine that you were also smoking four packs of cigarettes a day; O'Connor literally spent three days on bed rest after shooting "Make 'Em Laugh" because of its demands on his endurance.
posted by Strange Interlude at 8:18 AM on March 18 [2 favorites]
This is delightful. Also it is an excuse to share this: Gotta film dance! The evolution of the movie musical
posted by girandole at 11:30 AM on March 18 [3 favorites]
posted by girandole at 11:30 AM on March 18 [3 favorites]
Viewsync link to watch side-by-side. I didn’t get it perfect, but it’s pretty close.
(Hit play on each video, and once they buffer, hit the main play button at the bottom)
Very cool, thanks OP!
posted by LEGO Damashii at 5:16 PM on March 22
(Hit play on each video, and once they buffer, hit the main play button at the bottom)
Very cool, thanks OP!
posted by LEGO Damashii at 5:16 PM on March 22
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