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Brigadoon (1954: Vincente Minnelli)

 
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 2:18 pm    Post subject: Brigadoon (1954: Vincente Minnelli) Reply with quote
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New Yorker Gene Kelly gets lost in the Highlands, stumbles upon a village that appears only once every 100 years and falls for one of the villagers, signing "Almost Like Being in Love" along the way. He returns to America, but ultimately love brings him back to Brigadoon. Producer Arthur Freed shot his musical on an MGM soundstage in Hollywood after touring Scotland and failing to find any locations Scottish enough for his requirements. On the face of it this seems outrageous, but his failure to find Brigadoon in Scotland really is the whole point of the film - Brigadoon is Scotland the Fantasy and can exist only in the imagination and in Hollywood. It is escapism in a very literal sense.

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PostPosted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 7:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Brigadoon 1954


Not so sure this is as Scottish as you think?
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The first Cinemascope musical...totally filmed on an indoor set!
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Where was it filmed though?

I would be surprised if it were anywhere near Scotland, maybe America?
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 03, 2008 6:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
In a Hollywood Studio!
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Aye, well it can't be very Scottish then  
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