Can Someone Help Me Understand Johnny Guitar?

The two women are really lestastic and want to lap on each other's ladyhams.

Johnny Guitar was adapted into a stage musical, which debuted Off-Broadway in 2004, with a book by American television producer Nicholas van Hoogstraten, lyrics by Joel Higgins, and music by Martin Silvestri and Joel Higgins......anyone know anything about this production?

It’s a thinly veiled commentary on HUAC and McCarthyism. Check out Sterling Hayden’s bio. It’s also a truly subversive (in the best sense of the word) film. To truly appreciate it, research the era.

I'm going to kill you.

This, and her blackface number from Torch Song is why we love Joan.

So is there some homoerotic undertone that makes it even more subversive in the McCarthy era?

Movies exist so that scenes like this could be filmed: a mob of cowboys, led by Mercedes McCambridge, storms in to find . . . Joan Crawford in a long white dress, playing the piano with steely determination. It defies explanation or analysis.

It could use a little more cow bell.

This just came out. Have at it OP.

[quote]In 1996, I sat in the fifth row of the Metropolitan Opera as Jessye Norman sang the starring role in Leoš Janáček’s “The Makropulos Case,” and, as she sang a climactic passage, I felt as if I could actually feel my eardrums vibrating with the focussed volume and pure pitch. Nothing else in movies, beside Crawford’s acting in this scene, gives me that same feeling.

One "Oh, dear" for the "foccused." And a big ole "MARY" for the content.

It is visually and thematically LURID. It's surreal and hyperbolic. It's color noir western thriller. The French structuralists like it, just as with sick and American film noir, because it works on many levels and is overdetermined. So it has distance from it's plot and characters, though they are gripping enough to hold interest on their own. It's perverse but not vulgar, and the French love perversion.

just as they like SIRK (spellcheck - not "sick")

Seems like our Joan hit a double into left field with Johnny Guitar and Torch Song. Wait, I just thought of this. Why Johnny Guitar, the Opera with Jessye Norman

Jessye Norman died in 2019, r12.

[quote] Johnny Guitar was adapted into a stage musical, which debuted Off-Broadway in 2004, with a book by American television producer Nicholas van Hoogstraten, lyrics by Joel Higgins, and music by Martin Silvestri and Joel Higgins......anyone know anything about this production?

Wow, the father from Silver Spoons co-wrote it?

This is why I love DL. I learn something new every day.

And R13 that was a joke

The movie needed more Turkey.

Did Joan fuck the guitar?