forestine
whoa, synth legend Suzanne Ciani did the score for this! #TheIncredibleShrinkingWoman #comedon
this makes sense because Ciani did a lot of advertising scores and this movie is full of jingles for fake products. perfect choice in fact.
Here's her advertising playlist
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CchYT2lUR6o&list=PLJPztq7aAo9zR17frOo6-SUuzsmDWcDaw
Suzanne Ciani - Columbia Pictures Introduction Logo
well i didn't see anyone else at the watch party but:
- Ciani score
- Pointed commentary
- When she's on Mike Douglas and she says before she shrunk, nobody listened to her, and then they cut to commercial instead of letting her speak
- Lily Tomlin rules
- Pastel colour blocked everything
- Tiny Lily Tomlin smoking a huge cigarette
recommended
#TheIncredibleShrinkingWoman #comedon
greenpepper22@forestine im glad it was a good watch! I’ll have to get to it tomorrow or over the weekend
I would’ve normally been there but I work remotely and the chances to actually meet some people I work with in person are pretty rare so I figured I should show up
The Other Brook@greenpepper22 @forestine I need to watch it too but unsettled life is unsettled. Glad someone did, and especially glad to see the Suzanne Ciani appreciation. Hearing the score is one of the reasons I need to see it.
@theotherbrook @greenpepper22 yes, please report back when you have seen it
@forestine @theotherbrook it’s been a couple weeks but I finally got around to watching this. I do love lily tomlin in it, and ya the theme of her getting smaller and people pay less and less attention shows pretty strong
Personally I’m not really a fan of stuff steeped in 80s culture, and that’s also really strong in the film. So it’s good, but not for me. Idk if it’s really much of a comedy but I’m assuming the gorilla stuff used to hit a lot harder on that note
@greenpepper22 @theotherbrook yeah i get that. i didn't really laugh very much but for feminism, aesthetic, and suzanne ciani reasons i really liked it
@forestine @theotherbrook oh ya, like it’s a solid film, and what I think is the artist message is well done, I just think it was made to be watched in 1981
Still tho, can’t be mad about lily tomlin getting a chance to shine
@greenpepper22 @forestine I still haven't made time to watch it, but I gotta do that. Your comment about it being made to watch in 1981 got me thinking about the first show I worked when I got hired as the sound engineer at a small theatre. (Where I learned theatre people in the US always spell it "theatre" when it's like people on stage doing plays and "theater" when it's anything else. The rules may be different in Canada.)
Anyway, that first show was a staging of the 1985 one-woman show "The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe" by Jane Wagner, which Lily Tomlin performed on Broadway. It's a good show, and she would have been great in it. (There's a movie version I haven't seen.)
But we were doing it in 1991. I'd been out of college for two years, and the material already felt dated. I love social satire but the problem with it is that often when it's done really well it's so of its time that it ages quickly. And there was a huge generational shift happening in feminism right then which I maybe am not qualified to talk about, but I was very much at ground zero for part of it. The way feminism was expressed by women in my peer group was really different from how it was being expressed just a few years earlier.
(As an aside about Suzanne Ciani, there's a clip of her on David Letterman's short-lived morning show that sometimes pops up. I actually watched that live in a hotel room in John Day, Oregon.)
@theotherbrook @greenpepper22 oh yeah feminism changed a lot in that time. kinda comparable to internet years in terms of how that would have aged
i love that letterman clip. she's got a prophet five and some kinda vocoder