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Copying Beethoven
Sep. 1st, 2007 10:53 pmI admit I cry easily over movies, but, oh man! Now that I'm done bawling, I might even sound coherent or not.
Dorkboy knows I'm not a movie watcher. I mean, he couldn't help noticing over the 22 years we've been together, lol. But he also knows that very occasionally, I like to see a movie if the subject matter is my cup of tea. Years ago, he found Mr Holland's Opus for me, and I still love that movie.
Tonight, he went to get some groceries and came back, telling me he brought a movie for me to watch from Blockbusters. Sara was slightly more helpful, saying, "It's something to do with Beethoven." I looked at the title, "Copying Beethoven," and vaguely remembered reading about it a few months ago. So we sat down and watched. Oh my! If you like sarcasm, if you like historical, if you like Beethoven, then go and watch that movie! If you find you don't like it at the beginning, then fast forward to the premiere of the Ninth Symphony, and you will like it if not love it.
It's a love story that isn't a love story because it's platonic and yet it isn't. Beethoven is portrayed as a messy, sarcastic, genius bastard, and I love him because he tells it how he sees it and it's just wonderful.Fanon!Snape, anyone? A young woman who studies composition and lives at the convent more or less bullies her way to becoming his copyist. She admires him for his musical genius, copes well with his sarcasm, and when he tells her to fight back instead of being meek, she does so admirably. This is the year 1825 we're talking about, btw, when everyone laughed at females wanting to do anything but marry and have children.
The premier is his ninth absolutely tore me apart. Anna the young lady agrees to help him conduct and she sits between the orchestra where he can see her and does the hand movements he then copies. You hear this most beautiful music and see the orchestra with her sitting on the floor somewhere in the middle, and the camera switches between her surrounded by the orchestra and Beethoven conducting.
It's the kind of movie that makes me consider investing in a surround sound system and huge TV, srsly.
Dorkboy knows I'm not a movie watcher. I mean, he couldn't help noticing over the 22 years we've been together, lol. But he also knows that very occasionally, I like to see a movie if the subject matter is my cup of tea. Years ago, he found Mr Holland's Opus for me, and I still love that movie.
Tonight, he went to get some groceries and came back, telling me he brought a movie for me to watch from Blockbusters. Sara was slightly more helpful, saying, "It's something to do with Beethoven." I looked at the title, "Copying Beethoven," and vaguely remembered reading about it a few months ago. So we sat down and watched. Oh my! If you like sarcasm, if you like historical, if you like Beethoven, then go and watch that movie! If you find you don't like it at the beginning, then fast forward to the premiere of the Ninth Symphony, and you will like it if not love it.
It's a love story that isn't a love story because it's platonic and yet it isn't. Beethoven is portrayed as a messy, sarcastic, genius bastard, and I love him because he tells it how he sees it and it's just wonderful.
The premier is his ninth absolutely tore me apart. Anna the young lady agrees to help him conduct and she sits between the orchestra where he can see her and does the hand movements he then copies. You hear this most beautiful music and see the orchestra with her sitting on the floor somewhere in the middle, and the camera switches between her surrounded by the orchestra and Beethoven conducting.
It's the kind of movie that makes me consider investing in a surround sound system and huge TV, srsly.
