Word: lip-synching
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This surreally cliched plot is made even more hyperbolic by the fact that it is indeed sung. All the way through. In French. To the accompaniment of a synthetic, Esquivel-esque cocktail jazz. For the English-speaking viewer, the experience of watching auto mechanics lip-synch their way through so much ear-coating ultrasynth reaches that special level of pleasurableness which is just shy of unbearable...
Wishman use her unusual filming techniques through out this exploitation classic. She made her films in lip-synch and dubbed afterwards. The majority of the time, Wishman filmed the backs of people's heads or showed the reactions of the people listening while someone is talking. Her camera follows like the eye to show the smallest, most unusual details, from the Jane's tacky jewelry to the plush red shag carpet. Her actors are not merely "m e t h o d" they are just plain bad. But it doesn't matter, you're too busy scoffing, guffawing and trying...
...most of his Glyndebourne cast of black American singers. He vividly evokes the opera's Catfish Row in swirling crowd scenes intercut with sharply detailed close-ups, in smokily languorous tableaus that erupt into brutal fights and sensual embraces. Instead of letting the performers sing, however, he has them lip-synch to a sound track of their own cast recording, issued by EMI Classics with Simon Rattle + conducting the London Philharmonic. It's a vibrant recording in its own right, but the miming shows -- and jars with the quasi-naturalistic style of Nunn's staging. And because the music seems...
Lamour's English is heavily accented, and others in the cast can barely function in English. That doesn't matter: even in the French version, the actors do not speak. They just pantomime and lip-synch to a portentous voice- over narration that calls to mind Alexander Scourby somberly narrating some war documentary. This technique enabled the show to be imported intact, and will permit performances in Spanish in Mexico City and seven U.S. cities with large Hispanic populations...
Fortunately, after a couple of hours we were picked up by the "Up With People" touring company, so everything was pretty cool. They taught us some neat songs we all could lip-synch along with, including some old Captain and Tennille tunes. We had a swell time until the peyote set in and we started to have vicious hallucinations and were forced to kill and eat "Up With People...