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...bored, but if the movie were to suddenly stop, you probably wouldn’t notice. “Little” tries way too hard to espouse the “Shrek” mode of contemporary ironic detachment from traditional cartoons. We begin with a riff on how to start a fairy tale, including a faux “Lion King” opening, as if Disney felt like taking self-effacing shots at the Mouse, ala the Dream Works monopoly. The tragedy of “Little” is that Disney was so close. The amazing...
...right notes of cheeky camp, boasting tone-appropriate choreography and performances, especially by Charlie I. Miller ’08, who strikes the perfect note of slightly-weary debauchery as Frank-N-Furter, and David J. Andersson ’09 who slithers and hisses around as Riff Raff, the put-upon servant...
...Eight minutes long, it has an inherent majesty that initially expresses itself in the song’s languid tempo. Reminiscent of Icelandic dronesters Sigur Ros in its grandeur, “Dondante” builds until James’ voice drops out and a guitar plays a mellow riff-based solo. At the 3:29 mark, light drum hits set up a truly breath-taking vocalization of deceptively simple words: “You had me worried/so worried that this would last.” James’ ragged voice is so captivatingly emotional that just that one line...
...show. "He's very spontaneous," Lane says of his co-star. "He's more improvisational than he gives himself credit for. I very often have forced him into it. I ask him questions as Marlon Brando, or as one of these characters that he does. He can really riff, once he gets into the character...
Isaac, the talented lead guitarist responsible for creating the infectious opening riff for “Mmmbop” says, “I really don’t know how to get beyond [that label] except to continually be myself...