A few frames only
Feb. 26th, 2008 10:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thisnewdayJust watched a few frames of "The Fabulous Baker Boys." It's the scene near the end where Susie Diamond (Michelle Pfeiffer) finds Frank Baker (Jeff Bridges) sitting in with the jazz trio at a black bar. She sees, firsthand, what he's managed to suppress through all the wasted years of playing motel lounges for people who had no interest in the music. She spends the night at his apartment and then tells him, as she's leaving, that she's quitting the act to do advertising vocals.
I watched it long enough to get to that, long enough to hear the smokey, after-hours jazz, the really good stuff on this Dave Grusin soundtrack. And then I turned it off, knowing that what comes next is the confrontation, the coming apart, the melodrama. Having been in that movie, as well as having seen this one, I know that's what comes next.
I turned it off despite knowing that the resolution of such conflicts is what moves the plot, makes the story complete, and in the end turns their lives towards the same hope that she'd heard in his music. But I didn't have it in me to wait for that, only wanted to hear the music, to know that his talent might, at long last, be given over to his art...
I watched it long enough to get to that, long enough to hear the smokey, after-hours jazz, the really good stuff on this Dave Grusin soundtrack. And then I turned it off, knowing that what comes next is the confrontation, the coming apart, the melodrama. Having been in that movie, as well as having seen this one, I know that's what comes next.
I turned it off despite knowing that the resolution of such conflicts is what moves the plot, makes the story complete, and in the end turns their lives towards the same hope that she'd heard in his music. But I didn't have it in me to wait for that, only wanted to hear the music, to know that his talent might, at long last, be given over to his art...
