I am glad everybody that has reviewed the film so far has enjoyed it. Unfortunately, I did not. Not that there was anything wrong with the film itself. Far from it. The thing that spoiled it for me was the music! Some late silents had a musical score added to it, such as Joan Crawford's "Our Dancing Daughters/Modern Maidens" series. And a fun bouncing '20's score, to enhance the flapper theme of the film, it was! Evidently "The Patsy" had no such score attached. So naturally, for the sake of modern audiences, someone had to add one. But why the angst-riven post-modern dissonant cacophony for a film about a Roaring Twenties flapper??! It's as if they had dubbed "The Wizard of Oz" with Philip Glass!
As a matter of fact, a TCM special about the life and career of Marion Davies has a clip of "The Patsy" accompanied by a rollicking '20's recording of "There Ain't No Maybe In My Baby's Eyes," which complimented the fun of the film and Marion's antics perfectly. But no! The actual version TCM puts on screen moves the spirit of the Holocaust two decades ahead!! Why? Why? Why?
I think it's high time TCM stopped hiring these hack musicians that want to put their stamp and their personal statement on silent masterpieces that suit their own self-absorbed whims, and hire real composers that write for the film - instead of for themselves. Or else, just add actual recordings from the 1920's that would suit such films as did the TCM Marion Davies special.
Maybe I'm going overboard and being a bit provocative, but such disrespect for painstakingly restored masterpieces renders me apoplectic, and I think it should rile a few other fans as well. Someone tell TCM to STOP destroying beautiful silent films with stupid-sounding sound!!!!
As a matter of fact, a TCM special about the life and career of Marion Davies has a clip of "The Patsy" accompanied by a rollicking '20's recording of "There Ain't No Maybe In My Baby's Eyes," which complimented the fun of the film and Marion's antics perfectly. But no! The actual version TCM puts on screen moves the spirit of the Holocaust two decades ahead!! Why? Why? Why?
I think it's high time TCM stopped hiring these hack musicians that want to put their stamp and their personal statement on silent masterpieces that suit their own self-absorbed whims, and hire real composers that write for the film - instead of for themselves. Or else, just add actual recordings from the 1920's that would suit such films as did the TCM Marion Davies special.
Maybe I'm going overboard and being a bit provocative, but such disrespect for painstakingly restored masterpieces renders me apoplectic, and I think it should rile a few other fans as well. Someone tell TCM to STOP destroying beautiful silent films with stupid-sounding sound!!!!