Flower Drum Song Movie Review
I just watched it for the first time in 25 years or so and i still enjoy the dancing and beautiful set design.
Flower drum song movie review. Some of the more memorable songs. As a film it emerges a curiously unaffecting unstable and rather. Flower drum song is a fantasy about a quaint cute generational conflict.
The film was a pop culture phenomenon reviewed in major papers. Not their best musical that honor must go to the king and i but a very enjoyable film for the whole family. As a film it emerges a curiously unaffecting unstable and rather.
The worst is the song and dance number during the parade scene and the dream sequence dance. Its characters are flat and the film showcases an obviously studio built chinatown. A hundred million miracles and i enjoy being a girl will be stuck in your head after viewing.
Flower drum song has been overwhelmed by the sheer opulence and glamour with which ross hunter has translated it to the screen. I ve seen some reviews that say the songs are not catchy but i beg to differ. The best thing about this is the flower drum song and the actress performing it so beautifully.
Flower drum song suffers from a cutesiness typical of chinatown depictions in that period. A young woman arrives in san francisco s chinatown from hong kong with the intention of marrying a rakish nightclub owner unaware he is involved with one of his singers. Flower drum song has been overwhelmed by the sheer opulence and glamour with which ross hunter has translated it to the screen.
Even as its kids adopt baseball and rock n roll the chinatown of flower drum song is was and remains outside mainstream america. It features rodger s brassiest and jazziest score and the best choreography of any of their musicals. This move was made a long time ago and uses stereotypes of asians and american asians that might be considered offensive today.