Lord of the Dance
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enismirdalAfter the many many hours of happy joy I got from watching and, amazingly, rewatching Riverdance, I decided I may as well go and get more of the same for some variety, and ordered myself Lord of the Dance.
I watched it with my Elves, especially Rávo, who is a complete Irish dancing freak and can't get enough of the stuff. Oh, we laughed! How we laughed!
I hereby rename Lord of the Dance The Michael Flatley P3nis Show!!
Granted, he is a fantastic dancer, and he really knows how to hold the audience and perform on stage with charisma. But it begs for Rocky Horror style audience participation, it really does!
Seriously, the whole thing beginning to end was an ego-stroke for Flatley. A lot of it seemed to be testosterone-soaked self-aggrandisement. Sometimes it was sort of dashing but most of the time it was corny. When the lights dim and a distinctive drum beat plays, every time you know he's going to appear, high kicks and all... And a lot of him prancing around saving the day and sort of looking like every other dancer was a humble minion - the former point admittedly being kind of the plot, and the latter being quite true, but nonethess it seemed a bit too overdone for all but the most obsessed fans.
And then there was the Evil Fairy Munchkin. I know she was credited as "The Little Spirit" and we were meant to think she was good and cute and nice. But she was SCARY! And she played the SAME SONG on her spangly flute every time. I pointed and laughed and cheered when the evil guys snapped the annoying spangly flute. It shut her up for like a whole 10 minutes!
The Morrighan I liked. Cos she was hot. And sexy. And a good dancer. Equally, the bit where all the women took their dresses off and danced in bras and tights was HOT! I loved the energy in the fight scenes too, and the overall effect of them - but for some reason I find myself irked when the dancers grab hold of each other and push and shove each other in fights. It seems...messy, somehow. Since the whole dance itself is a metaphor anyway, I don't see why they need literal pseudo-violence. I think it would be perfectly possible to communicate the conflict through dance without ever even needing to touch each other pseudo-aggressively.
Conversely, I am all in favour of lots of groping during romance scenes!
The music was nice and dynamic, though I got REALLY sick of the chorus of Lord of the Dance over and over again (not least because we used to sing the religious version in church, and because it was the theme tune to some set of stories about some mice that I used to listen to on cassettes from the library when I was really tiny...).
In conclusion: I'm glad I bought it, and probably will watch some of the sequences again plenty, but Riverdance was far superior. My intention now is to buy Dancing on Dangerous Ground and avoid Feet of Flames. Rávo emphatically agrees with me.
I watched it with my Elves, especially Rávo, who is a complete Irish dancing freak and can't get enough of the stuff. Oh, we laughed! How we laughed!
I hereby rename Lord of the Dance The Michael Flatley P3nis Show!!
Granted, he is a fantastic dancer, and he really knows how to hold the audience and perform on stage with charisma. But it begs for Rocky Horror style audience participation, it really does!
Seriously, the whole thing beginning to end was an ego-stroke for Flatley. A lot of it seemed to be testosterone-soaked self-aggrandisement. Sometimes it was sort of dashing but most of the time it was corny. When the lights dim and a distinctive drum beat plays, every time you know he's going to appear, high kicks and all... And a lot of him prancing around saving the day and sort of looking like every other dancer was a humble minion - the former point admittedly being kind of the plot, and the latter being quite true, but nonethess it seemed a bit too overdone for all but the most obsessed fans.
And then there was the Evil Fairy Munchkin. I know she was credited as "The Little Spirit" and we were meant to think she was good and cute and nice. But she was SCARY! And she played the SAME SONG on her spangly flute every time. I pointed and laughed and cheered when the evil guys snapped the annoying spangly flute. It shut her up for like a whole 10 minutes!
The Morrighan I liked. Cos she was hot. And sexy. And a good dancer. Equally, the bit where all the women took their dresses off and danced in bras and tights was HOT! I loved the energy in the fight scenes too, and the overall effect of them - but for some reason I find myself irked when the dancers grab hold of each other and push and shove each other in fights. It seems...messy, somehow. Since the whole dance itself is a metaphor anyway, I don't see why they need literal pseudo-violence. I think it would be perfectly possible to communicate the conflict through dance without ever even needing to touch each other pseudo-aggressively.
Conversely, I am all in favour of lots of groping during romance scenes!
The music was nice and dynamic, though I got REALLY sick of the chorus of Lord of the Dance over and over again (not least because we used to sing the religious version in church, and because it was the theme tune to some set of stories about some mice that I used to listen to on cassettes from the library when I was really tiny...).
In conclusion: I'm glad I bought it, and probably will watch some of the sequences again plenty, but Riverdance was far superior. My intention now is to buy Dancing on Dangerous Ground and avoid Feet of Flames. Rávo emphatically agrees with me.
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Date: 11 Mar 2006 04:52 (UTC)HA! That got my attention... heh. I remember the Lord of the Dance routine that Mike Meyers (aka Wayne of Wayne's World) did at the beginning of one of the Video Music Awards.. I almost choked laughing...