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Bruce Springsteen: Movie Nerd

Started by tomwatson · 11 months ago

“I still like to go out on a Saturday night and buy the popcorn and watch things explode, but when that becomes such a major part of the choices that you have, when you have 16 cinemas and 14 of them are playing almost exactly the same picture, you feel that something’% ... Continue reading »

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  • Tom Watson

    1 year ago

    Well girl you're gonna end up just another lonely ticket sold
    Cryin' alone in the theater as the credits roll

    "Be True"

    Great post, so much of Bruce has a cinematic quality. Darkness, to me, especially is very movie-like - the stripped down scenes and characters.
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  • Tom K.

    1 year ago

    *the ultimate “we gotta get out of this place if it’s the last thing we ever do” anthem.*

    Gee, I always thought that was "we gotta get out of this place if it’s the last thing we ever do". But then, I'm very literal sometimes.

    I appreciate your insights . . . had never really thought about it, but you are of course right about the cinematic quality. After 1985, I couldn't say, but up to then.
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  • wwolfe

    1 year ago

    "Wreck On the Highway." In film noirs, there's often a final scene where perspective on the story's resolution is provided by someone other than the protagonist (who's usually dead, physically or spiritually, by then). This song, with its vivid description of the title scene accompanied by the singer's appreciation of where he is, versus where the driver of that car wound up, has always reminded me of that film noir denoument. (Dave Alvin of the Blasters has always been good at this same type of "There but for the grace of God" song.)
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  • Jason Chervokas

    1 year ago

    Didn't Sean Penn actually make a film out of Highway Patrolman?

    And anybody remember when it turned out that Dylan cribbed many of the lyrics to the Empire Burlesque album from dialog in Humphrey Bogart movies?
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  • Jason Chervokas

    1 year ago

    BTW, I think Magic is Springsteen's best record since Tunnel of Love.
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  • Dan Leo

    1 year ago

    Jason, yep, Sean Penn did make that movie: The Indian Runner, AKA Not the Feel-Good Hit of the Summer.

    Followed up by The Crossing Guard, AKA Not the Feel-Good Hit of the Summer, Part II, But Featuring a Nude Scene With Kari Wuhrer.
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  • Sean Collins-Smith

    1 year ago

    I have to you missed out on Jungleland. It is the ULTIMATE film/Springsteen song to me; it is so epic and heartbreaking ("In the tunnels uptown/the rat's own dream guns him down/as shots echo down them hallways in the night")

    The whole song is just cinematic....brilliant...
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