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The Saddest Music in the World is a 2003 Canadian film directed by Guy Maddin, starring Isabella Rossellini and Mark McKinney.Set in Winnipeg during The Great Depression, a legless baroness host a contest for the saddest music in the world, with a grand prize of $25,000. During the assembly of contestants a father and his two sons; one who thinks he's an American, one who is succumbing to madness over the death of his son and his ex-lovers nymphomaniac tendencies and the father a pathetic drunkard who fucks everything up. Their unique dynamics with the beer-baroness and tragedy bring these characters together to express their deep feelings of pain and give in to treachery.This film marked the beginning of a years-long collaborative partnership between Maddin and Rossellini, who made several more films together. |
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Pardon Me Stewardess, I Speak Iambic Pentameter: The title "The Saddest Music in the World" is an example of iambic tetrameter (four feet, each going from an unstressed syllable to stressed). |
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Still Wearing the Old Colors |
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Still Wearing the Old Colors: Fyodor still wears his uniform from the great war. |
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Soft Water: Averted. Fyodor dies falling through the glass roof into the beer pool. |
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Green-Eyed Monster |
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Green-Eyed Monster: Roderick, seeing his wife with Chester. |
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Liquid Courage |
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Liquid Courage: Fyodor Kent takes a nip from his flask before sawing off Helen's (wrong) leg. |
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Empty Shell |
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Empty Shell: Roderick. He never recovered from having gone through a Despair Event Horizon after his son died and his wife left in the aftermath. |
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Right Through the Wall |
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Right Through the Wall: Fyodor and Roderick walk in to hear Chester making loud sex noises while getting it on with Narcissa upstairs. |
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Trash the Set |
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Trash the Set: Fyodor trashes his studio towards the end out of frustration. |
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Bookends |
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Bookends: The Fortune Teller from the beginning is shown again laughing at Chester's demise in the final scene. |
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Creator Thumbprint |
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Creator Thumbprint: Winnipeg (Guy Maddin's hometome) as a setting. |
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Combat Commentator |
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Combat Commentator: The two commentators at the music contest. |
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Missing Mom |
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Missing Mom: Minor plot point. In a flashback at the Fortune Teller's we learn that Chester's mom died when he was still a child. |
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Retraux |
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Retraux: The "silent film" look is Guy Maddin's Creator Thumbprint. |
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Motifs: Death and intense emotions seem to coincide with the breaking of glass. The jar holding the son's heart breaking, the father breaking through a pane of glass and falling to his death/drowns in beer, the legs breaking, Chester being stabbed by a shard of glass. |
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Convection, Schmonvection |
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Convection, Schmonvection: Chester has no problem playing the piano sitting in a room on fire. |
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Glass-Shattering Sound |
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Glass-Shattering Sound: Roderick creates a high pitched sound with his cello that makes Helen's glass legs break. |
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Time-Compression Montage |
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Time-Compression Montage: The passage of the music contest is compressed in a couple of key shots juxtaposed with music sheets as Spinning Papers. |
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Deliberately Monochrome |
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Deliberately Monochrome: The movie was shot on black and white film to made it appear 1920/30-ish. |
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An Arm and a Leg |
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An Arm and a Leg: Helen, who lost her legs in a car accident. |
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Global Ignorance |
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Global Ignorance: One title card announces "Canada versus Africa". |
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Crystal Ball |
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Crystal Ball: In the opening scene the Fortune Teller uses a block of ice as a crystal ball. |
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Chekhov M.I.A. |
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Chekhov M.I.A.: Roderick asks his father if he has seen his missing wife and sure enough she turns out to be Chester's current lover. |
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