I started this post in the middle of RA training and I had a few moments during dinner and decided to watch a movie. Because it was August, I promptly fell asleep. Lucky for all of us, I saved this post in my drafts so I could post it in September!! As you continue reading, just pretend you are in an old RA training tshirt and dead tired so that it feels realistic.
Tonight I watched The Producers, the 1967 version with Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder. Before I could even enjoy this film I had to break a nail opening the case. I was also quite hungry-so of course I cried a bit from over emotionalness. Once the film started and I was having a snack things started looking up. This film is about Max Bialystock a down on his luck and broke Broadway producer who helps little old ladies find thrills for their pennies. He has an accountant Leo Bloom with a blue blanket that comes up with a brilliant money making scheme.
Have you ever seen the remake of this film with Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick? I believe it came out in 2005 or 2006 after it was on Broadway again. Well, because Mel Brooks is a genius both films are awesome. The dialog is the same and the jokes are funny in this version and that one! I love timeless films like this.
The plot of The Producers is that Bialystock and Bloom are trying to produce a flop of a show to make a quick buck. They choose the script Springtime for Hitler and found the best of the worst directors to direct the play. He adds music and dancing Hitlers to the production and the show goes on. The characters in this film make it worth a watch. They plan on raising a lot of money from investors and once the show flops they can keep the unspent money in creative accounting. Spolier alert! Their plan backfired! The play takes a turn from what is supposed to be serious tribute to the fuhrer to a comedic romp that delights audiences.
There are delightful characters in every scene in this film. It is worth a watch just to see them! The little ladies that "invest" in Max's productions are a hoot and so are the people involved in making the show happen. Well defined characters that really help tell the story and keep your attention for the whole film. I sometimes wish I was around when all of my movies were first out in the theater. There is nothing like watching a film as it debuts with a group. I can clearly remember the feelings and emotions in every Harry Potter movie I saw, the audience gasps together and jumps together when appropriate and claps at the end. I love the feeling you get in those crowds at the movies. I can just imagine what the feeling was like in watching the Producers on opening night.
Would you believe that this is another film I did not come up with a program for!? That is outrageous. I am ashamed at myself. Thankfully for you I had an extra couple weeks with this program and fresh "September" eyes to think about a program. It seems that Bialystock and Bloom are trying a get rich quick scheme and of course it did not work out. Well everyone wants to make a quick buck right? Spending money, some extra cash to use for a trip to the local one screen theater, or coffee at the coffee shop, whatever your motivation fast, easy cash is always on a college student's mind. I would suggest getting together and coming up with a money making entrepreneurial plan as a floor. Maybe it is offering to vacuum students' rooms in the residence hall for $1 or a Starbucks delivery service for $5. Or maybe it is offering to do things in the local community. Raking leaves for a small fee or shoveling snow after a large storm. People in a town like this are ready to pay with cash on hand for things like that-but an organized group of floormates can really make that lucrative One Saturday of snow shoveling might pay for your next floor program to be out of sight!
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