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mugsy
11-24-2003, 08:32 PM
I'm sitting here watching Fiddler on the Roof and was wondering if anyone else like that movie. They're about to sing Sunrise Sunset....what a great song. Donna and I were on AIM at the beginning of the movie when they were doing If I Were A Rich Man and were being stupid singing the song on AIM!! lol

I know...stupid thread, but I'm feeling brainless tonight.
Kfamr
11-24-2003, 08:43 PM
I've never seen the movie, but my school did "Fiddler on the roof" as a play years ago... Is it any similar?
Logan
11-24-2003, 08:45 PM
I loved it, Molly! :)
Fuzzy317
11-24-2003, 08:45 PM
I like Fiddler on the Roof. Haven't seen it in years, but I always enjoy it. :)
dukedogsmom
11-24-2003, 08:47 PM
Nope, sorry. Rates right on up there with The Deerhunter.
AmberLee
11-24-2003, 08:57 PM
Hee, hee. I like it and my sister LOVES it. I just picked up the DVD for her for Christmas. (It's on sale at Target, or it was the last time I was there...)
mugsy
11-24-2003, 08:57 PM
Originally posted by Kfamr
I've never seen the movie, but my school did "Fiddler on the roof" as a play years ago... Is it any similar?

It would be the same story KayAnn. If you liked the play you should rent the movie and watch it. It's REALLY long,(an hour and 45 minutes into the movie there is an intermission! lol) but great music and great dialogue. It won at least one Oscar for best Cinematography in 1971. It's on Turner Classic Movies right now, so they do show it on cable every once in awhile.


Mike LOVES it too. He also LOVES 1776. Not bad for a guy that, until we got together, hated musicals!! Now he can about quote the entire movie of 1776.
Dogz
11-24-2003, 09:05 PM
I have never seen it...
Edwina's Secretary
11-24-2003, 09:35 PM
I love it.....know every song....have seen the movie and the play...
captain
11-24-2003, 10:54 PM
Molly - Love it too!!!!

Oh boy ............ If I were a rich man .........dedli dedli ....... won't get that out of my head now :D
micki76
11-24-2003, 10:57 PM
Absolutely cannot stand it.
Soledad
11-24-2003, 11:11 PM
It's a guilty pleasure.:o :p
lynnestankard
11-25-2003, 03:55 AM
Sorry folks - didn't like the movie one bit - but adore the songs!!!
No I can't figure it out either!! Normally I love musicals:D
I've forgotten how many times I saw The Sound of Music!!!

Lynne
jenluckenbach
11-25-2003, 04:39 AM
I absolutely adore Fiddler on the roof!!!!!!!!
mugsy
11-25-2003, 07:16 AM
I forgot how sad the ending was. I always remember the funny stuff. I love the song "Anatefka" but it sure is sad.

It's funny, the other day I was watching "The Nanny" and they recreated the dream scene from Fiddler on the Roof...too funny.
Edwina's Secretary
11-25-2003, 12:39 PM
One of my favorite lines from the movie is when the people of Anatefka ask the rabbi if there is a blessing for the czar, and he replies..."God bless and keep the czar....far away from us!"
mugsy
11-25-2003, 01:59 PM
That's a great line. There are so many of them. I never used to like the dream scene, but, now it's one of my favorites. I also think the scene where he is sitting at the train station with the middle daughter before she leaves for Siberia. It's so touching.
Uabassoon
11-25-2003, 02:03 PM
I've never seen the movie version, but I've seen it performed live a few times and I love it. I always walk around signing if I were a rich man.
Edwina's Secretary
11-25-2003, 02:17 PM
Mugsy....do you mean when he says..."He asks you to leave your father and mother and join him in that frozen wasteland?" "No papa, he does not ask me to go, I want to go..."

So many lines from that movie!
Prairie Purrs
11-25-2003, 02:42 PM
Love the movie! And I have exceptionally fond memories of the play, because my high school chorus performed it when I was a sophomore (I played an anonymous villager).

Imagine, if you will, a bunch of small-town Midwestern kids with 1970s hair portraying a villageful of Russian Jews. :D
mugsy
11-25-2003, 04:02 PM
That would be it Sara!!
HoRsELUvR
11-25-2003, 04:06 PM
I like Fiddler on the Roof.I was watching it last night.:D
mugsy
11-25-2003, 05:51 PM
So were Moosmom and I....her in Michigan and me in Indiana!!
KYS
11-25-2003, 09:45 PM
I also loved the movie.
I thought the part where he and his wife were
in bed, and he had tricked his wife in believing
his bad dream of her dead mother was a bad omen.
So his eldest daughter did not have to marry the old guy.

That was great!!
Twisterdog
11-25-2003, 09:53 PM
They're about to sing Sunrise Sunset

My best friend played that song at her wedding. By the time it was over, everyone was bawling.

I've never seen the movie, but my brother was in the play in high school.