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Not only did that not happen, the entire film ended up being shot on interior sound stages. It was also filmed in less than glorious Ansco Color more economizing at work. Just the same, the film is impressively grandiose with scores of gigantic indoor sets surrounded by those vast MGM cyclorama backings. I/51P799ECKSL._SY445_.jpg' alt='The Legend Of The Candy Cane Movie Trailers' title='The Legend Of The Candy Cane Movie Trailers' />Brigadoon was one of the first MGMUA DVDs released in 1. Turner product on home video. It has finally arrived on Blu ray, a format that can give us a much better look at its wholly designed, studio created fantasy. Adapted from the Frederick Loewe, Alan Jay Lerner Broadway hit, Brigadoon proposes a fanciful alternative to the Big City Rat Race. New York businessmen Tommy Albright and Jeff Douglas Gene Kelly Van Johnson become lost on a hunting trip in Scotland. A village called Brigadoon suddenly appears where no village should be. The two discover a perplexing bunch of villagers that behave as highlanders did two hundred years before. Tommy meets a local lassie named Fiona Campbell Cyd Charisse and falls in love. The truth of Brigadoon is finally offered by Mr. Lundie Barry Jones, one of the elders thanks to a bargain with God to keep the town untouched by the outside world, Brigadoon sleeps hidden for a hundred years between days, when its inhabitants awaken as if no time at all has passed. Its residents have experienced only two full days since 1. Tommy needs to choose whether he wants to leave or stay with Fiona. But once a person becomes a citizen of Brigadoon they must forever remain within its narrow boundaries. Anyone who leaves will break the spell, and the village and its people will disappear forever. Brigadoon has several pretty songs and a couple of fun dance numbers. The staging is elaborate, but the show doesnt quite make it to the top tier of the MGM musical pantheon. The real stars are the studio artisans that mounted the immense scenic backdrops that MGM used as backgrounds for its Cinema. Scope movies. The film doesnt seem to be taking place on a theater stage, nor does it attempt to be realistic. What it looks like is a giant museum diorama, the kind with painted backgrounds behind stuffed animals. Color coordinated briars and heather are stuck around the ground like Easter decorations. Its not artificial fake, its artificial claustrophobic, even with the cyclorama backgrounds. The tone of the film is High Art, with the accompanying lofty emotions established and maintained through the balletic movements of Cyd Charisse and Gene Kelly, even when theyre not dancing. We dont think that every film of 1. Brando mode of realism, but Brigadoon comes off as a bit formalist. Most of Frederick Loewes songs aim for romantic sentiments of the kind that exalt True Romance as a nearly impossible ideal. Only Almost Like Being In Love and The Heather on the Hill are melodic standouts. Gene Kelly is called on to mostly sing, his weakest talent, while the dances are tasteful but not particularly memorable. Only the Go Home With Bonnie Jean dance develops a communal sense of fun. Otherwise the film has the feel of a pageant. The concept of Brigadoon, a magical destination for those tired of the chaos of modern life, is pure soft boiled hooey. Anybody looking for the roots of White Flight might find that the play touches the same retreat to the safe past sentiment. The wish to ignore the rest of the world and make ones perfect neighborhood last forever is a weakly disguised isolationist reactionary fantasy. It fits the complacent 1. Lost Horizons escapist colonial fantasy was a predictable response to the fears of 1. A Scot of 1. 75. 4 is supposed to have made a deal with God to initiate the miracle, yet the storybook pure Brigadoon isnt shown to have any Christian influence. Brigadoon has existed for only two days in this isolated state and already it has a dissident. The unhappy jilted suitor Harry Beaton played by ballet dancer Hugh Laing agonizes about being stuck in an enclosed world that holds no future for him. The rest of Brigadoon, even his own kin, appear to be in denial. Everybodys happy, so Harry must be the problem. Frankly, we understand Harrys anxiety. Jerry Lee Lewis could dedicate a song to what everybodys thinking about the hamlet of Brigadoon theres got to be a whole lotta in breedin going on. Alan Jay Lerner takes his fantasy seriously, and the theme that Love conquers Time was apparently the right message to make the show a Broadway hit in 1. Im afraid that I interpret Alan Jay Lerners fantasy as anything but whimsical. When Harry Beaton tries to escape, Brigadoon suddenly resembles Invasion of the Body Snatchers. A malcontent that cannot conform is dangerous and must be restrained. A convenient accident solves the problem. Brigadoon is the kind of romantic fantasy thats supposed to be appreciated for its charms and not examined too closely, and on those terms it wont disappoint. Comic relief is provided via a funny sidekick, who models the cynicism the hero wishes to leave behind. Serving as a substitute Oscar Levant, Van Johnsons main purpose is to provide a bad example and deflate Genes romantic mood. Brigadoon is not about the afterlife, exactly, but it probably does qualify as a Film Blanc. As is typical of Entitlement Fantasies of the Convenient Kind, unalterable fantasy rules yield to true love, especially where above the title talent is concerned. Just as in Lost Horizon, the hero finds paradise, loses it and returns to search for it again. Kelly should have to wait 9. Brigadoon to re emerge from the mist, but the magical town leaps back to life just for him. Its kind of like God telling Adam and Eve, Come back to the garden, I was just kidding. My wicked self cannot resist examining the Brigadoon concept more closely. Wouldnt Kellys Tommy Albright contaminate the magic town with modern ideas and knowledgeWouldnt allowing Kelly into the community defeat the purpose for which Brigadoon was created in the first place When he sees that Brigadoons customs, superstitions, and scientific and medical state are mired in the Dark Ages, is modern man Kelly really going to keep silent about things like basic hygiene and nutrition Typical of the loose ends that are left dangling, Van Johnsons Jeff is abandoned at the edge of Brigadoon without comment, or even a close up to tell us his state of mind. Knowing that the doubting cynic has witnessed a real miracle, wouldnt Jeffs change of heart be just as interesting as that of the Gene Kelly character I have a hard time believing that nobody pegged the story as a re thinking of Lost Horizon, even though it is ostensibly based on much older folk tales. 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