I must apologise beforehand for the extreme and unabashed self-indulgence that will follow.
I am in love.
With what, I cannot really say.
I just know that I have heard my heart thumping to a beautiful tune, a tango is the accurate name.
Please try it.
To elucidate, I have been recently (about 15 minutes ago) been reminded of a timeless movie sequence from a timeless movie featuring a great actor and an equally great song. It is the tango dance sequence form ‘Scent of a Woman’.
Please indulge me by indulging in this music. It is a musical piece based on a song from a 1930’s Argentinean movie called ‘Por Una Cabreza’, which as I understand is Spanish for ‘For (the head) of a horse’. Strangely morbid for such a fine piece, but it actually refers to a gambler’s comparison of love to the feeling of seeing a horse win a race (by a head). But that is just detail.
The real life-changing moment is in the movie where a blind man, played by Al Pacino (I could kiss the ground he walks on) who is performing some desires he has in life and deciding to set the count straight as far as having lived his life as he had foreseen it. I don’t know about him or anyone else, but every time I view this song I have this urge to sway out of the film reel of my life and onto some wheatish landscape by Van Gogh and just have this music on loop narrating my life in ways that I am sure the cypresses will approve of.
The violin tell me of the main events, while the cellos tell me of sudden moments when life changes track, but never for the worse. It is a throbbing note where the blood pulsing is felt within as the high note catches me like a gust of wind just beneath my ears and carries me off to a heaven where this music is the God.
You won’t know what I mean unless you see/hear it for yourself. I am sure that you all will be thinking of me as a deranged, off centre person, but I think Pacino's character in the movie feels the same way, and Pacino the actor must agree with me.
For the sequence in the movie,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBHhSVJ_S6A
I am in love.
With what, I cannot really say.
I just know that I have heard my heart thumping to a beautiful tune, a tango is the accurate name.
Please try it.
To elucidate, I have been recently (about 15 minutes ago) been reminded of a timeless movie sequence from a timeless movie featuring a great actor and an equally great song. It is the tango dance sequence form ‘Scent of a Woman’.
Please indulge me by indulging in this music. It is a musical piece based on a song from a 1930’s Argentinean movie called ‘Por Una Cabreza’, which as I understand is Spanish for ‘For (the head) of a horse’. Strangely morbid for such a fine piece, but it actually refers to a gambler’s comparison of love to the feeling of seeing a horse win a race (by a head). But that is just detail.
The real life-changing moment is in the movie where a blind man, played by Al Pacino (I could kiss the ground he walks on) who is performing some desires he has in life and deciding to set the count straight as far as having lived his life as he had foreseen it. I don’t know about him or anyone else, but every time I view this song I have this urge to sway out of the film reel of my life and onto some wheatish landscape by Van Gogh and just have this music on loop narrating my life in ways that I am sure the cypresses will approve of.
The violin tell me of the main events, while the cellos tell me of sudden moments when life changes track, but never for the worse. It is a throbbing note where the blood pulsing is felt within as the high note catches me like a gust of wind just beneath my ears and carries me off to a heaven where this music is the God.
You won’t know what I mean unless you see/hear it for yourself. I am sure that you all will be thinking of me as a deranged, off centre person, but I think Pacino's character in the movie feels the same way, and Pacino the actor must agree with me.
For the sequence in the movie,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBHhSVJ_S6A
Great, very romantic, touched my heart.
ReplyDeleteI have been a fan of Al, of "Scent of a Woman" and more than anything else of Tango. Por una cabeza is really a very good track originally sung by Carlos Gardel, the legendary king of Tango.I believe you are already familiar with the original version. If not, check it out : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dStp5hq294
ReplyDelete@ Swapna R
ReplyDeleteI like it a lot. I have downloaded the movie so that you can watch it later.
@ Madhuvan
I would like to learn and know so much more about tango from you. I have watched the Gardel song on youtube after researching this tune. It was very nice, I would like to watch the movie as well. I felt funny for the person next to Gardel who didn't know what to do when the song was going on.