#Melody 1971 japanese movie

Reviewed by Reno-Rangan 10 / 10 Who knows where and to whom the love bug bite. What naturalistic performances from the three young leads! For anyone interested in romance among the very young, I heartily recommended Melody. Wonderful use of Bee Gees songs throughout as well as Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young's 'Teach Your Children' for the climatic sequence. Of the adult supporting cast, I was wonderfully delighted to see Roy Kinnear, whom I recognized from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, as Melody's father who's quite funny telling his stories that occasionally please the other adults around the table but not Melody or Daniel. I've now seen it there and I wonder: how could I have not heard of this wonderful pre-teen love story before then? How wonderful to see Lester and Wild becoming friends at the beginning despite class differences and then having that tested when Daniel (Lester's character) sees Melody for the first time watching her through a window as she's taking ballet lessons. Three things intrigued me when I watched the beginning credits: 1) It starred Mark Lester and Jack Wild-Oliver Twist and The Artful Dodger from the musical Oliver! just three years before, 2) It was written by future director Alan Parker and produced by his later Midnight Express producer David Putnam (who was also executive producer of Parker's kid musical Bugsy Malone), and 3) Who is this Tracy Hyde that plays the title character? I then clicked this title on IMDb and looked at the forums section and it told me where I could view the whole movie: on Google Video.

#Melody 1971 japanese movie

Being a fan of theirs, I linked it and saw the titles of a movie called Melody. When I looked up YouTube last December, I was typing the heading '1971' and stumbled upon a Bee Gees song. Reviewed by tavm 10 / 10 Melody is an unsung 'young love' story Newcomer Tracy Hyde is lovely and natural as Melody, and the silly, self-infatuated adults (portrayed almost satirically) are amusing, but the plot is really incidental Puttnam, Parker and director Waris Hussein are mostly delighted by just observing the children, often in an almost documentary-like manner. The lush, romantic soundtrack, featuring songs by the Bee Gees and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, is another plus, though the numerous montages highlighting the music do grow wearisome (and point up the screenplay's basic problem, that it's thin). Producer David Puttnam made several fine decisions as well, most especially in reuniting Mark Lester and Jack Wild, the two boys from 1968's 'Oliver!', as the chums from different parts of town. Screenwriter Alan Parker really did his homework here he is very cognizant of the way little girls act together when a boy is in the room, or how one particular lass will act once her friends have left and she's alone with that boy. Youngsters from different British classes interact at school, with one precocious but sensitive lad falling in love with a female classmate, much to the consternation of his best friend, who is still awkward around girls.

Reviewed by moonspinner55 5 / 10 Snapshots of childhood.