Mitzi sings and acts marvellously. And I seem to be one of the few that actually likes the use of colour filters to enhance the story line. Altogether, a fabulous film that I could watch time and time again !
Hi Robert, Yes I agree with everything you say. I think that many misunderstand the use of the color filters throughout the film. For your info. there was made a copy entirely without color alterations. Very hard to find though. I saw it here on YT many years ago. Maybe some of these actual scenes still can be found here. However I have not been looking for them.
I agree with you 100%. with everything that is going on in the world now: the pandemic, the wildfires that are going on, and the African American people who getting killed I believe that things will get better. I know that there some people who are really depressed who think this is the end of the world but I know things will get better eventually.
Something you just get seeing the movie in the English Original, Mitzi Gaynor´s Southern Accent, fits perfectly to this role. Compare on UA-cam the alternative to other female leads
this is another scene in which they used a yellow filter when it's obviously a beautiful day and didn't need any artificial colouring. thank goodness they didn't use any filter at the end of the movie when Emile returns to his children and Nellie, great aerial shot!!
“I hear the human race is falling on its face and hasn’t very far to go. But every whippoorwill is selling me a bill and telling me it just ain’t so!” This song remains just as relevant today as it was when it was written in 1949.
I went to see the film in a theatre a few years ago. It was part of the TCM Fathom events line-up. I was so excited at the prospect of finally being able to see the filters on a big screen. I have to say, that they are not as obtrusive as they are on a television screen; and they fill the house with color.
What you say about the filters in an actual movie theatre is a really interesting. How I would love the opportunity to see Logan's SOUTH PACIFIC in a first run movie theatre (if anything such a a 'first run movie house' still exists).
@@showtunestarpower I finally had the opportunity to see South Pacific in a theater! TCM/Fathom Events put it in select theaters about four years ago. It had always been a dream of mine to see those damned color filters on a big screen. They looked beautiful!
Yes, I agree. I have the same experience. When seen at the theatre the filters did not catch my attention to the same externt as they do watching TV or PC versions. I know that multiple copies exists, with different filter settings, even without filters at all. If screen and tv versions are different I dont know, or if seeing it "live" changes my colour perception, I can not tell.
I first saw this film when I was a kid and after all those years I look at the world we live in today, what with Islamic terror, starvation in Africa, world-wide economic problems, constant threats of more wars, and yet this film takes you to a heavenly place so divorced from these dark days!
Dark days? Are you kidding? When this film was made the world lived under constant threat of nuclear annihilation, one Soviet officer refusing orders to launch missiles until an equipment check was performed that revealed the incoming US missiles were actually a cloud formation mis-identified by faulty sensors, civil wars, disease, and famine as bad or worse than anything we have today raged on unnoticed because of the lack of Internet (the former made worse by the Soviets and US often picking opposing sides and supplying them with weapons regardless of atrocities committed). This wasn't some bygone golden age, this was a world even more fucked up than hours living in the shadow of looming Atomic horror, the only difference being that communications technology wasn't yet advanced enough for many people to know the truth.
I like the way she goes against the negative of what is going on. We don’t have to deny the truth of reality, but we can choose a better, and more positive way to think and live….to help not only ourselves, but to lift others up too!!
I've heard so many versions of this song and you just couldn't tell how great of a song it is by listening to the most famous version here--and I know that's sacriligious to say. It's sung in such a stilted and stagey version without any soul or heart. There's a soul singer from the 60s name Linda Lloyd who does such a melodic version of this.
I do not doubt that others can do well with this but I think your criticism is unfair. Greatness leaves room for others. It is NOT a competition though that is our human tendency - our "#1 -itis" - inflammation of our capacity to enjoy many offerings, even "imperfect" ones.
The colouring filters that are used sometimes in the movie are used to create a sense of mystery and to express that what happens is not actually real - is a bit off of normal life. I think it was an artistic move by the director to convey this feeling and I think for myself it doesn't contribute to the film. May be to the Bali Hai scene but even there I find the colouring is a bit to intense. There were parallell scenes made without filters, but these are very rare to find.
When the skies are brighter canary yellow I forget ev'ry cloud I've ever seen, So they called me a cockeyed optimist Immature and incurably green. I have heard people rant and rave and bellow That we're done and we might as well be dead, But I'm only a cockeyed optimist And I can't get it into my head. 1:18
Hi, yes I very much like this and of course the whole movie with all its wunderful music. What I don't like is that former nice clips have been taken away and/or replaced with clips with incorporated ads or songtexts. I like them just as they were - as original. Some have improved for the better though - with higher resolution. Thats good !
"When IS the sky a bright canary yellow? As far as I know, only in the eye of a hurricane [...] if the sky were a bright canary yellow, I'd run for the nearest storm cellar." - Stephen Sondheim
Hi Amy, Yes , she performed herself in all the songs and was not dubbed ever. All other principal cast members were dubbed except she and Walston(Luther Billis). You can read more about it here. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Pacific_(1958_film)
Who orchestrated this number? Some of the string work on this arrangement is extremely similar to the 1949 Sandra Deel - Al Goodman RCA Recording of the Song!
@@aminsadeghpour1549 yes, I understood that, I just couldn’t make out that particular word. My best guess was god fire which makes no sense lol. Thanks again
Incurably Rep Marj Greene. Knucklehead Nellie? I have heard the song before. No court time needed. No courtship. Legs are simple gifts but try not to lose them. Shank's Ponied up. The pony lost its tail? Witch one? Legs Dimond (leg ends Krays and Scruggs) (LEG) hei, Taina & Mitzi aka John Steed - the tail has found a horse. RIP KING'S ROW - you need legs to ahem take 39 Steps to reach "where is the rest of me?" Drake McHugh Yank Hasty Heart gained. RIP most of Les Girls cast. Leslie Phillips most recently. Oh. OH. Käy Kendall plays a trumpet in Genevieve before passing out. Kenneth more in the vicinity than ahem NOT. His character is most impressed and never the Twain shall mete? ****SPOILER****
"GOSH it's beautiful here"... American character before the hollywood communist 10, before the hippy pope, before prince charles diversity, before alinsky and rules for radicals... "call me a cock-eyed optimist... I'm stuck here like a dope on a thing called hope and I can't get it out of my heart".
Yes Cat a bowl of Jell-O it's a bowl of jelly, this is the trouble when you let people go their own way, I will have to get my redcoat out of the wardrobe and pop over the pond.
“Let your smile change the world, but don't let the world change your smile.”
I always thought this sweet little song is one of the best from South Pacific. I love that high note when she sings, "I can't get it out of my heart."
I agree :-)
Mitzi Gaynor's rendition of this classic song is outstanding.
I totally agree
South Pacific is still alive with music in my heart!
Can only agree with you. Still gives me goose bumps playing it on my stereo or listening here on YT
This is the most Rodgers and Hammerstein-y song ever written lol. I love it.
Mitzi sings and acts marvellously. And I seem to be one of the few that actually likes the use of colour filters to enhance the story line. Altogether, a fabulous film that I could watch time and time again !
Hi Robert, Yes I agree with everything you say. I think that many misunderstand the use of the color filters throughout the film. For your info. there was made a copy entirely without color alterations. Very hard to find though. I saw it here on YT many years ago. Maybe some of these actual scenes still can be found here. However I have not been looking for them.
This is a great time for some cockeyed optimism --- in light of the worldwide COVID-19 threat --- some apropos lyrics! 🌞🌴
I agree with you 100%.
with everything that is going on in the world now: the pandemic, the wildfires that are going on, and the African American people who getting killed I believe that things will get better.
I know that there some people who are really depressed who think this is the end of the world but I know things will get better eventually.
@@aminsadeghpour1549 This made me feel better thank you FR
Mitzi Gaynor was absolutely perfect for the role of Nellie!
Unbelievable lyric too. It's just like she's continuing to talk to him and explaining how she feels.
I simply love this song!!!
Nobody matches Mitzi in this role. She gave a superb performance.
And she's the right age for the part.
"I can't work myself up to getting that low!" I love that line and how Mitzi Gaynor delivers it. Timeless song from my favorite movie.
Can't agree more ;)
Something you just get seeing the movie in the English Original, Mitzi Gaynor´s Southern Accent, fits perfectly to this role. Compare on UA-cam the alternative to other female leads
I saw this movie when I was 12 in the theatre. It made an impression and I’d sing all the songs. I’m 66 now . Thanks for posting the clips!
played this on my old phonograph til I wore it out. Prolly my fav musical.
My older sister did, too! Photo of Emil and Nellie sitting on a rock by the sunny beach. I can still picture it in my 'mind's eye'!
So happy we have positive people!! My mom was one of them, and I learned a really lot from her!!
this is another scene in which they used a yellow filter when it's obviously a beautiful day and didn't need any artificial colouring. thank goodness they didn't use any filter at the end of the movie when Emile returns to his children and Nellie, great aerial shot!!
The color filters were pretty much nothing but a distraction. About the only place where they made any sense was during "Bali Ha'i".
“I hear the human race is falling on its face and hasn’t very far to go. But every whippoorwill is selling me a bill and telling me it just ain’t so!”
This song remains just as relevant today as it was when it was written in 1949.
Mitzi the magnificent!
My grandma likes this song! Thanks
Love this movie.
Mizzi is awesome :)
Really needed now 💚
I don't think that I would be able to watch this movie without a box of Kleenex® close by…
I went to see the film in a theatre a few years ago. It was part of the TCM Fathom events line-up. I was so excited at the prospect of finally being able to see the filters on a big screen. I have to say, that they are not as obtrusive as they are on a television screen; and they fill the house with color.
What you say about the filters in an actual movie theatre is a really interesting. How I would love the opportunity to see Logan's SOUTH PACIFIC in a first run movie theatre (if anything such a a 'first run movie house' still exists).
@@showtunestarpower I finally had the opportunity to see South Pacific in a theater! TCM/Fathom Events put it in select theaters about four years ago. It had always been a dream of mine to see those damned color filters on a big screen. They looked beautiful!
Yes, I agree. I have the same experience. When seen at the theatre the filters did not catch my attention to the same externt as they do watching TV or PC versions. I know that multiple copies exists, with different filter settings, even without filters at all. If screen and tv versions are different I dont know, or if seeing it "live" changes my colour perception, I can not tell.
I first saw this film when I was a kid and after all those years I look at the world we live in today, what with Islamic terror, starvation in Africa, world-wide economic problems, constant threats of more wars, and yet this film takes you to a heavenly place so divorced from these dark days!
Dark days? Are you kidding? When this film was made the world lived under constant threat of nuclear annihilation, one Soviet officer refusing orders to launch missiles until an equipment check was performed that revealed the incoming US missiles were actually a cloud formation mis-identified by faulty sensors, civil wars, disease, and famine as bad or worse than anything we have today raged on unnoticed because of the lack of Internet (the former made worse by the Soviets and US often picking opposing sides and supplying them with weapons regardless of atrocities committed). This wasn't some bygone golden age, this was a world even more fucked up than hours living in the shadow of looming Atomic horror, the only difference being that communications technology wasn't yet advanced enough for many people to know the truth.
Great song
I like the way she goes against the negative of what is going on. We don’t have to deny the truth of reality, but we can choose a better, and more positive way to think and live….to help not only ourselves, but to lift others up too!!
Skip ahead to 1:22. You're welcome.
Thank you!
yay! thanks!!
Thanks so much
And miss Mitzi Gaynor's wonderful delivery of the dialogue?
Thanks !
never seen the movie (I will soon though)
but this song is amazing! I've just watched an Mitzi interview from a few years ago and this is amazing *.*
Wonderfull. Song. Went to see it.
“Be incurably green. Today.”- nyc, 10/20/2020
Great song. I discovered it from an old pop version from the early 1960s.
Hi all, Soon I will upload more hi res video song snips from the 1958 movie. Without ads or incorporated song texts.
So... stay in touch ;-)
wonder if this is where the seinfeld writers picked up the phrase "cockeyed optimist"
I've heard so many versions of this song and you just couldn't tell how great of a song it is by listening to the most famous version here--and I know that's sacriligious to say. It's sung in such a stilted and stagey version without any soul or heart. There's a soul singer from the 60s name Linda Lloyd who does such a melodic version of this.
I do not doubt that others can do well with
this but I think your criticism is unfair. Greatness leaves room for others.
It is NOT a competition though that is our human tendency - our "#1 -itis" - inflammation of our capacity to enjoy many offerings, even "imperfect" ones.
I love it
The colouring filters that are used sometimes in the movie are used to create a sense of mystery and to express that what happens is not actually real - is a bit off of normal life. I think it was an artistic move by the director to convey this feeling and I think for myself it doesn't contribute to the film. May be to the Bali Hai scene but even there I find the colouring is a bit to intense.
There were parallell scenes made without filters, but these are very rare to find.
When the skies are brighter canary yellow
I forget ev'ry cloud I've ever seen,
So they called me a cockeyed optimist
Immature and incurably green.
I have heard people rant and rave and bellow
That we're done and we might as well be dead,
But I'm only a cockeyed optimist
And I can't get it into my head. 1:18
I sing this in voice lessons and I think it's so pretty.
Hi, yes I very much like this and of course the whole movie with all its wunderful music.
What I don't like is that former nice clips have been taken away and/or replaced with clips with incorporated ads or songtexts. I like them just as they were - as original. Some have improved for the better though - with higher resolution. Thats good !
Well I dunno...
But I'd do "Knucklhead Nellie" seven ways from Sunday.
Lovely Musical.
Johnny Mathis nailed this song
❤️❤️❤️❤️
Mitzi
"When IS the sky a bright canary yellow? As far as I know, only in the eye of a hurricane [...] if the sky were a bright canary yellow, I'd run for the nearest storm cellar."
- Stephen Sondheim
Is that what killed Sondheim?
Did Mitzi Gaynor do her own singing in this movie?
Hi Amy,
Yes , she performed herself in all the songs and was not dubbed ever. All other principal cast members were dubbed except she and Walston(Luther Billis). You can read more about it here. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Pacific_(1958_film)
Kelli O'Hara is very good but this is the " best …" Mitzy Gaynor is the goal .. She's the best … JN
1:25
1:24
That Picture WAS takenn BEfore ...
BEfore what ??
#Poo #Boo its good shes from #LittleRock like #Me #CheriSandefur.
#CheriPeavy.
Who orchestrated this number? Some of the string work on this arrangement is extremely similar to the 1949 Sandra Deel - Al Goodman RCA Recording of the Song!
Somebody correct me if I'm wrong, but I think it was longtime R&H collaborator Robert Russell Bennett.
It's "Mitzi," not "Mizzi," Gaynor.
This is what led to Billy Mumphries downfall.
The only thing cockeyed about this are the color filters. When the sky is a bright canary yellow, why does Mitzi Gaynor's face need to be?
20th Century Fox overdid the color changes that were intended to put subtle emphasis on the songs.
Jello or Gel lo?
0:33 what is he saying after “could easily be”?
gunfire
@@aminsadeghpour1549 thank you 🙏
he is referring to the fact that there is a war going on.
@@aminsadeghpour1549 yes, I understood that, I just couldn’t make out that particular word. My best guess was god fire which makes no sense lol. Thanks again
Your question. Answer - ...gunfire.
Meaning the small white clouds were explosions from anti airplane artillery.
Incurably Rep Marj Greene. Knucklehead Nellie?
I have heard the song before. No court time needed. No courtship. Legs are simple gifts but try not to lose them. Shank's Ponied up. The pony lost its tail? Witch one?
Legs Dimond (leg ends Krays and Scruggs) (LEG) hei, Taina & Mitzi
aka John Steed - the tail has found a horse. RIP KING'S ROW - you need legs to ahem take 39 Steps to reach "where is the rest of me?" Drake McHugh Yank Hasty Heart gained. RIP most of Les Girls cast. Leslie Phillips most recently. Oh. OH. Käy Kendall plays a trumpet in Genevieve before passing out. Kenneth more in the vicinity than ahem NOT. His character is most impressed and never the Twain shall mete? ****SPOILER****
"GOSH it's beautiful here"...
American character before the hollywood communist 10, before the hippy pope, before prince charles diversity, before alinsky and rules for radicals...
"call me a cock-eyed optimist... I'm stuck here like a dope on a thing called hope and I can't get it out of my heart".
Yes Cat a bowl of Jell-O it's a bowl of jelly, this is the trouble when you let people go their own way, I will have to get my redcoat out of the wardrobe and pop over the pond.
+Kat Ruby Always nice to have a rosy tinted look back to a world that never existed - except in the eyes of a cockeyed optimist maybe?
+Kat Ruby Perhaps consider upping the medication...
Andrew Goulding Nah, I've always preferred Tullamore Dew, in resistance to U.S. Pharmaceutical Corporations.
Thanks Toons Girl.
_ain't it a beautiful world_.
I feel like this song would be so much more amazing if the lyrics weren't so silly
Joe, what's amazing is Hammerstein's ability to make a beautiful song out of the phrase "cockeyed optimist".
mitsi Gaynor appears to have such an immposibly small waiste.
Remember that women wore much more elaborate shape wear in those days, but it is true that the average waist size has increased since 1958.
Billy Mumfry-
1:25
1:22