Second Chorus
- cosy
- brisk
- gentle
- redemptive
- intimate
Cosy, kinetic, gentle paramount / astaire, grounded in texture. Redemptive, intimate, measured.
How every film is hand-scored →Danny O'Neill and Hank Taylor are rival trumpeters with the Perennials, a college band, and both men are still attending college by failing their exams seven years in a row. In the midst of a performance, Danny spies Ellen Miller who ends up being made band manager. Both men compete for her affections while trying to get the other one fired.
Our read · Second Chorus (1940) reads as a cosy, kinetic, grounded paramount · astaire · shaw entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
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The shape of Second Chorus
What watching it is actually like.
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The reading.
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