Monday, November 5, 2007

Outlining the content

Here's a preliminary stab at a list of content for my site:
  1. Introductory section, explaining what the user can expect to find (capsule movie reviews and recommendations), as well as what kinds of films are covered (feature films in various genres) and what kinds aren't (documentaries, entire operas on film).
  2. Movies about opera performers and composers
    • Amadeus
    • Celestial Clockwork (a.k.a. Mecaniques Celestes)
    • Così
    • Farewell My Concubine
    • Farinelli
    • Meeting Venus
    • A Night at the Opera
    • Topsy-Turvy
  3. Movies about opera fans
    • Diva
    • Fitzcarraldo
    • Moonstruck
    • Puccini for Beginners
  4. Honorable mentions: movies where opera isn't a major plot point, but which have a relevant scene or two
    • The Age of Innocence (Philadelphia's Academy of Music makes a cameo appearance in an early scene)
    • Citizen Kane (alas, Susan Alexander Kane is not cut out to be an opera star)
    • The Fifth Element (blue-skinned space alien sings Donizetti!)
    • The House of Mirth (several scenes take place in a box at a performance of Così fan Tutte)
    • Philadelphia (Tom Hanks plays Maria Callas recording for Denzel Washington)
    • Pretty Woman (Richard Gere takes Julia Roberts to see La Traviata)
    • The Shawshank Redemption (Tim Robbins broadcasts Mozart to the prison yard)
  5. List of operas referred to
  6. Further reading

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