{"id":15898,"date":"2012-10-07T10:19:04","date_gmt":"2012-10-07T14:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=15898"},"modified":"2012-10-07T10:19:04","modified_gmt":"2012-10-07T14:19:04","slug":"last-man-standing-non-hollywood-musical-movies-based-on-a-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/last-man-standing-non-hollywood-musical-movies-based-on-a-song\/","title":{"rendered":"Last Man Standing: Non-Hollywood Musical Movies Based on a Song"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I’m tempted, as I’ve been tempted too many times before, to think that I’ve come up with the shortest Last Man Standing<\/em> contest ever, but you’ve proven us wrong too many times before. I’m so confident you’ll surpass my expectations that I’ll give away the one movie that recently came to mind for me that fits what I will hold according to strict criteria: non-Hollywood musical movies based on a song<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

By “non-Hollywood musical movies based on a song,” I mean movies that were written outside the Hollywood musical tradition (whether actually made in Hollywood or not [ie, French musicals also don’t count]) specifically to play out the story of\/capitalize on\u00a0a pop song. Movies that simply use the title of a pop song (eg, High Fidelity<\/em>)\u00a0do not qualify<\/em>. In fact, I think we long ago did a Last Man Standing<\/em> on that topic. The movie has to be some (I would think in most if not all cases) misguided idea that the content of the pop song was not enough, that the pop song’s content had to be fleshed out as a feature film. Imagine, if you dare, an actual film portraying the events and evoking the moods of Don McLean<\/strong>‘s “American Pie” (the teen-exploitation film series of that title being a good example of movies that will NOT quality for this LMS). The screenplay, in other words, needs to be based on the song.<\/p>\n

As I said, I am so confident that you will come up with dozens of instances of this practice, a practice I’d forgotten ever happened even once until spending a solid 45 minutes with the following 1978 gem, that I will kick things off with our first entry…after the jump<\/em>!<\/p>\n

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And our first entry is…<\/em>Convoy<\/em>, based on the 1975 C.W. McCall hit song, “Convoy.”<\/p>