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Title: The Boys: The Sherman Brothers Story
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Parents, there is nothing objectional in this film for kids. Recommended for all ages. |
As much as I love my brother I would never want to work with him. Look, I'm being honest, not mean. We have different personalities. He likes sports, I like movies. He watches ESPN, I watch Cartoon Network. He likes his women to be feisty extroverts, I like contemplative introverts. He likes boxers, I like briefs. We both like pizza though. Just saying. One of the greatest songwriting teams in cinema are Richard and Robert Sherman (AKA: The Sherman Brothers). They have collaborated on some of the most family family musicals of all time and have won many awards for their works.
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These movies include Mary Poppins, Winnie the Pooh, and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. During interviews they always enjoy talking about their collaboration, but in real life they are practically complete strangers. They don't talk to each other. Their wives don't play cards. Theirs sons never really talked to each other until they were forty years old. Odd considering these guys wrote the songs "Let's Stick Together" and "That's What Friends Are For (The Vulture Song)." What went wrong in their relationship? It's hard to say exactly. Their parents were never divorced and they both had a passion for music, but their personalities were too different. While both men raved the army, Robert was shot in combat and even was one of the first people to see the Concentration Camps, a sight that seems to haunt him to this day. Richard, on the other hand, never even entered combat. Robert always wanted to write the great American novel. Richard wanted to conduct a great symphony. I guess, in that way, their collaboration made a lot of sense. But there was still tension.
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For most of their career Walt Disney would be the peacekeeper between the two of them, but once he was gone their partnership got more strained. That they were able to keep their animosity hidden from the public was amazing, but even during the red carpet interviews I can see that they talk to journalists on opposite ends of the red carpet. Yet the music is good. They wrote some of the most famous movie and theme park attraction songs ever. If there is a shame in all this it's that they never were really able to branch out and write music for more mature films. So with all that said, is "The Boys: The Sherman Brothers Story" a tragedy? I don't think so. It's unfortunate that they don't get along very well, but I think that has more to do with personality clash over anything like ego's or smarts. Sometimes siblings are just different. It actually could be seen as a good thing that the two men got to work together for so long, or else they might have lost contact with each other long ago. Their relationship is probably too complex for one film to handle, but it gives us enough insight to wet our appetite for more information while being an entertaining and informative look at some very good music.
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