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[chanter1944]

Me, on finally listening to tracks from Come From Away: I now have that much more reason to be proud when a stranger says I sound like a Maritimes lady. I know there's a significant difference between what people say my accent makes me sound like (a Nova Scotian) and a Newfoundlander, but still. :) 3q 3q 3q

I've alternately grinned and cried at this soundtrack tonight. Hot /shells/, why didn't I listen to this ages ago? Is the young black man openly portrayed as feeling safe/happy/loving his time in Newfoundland intended as a nod to the Saint Lawrence in WWII story, as drawn from real life, or someone else's actual recollections of 2001's events, or both? And why ever do the combination of this music and certain lyrics make my Leigh want to speak up, loudly? She's an Ontarian with Cape Breton Nova Scotian family, there's a tenuous connection at best here, but she suddenly wants writing about. Maybe it's the Celtic influences all over the score, and the fiddles.

I am never going to get this out of my head! 3q 3q 3q 3q As if I didn't already have a major case of star eyes for Canada, and this is based on real events, and and and...

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[mirrorofsmoke]

*Making grabby ahnds toward that soundtrack. Ooooh!

[chanter1944]

Playlist linkage! :D Over thisaway!

[mirrorofsmoke]

OMG OMG OMG OMG that was beautiful!

[chanter1944]

That's very similar to my reaction. :D

I kind of love Bonnie of the SPCA, and that young black American gentleman with all his candid eloquence, and the self-effacing Middle Eastern master chef, and holy cow whoever the people playing both Hannah and the female airline pilot are can seriously *sing*, and... :D

One point among many squee-worthy points: Get a load of the 'Darkness And Trees' reprise, when the Canadians and the Africans are first meeting and initially misunderstanding each other, prior to anything to do with Philippians smoothing the way. I truly think the repeated phrases behind the action are being sung in *Zulu*. Love! And the language-mixing continues immediately after, in tandem! :) 3q 3q 3q

[jesse_the_k]

Tell me more!

I've been an unreconstructed Canada fangirl since I spent a year in bed listening to RCI (back in the 90s, when RCI was really lovely).

Whence the movie, or the soundtrack, or best of all both?

[Umm, errm, that Q was based on a quick IMDB check. Then I happened to do a NYT search and now I at least know what you're talking about. Newsfast may save my sanity but I have been disconnected from the mainstream of popular culture.]

[chanter1944]

I first met RCI in 2002 and was thoroughly enchanted, though I was raised on many a Canadian kids show as a tiny Chanter, so the seeds (maple seeds?) were already sewn. That, and Underground Railroad stories while in grade school, and an overall far healthier relationship with bilingualism and multilingualism than the States seemed to have (ten-year-old me thought it was just the height of cool to have a whole region that spoke *French!*), and well. I was in fun trouble right from the start. :) My view's quite a bit more nuanced now, as well it'd better be, but the core's still there.

Oh, and here, have a Broadway musical playlist as requested. :) Warm fuzzies, sniffles, and seriously catchy music ahoy.