Bee got today’s prompt from Jim: "A Love Song that includes a commitment or a promise." As I mentioned yesterday, I decided that this song was a much better fit for today.
I’m guessing that nearly everyone has seen the 1992 movie Sister Act which starred Whoopi Goldberg, Maggie Smith, and Harvey Keitel. The logline reads, "When a nightclub singer is forced to take refuge from the mob in a convent, she ends up turning the convent choir into a soulful chorus complete with a Motown repertoire, until the sudden celebrity of the choir jeopardizes her identity." One of the songs that Deloris (Whoopi’s character) teaches the nuns is "I Will Follow Him," a hit for Little Peggy March from 1963.
This was a stroke of genius for the writers, because that is exactly what nuns (more correctly religious Sisters) profess in their final vows, when they become "Brides of Christ": that they will go wherever they’re told to go, taking the orders of their Mother Superior as though the orders were from God Himself. It changes the whole sense of what the song means.
Here’s the final scene from the movie, in wnich they are performing for the Pope.
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Obe of my mom’s favourite movies. It is such a hoot and some great music like this one.
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That was the first single I ever bought with my own (allowance) money. Played it on my little pre-HiFi suitcase record player until my mom could take no more, lol! I loved what they did with it for the movie.
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Love that movie (and song). I saw it at the cinema when it was released (might not sound like a big deal, but we had to drive to the next town to go to the cinema).
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I take it your towns are a little further apart than ours are. Here they’re all kind of bunched together… Regardless, I’m sure you felt it was worth it!
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Oh! Woo John by this is just such a great version of this song …love it 💜💜💜
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Have you ever seen the movie? They did a rocking version of “Hail Holy Queen.”
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Yes John we’ve watched both films several times, it never gets tired and the music is ace 💜💜
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This is a perfect song for today’s prompt. I like that the lyrics were cleverly appliedin a religious context from the original romantic context. As an aside, I’ve never watched Sister Act, although I’m familiar with the story, and I’ve seen bits and pieces of it. 😉
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The whole movie is great. You can rent it from YouTube, and probably Amazon Video.
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That was such a fun movie. I need to dredge it up and watch it again.
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Yoiu can rent it from YouTube and Amazon Video. It’s worth it just for the music, but the story is a good one, too.
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I have it on DVD. 🙂
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Even better!
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Always loved that song.
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Great song and placed perfectly in the movie.
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Great choice John, and my favourite track from the movie.
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Whoever chose the music for the movie deserved an Oscar.
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I enjoyed Sister Act 2 as well, but not as much as the first.
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I know. It was kind of a let-down. I think they wrote it in a hurry to try and capitalize oin the popularity of the first, and those are never that good…
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I agree with you there.
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