Posted on Friday, March 12th, 2021 by Ethan Anderton
The Morning Watch is a recurring feature that highlights a handful of noteworthy videos from around the web. They could be video essays, fanmade productions, featurettes, short films, hilarious sketches, or just anything that has to do with our favorite movies and TV shows.
In this edition, listen to a couple
Turner Classic Movies hosts talk about the plot device known as a
McGuffin and how it’s evolved over the years. Plus, hear
Up director
Bryn Imagire discuss introducing the talking dog known as Dug. And finally, watch
Maya Rudolph answer Vanity Fair’s Proust Questionnaire.
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ThyBlackMan.com) Passing the love of jazz on to a younger generation, cloaked in the sweetness of an animated movie, is a genius move.
It’s a bit jarring. A New York City middle school band is murdering the Disney song “When You Wish Upon a Star.” By the time they’re through, you’d wish a dream-fulfilling star had given you earplugs. Still, they continue, inspired by their very patient music teacher Joe Gardner (Jamie Foxx). Jazz is the reason their instructor loves music not matter how screechy the band gets. When Joe sits down to play the piano, he improvises like Keith Jarrett, playing with abandonment and using the melody as a starting point, which takes him to his nirvana:“The tune is just a tool to bring out the ‘you’.”