Julie London and V for Vendetta
This evening we saw V for Vendetta. What a wonderful movie. It’s not too cheerful nor too dark. It has a message. It tugs at your emotions and your brain yet has enough high speed movement for the action fans. It has twists. Overall, well worth both the time and the money. I’ll remember the movie for a while which, to me, is the real test of how much I liked it.
Mostly, I found it had plenty of hidden gems. For example, there’s one scene when Natalie Portman is wandering in V’s lair for the first time. In the background starts playing this jazz song. Within a few notes I leaned over and whispered: Cry me a river. Yet I couldn’t identify the voice. For one of the most sung jazz classics, this was one rendition I wasn’t sure I’d heard before. It nagged at me. Even when the song was played a second time, again, I was lost. At least, I thought, they didn’t have Diana Krall singing. Her deep voice would have been too much for the scene I think.
Coming back home I tracked down the artist: Julie London. Yes, per this wikipedia entry, she was the first to sing this famous song! What a nice touch for the movie. How sad though that we don’t hear her work often anymore.