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mikkeneko · 5 months ago

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#I'd have to go back to watch the episode to compare#but I can definitely hear the part that would have been identified#as 'swing your razor high sweeny'#anyway#I know that WWX's death was changed in the drama#vs the book#but it's a change I really love#if this musical interpretation holds up I love it#wwx is the sacrifice and he dances himself to death#3000 men couldn't kill him he had to do it himself - reblogging my own tags from last time

@citrusandbergamot can you say more? I’m not actually familiar with Rite of Spring. I just thought it reminded me of Sweeney Todd (and my mom agreed and began swinging her imaginary razor high) and I thought maybe they were doing similar things with riffing on the Dies Irae as Sondheim did there?

Edit: @veliseraptor started playing me The Rite of Spring and I have actual heard this and forgotten its name and I see what you mean but also still want to hear more about your thoughts on this

#I think about this often #both the analysis post and just CQL's choice to do this in the first place #because the thing is that for the most part CQL is pretty committed to a classical chinese musical soundtrack #which is appropriate! it's a xianxia setting and music is an important plotline in it #but for this scene -- this incredibly important and hard-hitting scene --#they broke away from that and chose this -- a piece from a russian ballet -- instead #it's such a departure that the choice HAS to have been deliberate‚ and with some pretty heavy justification #and this is it. this is what it's about.#CQL is sometimes goofy and sometimes drops the ball #but when it is good #it's PHENOMENAL #long post #the untamed

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