January 28 movie: Monkey Business. I was so tired last night that I blew off the Icicles show and watched this instead. And fell asleep in the middle! I fell asleep in the middle of Monkey Business. That's how tired I was. But I made it through the Maurice Chevalier impersonations, my favorite part, then thanks to the magic of the DVR I finished the movie in the morning.
Do I even need to say anything about this movie? It's one of the Marx Brothers' earliest movies and one of their best, I think. One really weird thing: the theme song, which shows up a few times (in the opening credits, Harpo's harp number, and briefly whistled by Chico), was also used in the Hitchcock movie Rope. It was the tune the twitchy sidekick villain kept playing on the piano, shifting into a minor key and faster tempo as the movie progressed and he got more stressed out. It really put a weird spin on hearing the same tune in Monkey Business, especially at first when the tune was making me uneasy but I couldn't place the reference.
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