ISSN:
0021-8715
Language:
English
Titel der Quelle:
The journal of American folklore : JAF : journal of the American Folklore Society
Publ. der Quelle:
Champaign, Ill : Univ. of Illinois Press
Angaben zur Quelle:
Vol. 129, No. 513 (2016), p. 253
DDC:
390
Abstract:
Who does not wish that certain days in one's life could be recalled, to be relived in a manner more in keeping with one's sense of justice and right? This was the basic premise, twisted about in antic fashion, of the 1993 film Groundhog Day-the closest thing to a Buddhist moral comedy that Columbia Pictures has produced. This film, which is still climbing the "best of such-and-such" charts, featured the slow, reluctant conversion of a cynical news anchorman, played by Bill Murray, into an instrument of cosmic order in small-town America. Play-it-again fantasies of this kind enter the author's mind when he thinks back on an incident he was once involved in, as a young man, in a town in western Afghanistan. All the same, he was amazed at the singer's torrent of words, some of which he sang out melodically while others he delivered in a rapid recitative.
Note:
Copyright: © COPYRIGHT 2016 American Folklore Society
URL:
http://search.proquest.com/docview/1809020215
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