Comments on: Watch This: Sita Sings The Blues

By: HanaMaru

HanaMaru — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 07:14:50 +0000

I’m really excited to see this. I never liked the story of the Ramayana as a kid; Sita is basically a pawn tossed around by the good guys and bad guys. The supposedly happy ending is where Rama’s skepticism that she hasn’t been raped, and therefore defiled while she was kidnapped, is proven wrong, so he takes her back. I’m guessing this is going to be a more progressive interpretation, especially since the title centers Sita.

By: Katie

Katie — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:07:23 +0000

I’ve been waiting to see this for months! Hooray!

By: PhDork

PhDork — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 00:27:23 +0000

Gary, Nina’s blog will have all the info, and your question about “why not check?” has come up a lot. The short answer, from what I know, is that she did check relative to the songwriters’s rights, but that turned out not to be an issue–it’s about the megacorps that own the recordings themselves. I don’t think Nina thinks that all copyright is terrible, just that it’s been stretched and stretched (by the Disney folks, among others) to cover things it was never intended to cover, because of corporate greed.

By: Gary LaPointe

Gary LaPointe — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 21:49:07 +0000

It even had an animated intermission with a countdown which was very cool.

I wish they had an intermission in Watchmen at 2.5+ hours!

By: Gary LaPointe

Gary LaPointe — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 21:47:34 +0000

I saw this at the Montezuma Film Festival in Costa Rica but it wasn’t on the list (or at one of the regular venues) so maybe that was because of copyright issues(?). So I can’t say it was officially a the festival.

It was a very cool movie with different types of animation during different types of scenes in the movie. I only caught about 1/2 of it, so I’ll be watching this on-line.

Someone there mentioned the some issues with the copyright/royalties with distribution. And I’ll voice the same question I had then, didn’t they check into the rights before spending time (years) making the movie? (Yes, I’ll go read her blog to check out more, I’ve never checked on the why/how of the problems.)