While I'm working on my third That's Sew Cinematic garment, I think it's time for another Cover Story installment from the movie!
This scene is such a joy, from Willem Dafoe's hilarious prison-guard routine at the start, to the hilarious visual moments throughout--where does the cigar box guitar come from? What's with that bunk-on-wheels-zoom-effect?--to the song itself. "Teardrops Are Falling" was, like "Sh-Boom," originally recorded elsewhere, though: by Harlem's own Five Wings:
I don't really have much to expand on, here. The two versions are pretty different, and both pretty cool. I guess you could get back on the "black root/white fruit" thing here, but I feel as if "featured in a movie starring a white guy 35 years after original release" is a slightly different thing? Or maybe I'm just swayed in my sympathies by Johnny Depp:
