The Sting - Preparing Scene - Pineapple Rag

[LakewooodWestPark]

My all time favorite movie. GREAT music to boot!

[Mortthemoose]

I am 47 years old, and I am ashamed to say I have only just watched The Sting!

Absolutely fantastic!! Loved it!

[gmonkey808]

Maybe the best film and soundtrack of all time.

Always watched it with my Grandad. Happy times.

[OperaMystery80]

What period is it in this film ? If this is supposed to be the turn of the century 1900 through 1912 I don't think they did a good job of representing that period. The clothes look more like fashions of the 20's and 30's. This has more of a Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald novel feel. Robert Redford was also in The Great Gatsby and the costumes he wears look the same in both films

[TnseWlms]

@OperaMystery80 The opening scene in the movie very clearly states it takes place in September 1936. But Scott Joplin's ragtime music prevailed in the 1900's.

[congoguy]

@OperaMystery80 The film is set in 1938, but the ragtime music was indeed more popular in the 1900's. George Roy Hill (director) and Marvin Hamlisch (composer/adapter) decided that most audiences of the 1970's wouldn't catch or care about this fact. What mattered more was the tongue-in-cheek mood set by the music. Personally I think it was a great choice!

[33rosyposy]

Amazing acting and seriously like two of the sexiest guys you will ever see. I'm surprised the whole set didn't just burst into flames from their combined awesomeness.

[sillybabybunnies]

damned but the boys look good in this scene.

no homo, though

[jjf006]

God Bless the CBC and their insomniac programming. Classics like these would otherwise go unnoticed...

[confettigirl1]

@RagtimePassion it is actually Gondorff, to be correctly speaking.

[letsgonyrangers11]

this is a GREAT movie... and a good scene , too.

[brabazon10]

if only Scott Joplin had been able to be alive, to hear how they used his music for this movie. The guy ended up destitute. very fitting that Marvin Hamlisch should see fit to use this music. brilliant.

[bilicana]

at 0,47 seconds he looks bratt pitt looking at mirror...;-)

[worldwartwoforever]

Robert Redford is such a cute flirt in the beginning of this vid. <3

[RagtimePassion]

I hope you will enjoy MY PINEAPPLE, even if I could not dress myself like Mr. Gondof!

[pianorags]

brilliant film,responsible for bringing ragtime music back 5/5

[rogerrodd]

Simply the best chemistry between 2 actors in terms of dramatic AND comedic skills in the history of Hollywood.

[piuotre]

Not the best scene, but a good one .

[AmericanEvita]

I like Scott Joplin's Pineapple Rag played a tad more slowly in the first section. It can be very melancholy and nostalgic in feeling when played in a moderate walking pace. The energy picks up in the middle and it becomes upbeat but then again slows down and ends. Most people play this piece really fast like in this movie, doesn't work for me!

[FiverBeyond]

@AmericanEvita

Scott Joplin himself said that most people play rags too fast. I love the slow, deliberate feeling of a properly played rag.

[AmericanEvita]

@FiverBeyond Me too. It should be played at a moderate walking pace. Ragtime was very enjoyable and leisurely; it wasn't meant to be serious classical music; but if played too fast, the melody and beauty of even these delightful leisurely tunes is lost. A slower tempi is preferable; at least moderate and in between fast and slow.

[gustovo134]

good quality

[ijcn0jir3nvjn3fjcifn]

both great. Legends. These guys make Clooney, Pitt, Damon etc look like nerds

[ALMC04]

One of a number of truly memorable scenes from this movie.

[1281Anne]

They're both handsome and cute, but I find Redford more appealing :)

[crazyshuurei]

HAHA so cute! he's so handsome!

[JOHNSTAGS]

You speaking of Newman or Redford? :)