Absobloominlutely still

Después de 5 meses viviendo en Rosanna nos decidimos por fin a hacernos socios del videoclub del barrio. Todo un trámite, pero todo sea por seguir el sabio consejo de ver las películas en inglés con subtítulos (en inglés también, se entiende). Una de las primeras fue, como no, My Fair Lady.

Hay que decir que nos lo pasamos pipa viéndola. Ya todos sabemos decir correctamente 'the rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain'. Aunque por estas tierras no es muy útil, pues la pronunciación habitual es tal y como la hacía Eliza Doolittle antes de ser moldeada por su particular Pigmalión. Esta famosa frase fue traducida en español como "La lluvia en Sevilla es una pura maravilla", aunque hay otra versión: "La lluvia en España los bellos valles baña". Estos traductores, siempre tan creativos. Aunque en otros idiomas tampoco se quedan cortos: portugués, "O rei de Roma ruma a Madrid" o "Atrás do trem as tropas vem trotando"; holandés, "De franje in Spanje is meestal niet oranje".

Otis todavía pide que le pongamos la película de Eliza. Se ha quedado prendado. Pero, ejem, no sé si es bueno que se aficione tanto a los musicales. Tal vez debería ponerle algunas películas del Oeste.

Para mi, sin duda, lo mejor de la película es Stanley Holloway, en el papel del padre de Eliza. Aquí lo vemos tras haber ganado un premio por ser el moralista más original de Inglaterra y verse sometido a las reglas de la moralidad de la clase media.

Y que me decís de "With a little bit o'luck". Ahí os dejo la letra para que cantéis y bailéis a gusto:

The Lord above gave man an arm of iron

So he could do his job and never shirk

The Lord above gave man an arm of iron, but

With a little bit o' luck

With a little bit o' luck

Someone else'll do the blinkin' work!

With a little bit

With a little bit

With a little bit o' luck you'll never work

The Lord above made liquor for temptation

To see if man could turn away from sin

The Lord above made liquorfor temptation, but

with a little bit o' luck

With a little bit o' luck

When temptation comes you'll give right in.

With a little bit

With a little bit

With a little bit o' luck you'll give right in.

Oh, you can walk the straight and narrow

But with a little bit o' luck you'll run amuck!

The gentle sex was madefor man to marry

To share his nestand see his food is cooked

The gentle sex was made for man to marry, but

With a little bit o' luck

With a little bit o' luck

You can have it all and not get hooked.

With a little bit

With a little bit

With a little bit o' luck you won't get hooked

With a little bit

With a little bit

With a little bit o' bloomin' luck!

They're always throwing goodness at you

But with a little bit o' luck a man can duck

The Lord above made manto 'elp his neighbor

No matter where on land, or sea, or foam

The Lord above made manto 'elp his neighbor, but

With a little bit o' luck

With a little bit o' luck

When he comes around you won't be home

.....

A man was madeto 'elp support his children

Which is the right and proper thing to do

A man was madeto 'elp support his children, but

With a little bit o' luck

With a little bit o' luck

They'll go out and start supportin' you

With a little bit

With a little bit

With a little bit o' luck they'll work for you

With a little bit

With a little bit

With a little bit o' bloomin' luck!

lt's a crime for a man to go philanderin'

And fill his wife's poor 'eartwith grief and doubt

lt's a crime for a manto go philanderin', but

With a little bit o' luck

With a little bit o' luck

You can see the bloodhounds don't find out!

With a little bit

With a little bit

With a little bit o' luck she won't find out!

With a little bit o' bloomin' luck!