This is a superficial observation only, and maybe I could have fit it into one of my year-end wrap-up posts later this week, but let's just do it now and get it out of the way. I have nothing else planned for this particular Wednesday.
Blue Moon makes you think a lot about New York City, where it is set, and the show Oklahoma!, which is the catalyst for change among its characters. As I was ruminating on these topics, I was reminded that it is not the only 2025 film that features both of these elements.
Spike Lee's Highest 2 Lowest memorably opens with drone shots (or maybe they're helicopter shots) of New York City, specifically the part of Brooklyn on the opposite side of the Brooklyn Bridge from Manhattan. And what music, counterintuitively, is playing over it?
Why that would be "Oh What a Beautiful Morning" from, you guessed it, Rodgers and Hammerstein's first and most popular collaboration, the one at the center of Blue Moon, Oklahoma!
But wait that's not all.
Of course in late 2025/early 2026, we're all thinking a lot about Rob Reiner. I've already written about the guy a good five times since he passed. And he's got a role in this as well.
In Reiner's 1989 classic When Harry Met Sally, in one of their moments of bonding that is interrupted by Harry spotting his ex, Harry and Sally are walking through a store singing "Surrey With the Fringe On Top." The store is, of course, in Manhattan, and the song is, of course, from Oklahoma!
If there are more movies that would fit here, I'm not going to try to figure them out today.
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