Since I bought my first mandolin six months ago - and have been subsequently teaching myself how to play this lovely instrument - I have noticed more mandolins and their unique music in many movies. Captain Correli's Mandolin springs to everyone's mind, of course, but how many other movies of mandolin note (pun) can we name. I went to see Ella Enchanted. Guys, it really is just for little girls, and big litte girls such as myself. Anyway, Ella was ordered to practice her mandolin. #Which she dutifully did, as she was under a spell. #However, she played it with a bow. #Hmmm. It can be done. I watched Ragtime on the idiot-box Friday night. Someone was playing a mando in the core area of 1904 Philidelphia as Evelyn Nesbit search the deserted flat of her Jewish artist friend. There was a mando being played by the hillbilly musicians in Cold Mountain. ( I think.) Anyhow, people, name your favorite and not so favorite mandolin employed movies.
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