ABBA: The Movie Page #5

Synopsis: Movie detailing ABBA's mega-successful tour of Australia during mid-1977. While it mostly contains back-stage footage and as well as ABBA's famous songs such as "Dancing Queen", "Tiger", "Name Of The Game" and "Eagle" among others sung filmed during their concerts in Sydney, Melbourne, Perth and Adelaide, it has the sub-plot of young country and western radio disc-jockey, Ashley, whose boss orders him to have a deep interview with ABBA and the problems he has trying to reach them as he forgets his press pass and ABBA's main bodyguard, (Tom Oliver) is determined to stop him...
Director(s): Lasse Hallström
Production: Warner Bros. Pictures
 
IMDB:
6.4
G
Year:
1977
95 min
455 Views


And I couldnt help it,

I just had to kiss the teacher

One of these days

Gonna tell him I dream of him every night

One of these days

Gonna show him I care,

gonna teach him a lesson alright

What a crazy day,

when I kissed the teacher

All my sense had flown away

when I kissed the teacher

My whole class went wild

As I held my breath, the world stood still,

but then he just smiled

I was in the seventh heaven

when I kissed the teacher

(I wanna hug, hug, hug him)

When I kissed the teacher

Hey,

I'll tell you something about ABBA!

Do you know that ABBA's in the Bible?

It means "father".

- It's in Mark.

- I didn't know that.

The Gospel according to St. Mark.

Chapter 16.

"Abba the Father", it says. He told me.

I thought he was pulling my leg.

It's right in there. A-b-b-a.

Abba - Father.

I've got to get that interview.

I've just got to get it.

Get on the carousel

Get on the carousel

Get on

The roundabout is just beginning

Get on

It's fun to see the world a-spinning

Get on the carousel

Well, all I really wanna do is get off

Get on the carousel

Well, all I really wanna do is get off

Get on

Your happiness is waiting for you

(It's only making me scared)

Get on

Be famous, let the world adore you

(Well, I don't know if I care)

Get on the carousel

Well, all I really wanna do is get off

Get on the carousel

Oh... I really wanna go

I feel so dizzy I wanna go

Listen!

Now I dont think I can take much more

So cant you tell em to make it slow

Listen!

I want the speed that I had before

Im feeling sick and I wanna stop

Spinning!

So wont you let me get off this thing?

I got a feeling I reached the top

Spinning!

I only wanted to dance and sing

The roundabout is just beginning

Get on...

(Oh, please)

It's fun to see the world a-spinning

Get on the carousel

Well all I really wanna do is get off

Get on the carousel

Well all I really wanna do is get off

Get on

Your happiness is waiting for you

(It's only making me scared)

Get on

Be famous, let the world adore you

(Well, I don't know if I care)

Get on the carousel

Well all I really wanna do is get off

Get on the carousel

Oh... I really wanna go

I feel so dizzy I wanna go

Listen!

Now I dont think I can take much more

So wont you tell em to make it slow

Listen!

I want the speed that I had before

Im feeling sick and I wanna stop

Spinning!

So wont you let me get off this thing?

I got a feeling I reached the top

Spinning!

I only wanted to dance and sing

Hey! Can everybody just... Let's see

some of the people in the back-

- by some of the people in the front

dropping down a little bit.

Okay, everybody! Looking up this way,

and a bit of action!

- Take it easy, will you!

- Stop it, will you.

Come on, fellas.

No pushing, eh? Take it easy.

- Excuse me. Please...

- Not you again.

Just five minutes. Please.

- Not tonight, Josephine.

- Just for five minutes?

- Can I...?

- No, you can't.

Melbourne...?

Ashley...

Did you say Melbourne?

At 7.30 tomorrow night...

I have...

Ashley, I have told 40,000 people

that at 7.30 tomorrow night-

- we will give them

a two-hour ABBA radio special.

In depth, with warmth... and sincerity.

Please, Ashley...

Please?

Hello there!

Excuse me...

You are ABBA's manager, aren't you?

- Yes, I am.

- I hope you can help me.

- I have to get an interview with ABBA.

- Ignore this man, Mr. Anderson.

- He's crazy.

- Take it easy, will you!

I'm doing a radio special, and it

has to be on air tomorrow night.

I really need that interview.

But Mr. Anderson...

I'm really desperate.

If you're down in the reception

by 10 o'clock tomorrow morning...

...I will arrange this for you. Okay?

- For sure?

- I'll get to talk to them?

- Okay. Bye-bye.

From concert to concert

from town to town

as though her whole world was spinning

She got what she wanted, and yet

she feels like a marionette!

You're so free

That's what everybody's telling me

Yet I feel I'm like an outward-bound,

pushed around, refugee

Something's wrong,

got a feeling that I don't belong

As if I have come from outer space,

out of place, like King Kong

I'm a marionette, just a marionette,

pull the string

I'm a marionette, everybody's pet,

just as long as I sing

I'm a marionette, see my pirouette,

'round and 'round

I'm a marionette, I'm a marionette,

just a silly old clown

Like a doll,

like a puppet with no will at all

And somebody taught me how to talk,

how to walk, how to fall

Can't complain,

I've got no-one but myself to blame

Something's happening I can't control,

lost my hold, it's insane

Look this way, just a little smile,

is what they say

You look better on the photograph

if you laugh, that's okay!!

I'm a marionette, just a marionette,

pull the string

I'm a marionette, everybody's pet,

just as long as I sing

I'm a marionette, see my pirouette,

'round and 'round

I'm a marionette, I'm a marionette,

just a silly old clown

I'm a marionette

I feel something's wrong,

got a feeling that I don't belong

As if I have come from outer space,

out of place, like King Kong

I'm a marionette, just a marionette,

pull the string

I'm a marionette, everybody's pet,

just as long as I sing

I'm a marionette, see my pirouette,

'round and 'round

I'm a marionette, I'm a marionette,

just a silly old clown

I'm a marionette

One. Two.

Three. Four.

Five. Six.

Seven. Eight.

Nine. Ten.

Hurry!

They're 3,80 dollars.

One, two, three, four - and again.

One, two, three, four.

Okay, and we change across.

Down again. One, two, three, four.

Last time.

One, two, three, four.

So sit down please. There are

a lot of children behind you-

- who want to en joy this concert

as much as you. Dont you?

It is time to get your rocks on!

First row, right? Thank you.

Everybody on stage!

All right! Ten minutes

and away we go!

We want ABBA! We want ABBA!

Now we're old and grey, Fernando

Since many years I haven't

seen a rifle in your hand

Can you hear the drums, Fernando?

Do you still recall the fateful night

we crossed the Rio Grande?

I can see it in your eyes

How proud you were to fight

for freedom in this land

There was something in the air that night

The stars were bright, Fernando

They were shining there for you and me

For liberty, Fernando

Though we never thought that we could lose

There's no regret

If I had to do the same again

I would, my friend, Fernando

Yes, if I had to do the same again

I would, my friend, Fernando

Thank you. Thank you so much.

- I'm goanna talk to them tomorrow.

- Really?

- Yeah. Interview them.

- Really?

- Yeah.

- Good luck.

There was something in the air that night

The stars were bright, Fernando

They were shining there for you and me

For liberty, Fernando

Though we never thought that we could lose

There's no regret

If I had to do the same again

I would, my friend, Fernando

If I had to do the same again

I would, my friend, Fernando

Youve been sitting for a long time now

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Robert Caswell

Robert Caswell (13 July 1946 – 29 October 2006) was an Australian screenwriter of films and television. In the 1970s and early 1980s he was one of the leading writers in Australian television. After the success of Evil Angels, for which he received an Oscar nomination, he moved to Hollywood and became a leading "script doctor". more…

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