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Another great one from [MENTION=14321]thewalruswasdanny[/MENTION]!
Czech Republic CZECH REPUBLIC 2015 - Marta Jandová & Václav Noid Bárta - Hope Never Dies
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Another great one from [MENTION=14321]thewalruswasdanny[/MENTION]!
anto475
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Haven't listened to the song yet but just googled Václav and his arms. Douze Points.
Iuris
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Top 1 so far. 
RainyWoods
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What exactly is wrong with our film studios, which are - modesty aside - the biggest and best equipped in the whole Europe? I'm not exaggerated nationalist, I swear, but Czech film industry is in fact one of the few things I believe we can be quite proud of.
My favourite film ever "Valerie and Her Week of Wonders" was filmed in your country. I get shivers from just even watching the trailer for it. It's such an achingly beautiful, daring film from the Czech new wave.
Ritararita
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It´s one of my all time favorites too.
There are basically two parallel lines of Czech cinema - one of them consisting of "art/festival films", the other one of genre films (mostly fantasy movies and comedies). Valerie and Her Week of Wonders is a rare case of an unexpected merge of these two "waves". But it´s probably off-topic. 
anto475
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thirst never dies
just listened to the song. not terribly impressed tbh. still douze points tho #arms
RevNet
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THE GOOD
-They have good voices, and the instrumentals do have their dramatics.
THE BAD
-I found the song quite boring.
-It was also a bit annoying in parts.
THE VERDICT
Here is a middle-of-the-road song that will most likely not make the Final. It is also proof that a song can have dramatics and still sound boring. 6 points
-They have good voices, and the instrumentals do have their dramatics.
THE BAD
-I found the song quite boring.
-It was also a bit annoying in parts.
THE VERDICT
Here is a middle-of-the-road song that will most likely not make the Final. It is also proof that a song can have dramatics and still sound boring. 6 points
Ritararita
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Composer and music producer Ondřej Soukup, whose responsibility was to pick the Czech ESC song and interpret, wrote a blog post on idnes.cz. It´s quite long and considering my limited English, I will not even try to translate it. However, here are some informations:
1) Soukup notes that in the Czech Republic, Eurovision has not good reputation, but he thinks it is mostly because of the disrespectful way Czech journalists are writing about it, and also because of our fiascos in 2007-2009 participation. As a comparison, he reminds that Germany participated 58 times, 13 times ending in TOP 3 and 5 times ending in the last place. So, our results are not a big deal for him.
2) When he was asked in November to chose some composers and interprets, he decided not to pick them based on their local popularity (which, as he says, means nothing abroad), but more on their musical abilities. It sounds like Marta and Václav were actually the only candidates from the first moment, as he did not mentioned anything about other considered candidates.
3) To Soukup´s surprise, some foreign composers sent him songs without being asked, most of them from United Kingdom. Total number of songs between which he was deciding, was 28, 15 of them by Czech composers. Noid originally composed something else, which Soukup din´t like, and "Hope Never Dies" was composed spontaneously a day before they sent it (with two other songs) to jury of experts.
4) He also mentioned that Marta, Václav and him were invited to Eurovision parties in London and Moscau. They accepted London and ignored Moscau.
1) Soukup notes that in the Czech Republic, Eurovision has not good reputation, but he thinks it is mostly because of the disrespectful way Czech journalists are writing about it, and also because of our fiascos in 2007-2009 participation. As a comparison, he reminds that Germany participated 58 times, 13 times ending in TOP 3 and 5 times ending in the last place. So, our results are not a big deal for him.
2) When he was asked in November to chose some composers and interprets, he decided not to pick them based on their local popularity (which, as he says, means nothing abroad), but more on their musical abilities. It sounds like Marta and Václav were actually the only candidates from the first moment, as he did not mentioned anything about other considered candidates.
3) To Soukup´s surprise, some foreign composers sent him songs without being asked, most of them from United Kingdom. Total number of songs between which he was deciding, was 28, 15 of them by Czech composers. Noid originally composed something else, which Soukup din´t like, and "Hope Never Dies" was composed spontaneously a day before they sent it (with two other songs) to jury of experts.
4) He also mentioned that Marta, Václav and him were invited to Eurovision parties in London and Moscau. They accepted London and ignored Moscau.
lilka
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And what happens if you win? :twisted:I've read on youtube that Czech television is already planning to pull out of the contest after this year yet again, no matter what happens
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Ritararita
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I've read on youtube that Czech television is already planning to pull out of the contest after this year yet again, no matter what happens
Czech TV is notorious for one thing - as a TV funded by people´s money, it´s terrified of anything controversial. Because if they spent "our" money on something what is not appreciated by majority of the viewers, they can´t simply say "We will broadcast whatever we want and we don´t care what do you think about it."
So, I think the crucial problem with this "yes, we are participating, but please, don´t tell it to anyone" attitude is that Eurovision is still seen as some controversial freakshow. We must change that somehow.Czech TV is notorious for one thing - as a TV funded by people´s money, it´s terrified of anything controversial. Because if they spent "our" money on something what is not appreciated by majority of the viewers, they can´t simply say "We will broadcast whatever we want and we don´t care what do you think about it."
I think that would even go so far, that they would refuse to host it if they had to and still pull out. No one has realised yet how Eurovision got serious again over the last 5 years.
Ritararita
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Well, I´m not so pessimistic. After all, CT´s current management is totally different than it was in 2007-2009 years and it definitely shows in many aspects of CT´s acquisitions as well as their own TV formats. For instance, I can't imagine CT´s old management giving their thumbs up to something so "controversial" as was the recent Czech remake of British series "The Office". But I guess the difference is that 6 episodes of darkly humorous sitcom is possible to make on a shoestring budget, so in case of its failure is not such a tragedy. To invest in Eurovision (and I mean, to its real promotion etc.) and fail is probably much more problematic.
3rd czech song that is gonna be in my top 10 & 4th czech song that i love
Keep it up,ČT
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