The first time I heard this song, "No Fear of Heights" I fell in love with it.
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It's a very light & lovely song in a beautiful film. I ordered it off the telly's xfinity for $4.99 for a 48 hour rental and I watched the movie at least 4 times as well as pause-rewind-play-ing the tune "No Fear of Heights" at least a dozen times. "The Tourist" is as taut a romantic thriller and visually beautiful as older films in the same genre. I'd compare it to Hitchcock's "North by Northwest" with Cary Grant & Eva Marie Saint and "Charade" with Cary Grant & Audrey Hepburn as the romantic leads. Depp & Jolie have made a classic film that thrills the senses with romance and gorgeous views Venice. Russian gangsters are trying to kill a school teacher from Wisconsin on holiday in Venice. Why?
Ah, but the song, "No Fear of Heights" came as a complete surprise. Katie Melua was known to me because she had done a duet with the deceased songbird Eva Cassidy. Katie Melua cites Eva Cassidy as her inspiration to begin singing, writing lyrics, playing guitar and composing.
"The Tourist" is rainy-day fare, to be enjoyed tea & biscuits. "No Fear of Heights" is a great cuddling song.
I was flooded with memories when I read and posted in yesterday's diary about Eva Cassidy. My comment in yesterday's diary.
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I remembered Eva Cassidy, the artists she worked with, the artists she inspired, Katie Melua's song "No Fear of Heights" in "The Tourist" brought back memories of my trips to Venice, Piazza San Marco with its iconic horses, and my almost sinking my rental car in the Grand Canal. Art can do that, open our heart again, to allow ourself to feel again.
Here's the youtube of Katie Melua singing with an already-deceased Eva Cassidy's tape playing on a background jumbotron on BBC's "Top of the Pops". "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" duet by Melua and Cassidy: http://www.youtube.com/...