There must be absolutely no intimation that she and Bert have a romantic relationship, as they seem to do in the 1964 film's "Jolly Holiday" sequence (whose mix of live action and animation, by the way, was a terrible decision), nor may Bert, a character who is not in the books, have as prominent a part in the sequel, nor may he do any magic on his own, nor may Dick Van Dyke play the role again.
In 1991, Gordon was watching a Holiday programme sequence about the Dominican Republic: "Suddenly [Dando] said, straight to camera, 'I must warn you the Dominican Republic shares the island with another country called Haiti – do not go there by mistake, because Haiti is a country of dictatorships, military coups, death, black magic and voodoo.' I thought, all that and hot weather?
People argue so much on vacation because the occasion so often falls short of the desire: the desire is for rest, peace, no pressure, and a sense of being away from one's usual self, and your average family holiday sets fire in comic sequence to each of these high hopes.
"What other groups can we offend?" When the Nutcracker suggests holiday shoppers, a whirlwind Trepak sequence propels a spin through several stores ("Let's take a look in Bloomingdale's/Built for the fashionista males" is a typical lyric) before a trio of battling waiters extol the culinary virtues of their competing Russian restaurants in a musical mix of Mother Ginger and "Dance of the Clowns".
Then we did a sequence of summer holidays planned around Mediterranean sailing schools.
The singing moves between traditional melodic passages and sequences in which Holiday sounds like he's splitting the difference between talking and singing, a trick that R. Kelly has made great use of.
"Holiday" consists of a four-bar sequence, featuring instrumentation from guitars, electronic drums and handclaps from the Oberheim DMX, cowbell played by Madonna and a synthesized string arrangement.
Everybody starts their holiday feeling like they're in an opening sequence from Hergé's Adventures of Tintin.
After a demonstration period using two semantically similar sequences (hobby garden, hobby car) four different types of themes (holiday, illness, crime and profession) were presented for episodic encoding.
The film begins with as stunning a special-effects sequence as I've ever seen, in which a tsunami sweeps over an Asian holiday resort.
