South Pacific - Part 3 of 13

Bali Gay

In the movie, newly arrived Lieutenant Cable runs into Bloody Mary, who sings Bali Hai (the most beautiful song in South Pacific, in my opinion), about a mysterious nearby island where his dreams will come true.

In my version, Joe Cable always thought he was straight, but Bloody Mary sings that he might discover something else if he visits the island of Bali Gay.

We start with the introduction sung by Bloody Mary in the movie.  Then I change the song to instrumental music with my new words as subtitles.

Note: The 1958 movie South Pacific used weird colored filters during some of the song sequences (e.g. everything would be tinted purple or yellow or whatever).  The filters were not subtle.  See the screen capture below from the beginning of the song Bali Hai.  Yes, it's really that color in the movie.  These horrible color effects are universally hated by critics and audiences everywhere.  I don't know what the movie makers were thinking.  The colors were especially bad in the song Bali Hai, changing from purple to orange to no filter to red to purple.  I tried to fix the colors in my video editor, but there's only so much I can do.  So, if the colors look "off" in places, rest assured that it looked much worse in the original movie.

Despite the filters, which were only used during a few songs, the movie is a classic and is well worth watching.