52 Films by Women Vol 3. 7. PITCH PERFECT 3 (Director: Trish Sie)
I love the 2003 pop song Toxic , performed in an airline stewardess outfit by Britney Spears. I can barely distinguish the lyrics (‘with the taste of your lips/I’m on a ride/you’re toxic I’m slipping under’) but it’s the arrangement that gets me – the upbeat poppy tempo, occasional Bollywood violins and twangy guitar. Cathy Dennis, who co-wrote the song and has a 50% stake in the royalties, earns about $20,000 a year from it (fact courtesy of Billboard) which I hope is paid to her promptly. Toxic almost book-ends the comedy sequel, Pitch Perfect 3 , helmed by choreographer-turned-film and music video director Trish Sie ( Step Up: All In , videos for the band OK Go). The Bellas, an A-Cappella all-women singing group, are giving a private performance to a group of gentlemen on a luxury yacht when Amy (Rebel Wilson) crashes through the window and sprays the men with a fire extinguisher. Amy and Beca (Anna Kendrick), the recurring A B notes of the series, then leap from the yacht’s stern ...