Both opera and film composers join music to words and images, but in opera the composer must win, whereas in film the composer must be a gracious loser. Despite the self-congratulation that film composers indulge in around Oscar time, their contribution to a film is equivalent to the lighting director's contribution to an opera. Previn seems to have assumed that an opera could be written like film music. Most of the libretto is dialogue, fast interchanges of information and emotion between characters. My shirt is sticking to me.
Perspiration is healthy.
If people didn't perspire they would die in five minutes. This is a nice coat. They call that stuff alpaca. It's very light weight alpaca. Onscreen Vivien Leigh and Karl Malden make this exchange a funny-painful game of cat and mouse.