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I'm in complete agreement with you,
except that what we want and what really happens likely won't align.
NBC keeps rolling out different versions of classic musicals.
Creates buzz, people get a chance to think about the source material, debate the merits --
Then the thing gets televised, maybe it's o-k, maybe not, and it sinks into Who-Cares-Land.
The classics will stand on their own legs -- unless they don't, and the Newer Generation will have created something else.
WSS is an update of Romeo & Juliet. Did a damn fine job of it. We almost forget it's Shakespeare.
Younger generations move us forward. How they do it, we have little control of.
But will they? If they were so deluded and stupid to back him in the first place, they won't meekly admit they were wrong and stampede in the opposite direction.
We have some seriously entrenched idiots who love Wrong-Wing extremism. They are called Nazis, and they have been empowered.
This reminds me of the play No Exit, I think by Jean-Paul Sartre.
People are in a room, two women and a man. They don't know why they are there.
They start discussing their dilemma.
Why are they here? Why are they locked in a room with strangers?
They begin to dislike each other, they quibble and argue, and gradually think they'd rather Be In Hell than this.
Then it seems they might Really be in Hell -- and This is what it's Like.
Since you were so nice to give a response, I'll mention the other day I had a BV ep' on, and I really liked that Richard Long and Peter Breck maybe could pass as real brothers. They were standing near each other, and they were face shots (not full body), and I really thought they looked like they might be actual brothers.
Different people, not much alike, but the hair and facial structure seemed close enough where I could easily thin they were kin.
I get tired of random casting of people who don't look at all alike, and we're supposed to think the are bros & sis.
This is all very cool. But from what I remember from the movie, he was a broke street busker, so how he managed this, plus the physical reality of moving a Piano into an upstairs apartment ... it all seems like an expensive proposition, and he didn't seem like he had the resources.
But it's nit-picking. I have nothing against a fairy-tale ending, but I like a film to have it's own integrity, that what happens within it makes sense. YMMV.
While I agree with you entirely, I also have to acknowledge that time moves on, and what moves me (or you) may not move a younger generation. I wish they were more in tune with the artistry it takes to create things like WSS or Casablanca (more going on than what appears !), but that's the nature of life -- young people want to create their own culture, not follow in their predecessors footsteps (see Rebel W/O a Cause). At some point a lot of them will figure it out, but as a group they will struggle and strive to create something that resonates with them -- even if it's Retro !
I see you staring into a mirror yelling "Raving Lunatic. RAY-Ving LOON-A-TIC !!"
Gosh -- pointing out the speck in another's eye while ignoring the log in your own. How Republican of you.
Thank you so much for saying this. You have my hearty regards.
Casual dining? What does that mean?
I used to enjoy the all-night joints in Chicago where we'd drink cheap beer and cruise around into all hours and find ourselves hungry around 2-3-4 in the morning. There's be some place, often a Greek place, Open All Night. We'd usually get breakfast food, but the menu was open,
That was 30 years ago. Nowadays, I should be with the oatmeal eating crowd, but I'm not willing to be that feeble yet.
JFC ! Your second salvo was a literal -- a LITERAL alphabetic compilation of whatever crimes that might come to mind, a real cut-&-paste job Real thoughtful there -- NOT !!
And you obviously hate liberals w/o giving much thought to policy, so --
Have At It. No one takes you seriously, so rant and blab away. I was hoping for better.
TL, DR
The old Westerns weren't necessarily "creative" as in ground-breaking, but they can be surprisingly thoughtful when looking at them stand-alone.
I don't like Bonanza much, but it has it's moments.
The Big Valley, I love Stanwyck for her film work, and like Nick as a manly-man, while Jarrod is more cerebral.
Lee Majors could have been played by a Wooden Indian, he was that bad.
The young Linda Evans(tad) was too gorgeous to even comment on. YOW
But I've come to really appreciate Gunsmoke. It was gritty, while also giving a lesson in morality.
Bad Guys were Bad, Good Guys were Good, amidst difficult terrain to transverse.
I find the stories to be very compelling, bad guys trying to shove around good guys, and what is the law gonna do about it?
Dillon always sticks with the Law, then tries to bend it to suit his agenda.
"One more complaint, I'm gonna run you out of this country," even though he may not have enough real evidence to do so.
I like it. Let's get proper outcomes, be thoughtful and compassionate in a harsh, cold world.
It would take a better Theater Head than I to come up with something that would be considered WSS yet somehow different and better.
Considering the source material is Shakespeare, if someone wanted to re-adapt a story that reflects the themes of this tragedy, the field is wide open. If they chose to use the Bernstein / Sondheim music, I guess they could go through the estates and get rights, etc.
The music is beautiful, timeless, as is Shakespeare.
So I guess someone shouldn't try and change it, as much as they should just straight-up Revive it.
Cast the right people, (mixed ethnicity, idk), and just re-present it and give all the original creators their due.
I don't necessarily want a rap or hip-hop version, but I'm behind the times in that regard, so if someone can make that work -- that's o-k, too.
But very funny. Not sad at all. Thanks for the "'splainin' Lucy". Cheers.
I like both but I don't see much similarity. Yoakam seems like a country / rockabilly / Elvis kind of performer.
Petty's a straight up rocker except for having a lot of variations in his songs. I don't recall much country in his sound, but with how deep his catalog is, there may be that in there.
I recently saw High Society for the first time. Didn't know it was a re-make of one of my favorites, The Philadelphia Story.
They even used the same names for the characters.
In that light, it was AWFUL ! If it were it's own movie and they subtly shifted some of narrative around, maybe it would have been o-k. Nothing wrong with looking at Grace Kelly for a couple hours. But comparing it to TPS is downright painful.
Ah, I probably should have figured that out. I sorta figured Term 2 wasn't right, but since it's such a cool flick and it came to mind, I thought I'd mention it. I knew I was being lazy by not checking who the director of Term2 was, but I just wanted to bring it up.