| re: The Estrogen Mafia | |
| Posted by: steven_carter 11:16 am EDT 05/01/24 | |
| In reply to: re: The Estrogen Mafia - AnObserver 10:36 am EDT 05/01/24 | |
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| I do agree that the recent musicalization of SOME LIKE IT HOT completely missed the essence of Billy Wilder's original work, and of even the Peter Stone/Jule Styne/Bob Merrill adaption of the same material, SUGAR. The characters in SLIH are supposed to enjoy sex! The entire "boat" scene was ruined...and pointless...because-as the new book repeatedly told us-NOBODY HAD SEX (that would be exploitation or predator behavior, I guess??? Aren't the characters adults?). Wilder wrote the delightful flip where Sugar gets to be the seducer in that scene: funny, charming, sexy..... And the Sugar character (as well as the recent woman leads in the Bdwy versions of TOOTSIE, GROUNDHOG DAY, even CINDERELLA including BAD CINDERELLA, etc....) lost her arc and the meat of her character. If a lead woman character always already starts with "agency", strength, and smarts, the authors take away any journey or growth we can experience with her. It's not only boring, but it's untrue to life. Many of us (regardless of which gender) are often vulnerable, unsure, searching.... and that's what makes the payoff (for Sugar, for example, in the original SLIH or even in SUGAR) so fulfilling. I guess the question is not only "Aren't the characters (in these examples) adults?" but also, "Aren't WE, the audience, adults?" Some of this new conception of characters treats US (the audience) as fragile children. |
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