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re: ''Gigi'': ''Overnight, there's been a ... change in you''

Posted by: Michael_Portantiere 03:52 pm EST 11/21/14
In reply to: re: ''Gigi'': ''Overnight, there's been a ... change in you'' - keikekaze 03:23 pm EST 11/21/14
Good point. I would add that French literature is chock full of stories involving older men becoming romantically/sexually involved with much younger women. It would seem that really is, or was, an accepted fact of the French way of life.

"Thank Heaven for Little Girls" as performed by Chevalier in the film may creep us out today, but I think it's a entirely apropos for that sort of character at that time -- and, for that matter, it didn't seem to be a problem for American movie audiences in 1958. To take that song away from Honore, and to otherwise downplay his role is very contrary to the spirit and the approach of the movie musical (and I believe also the Broadway version, though I didn't see it). Will be interesting to see if the reconception of the story and characters is successful or not.


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