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

Posted by: AlanScott 03:55 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
Thomas sounds like an intelligent person, but it's hard for me to fathom how some of the things she talks about will work. Some of them seem to really go against the spirit of the source material even as she talks about going back to Colette. Making Gigi 18 and Gaston not much older . . . that is so not Colette. It's what she and the others involved think today's audiences need (which she admits). And maybe audiences today do need it, but it certainly is not going back to Colette. Personally, I'm not sure that people really do need it changed quite that much.

I can see how someone might think that the way to solve "Thank Heaven for Little Girls" (which, I agree, is a problem song nowadays) is to give it to Mamita and Alicia, but, really, what are they singing about when they get to:

Those little eyes so helpless and appealing
One day will flash and send you crashing through the ceiling

I don't see how that can be about anything but a little girl growing up into a beautiful woman who excites men and may cause confusion and consternation in them, especially men who knew her as a girl. Which is a thought that Mamita and Alicia certainly could express, but not from the personal point of view that "you" suggests.

I suppose they could change "you" to "men," but . . . they'd be better off cutting the song.


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