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

Posted by: singleticket 04:27 pm EST 11/21/14
In reply to: ''Gigi'': ''Overnight, there's been a ... change in you'' - WaymanWong 02:24 pm EST 11/21/14

So we have re-contextualized… it’s now sung by Mamita and Alicia about Gigi. That seemed to remove all the thorns from the rose.

Since, you know, a rose with thorns can have a prick.


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re: ''Gigi Dilemma

Posted by: hitbycab 10:18 am EST 11/22/14
In reply to: re: ''Gigi'': ''Overnight, there's been a ... change in you'' - singleticket 04:27 pm EST 11/21/14

I taped THE DOCTOR'S DILEMMA (sp?)on TCM...an obscure Leslie Caron movie with Dirk Bogarde
When I went to watch, it was GIGI!!
So I started watching and OY VEY!!...when Maurice Chevalier sings THANK HEAVEN, my skin was crawling....It was so not right in this day and age....an absolute shame but true nonetheless.

Good move on the producer's part...


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re: ''Gigi Dilemma

Posted by: LegitOnce 08:01 pm EST 11/23/14
In reply to: re: ''Gigi Dilemma - hitbycab 10:18 am EST 11/22/14

You do realize that this movie was neither made in "this day and age" not set in "this day and age." right? People who were making movies half a century ago are not responsible to ignorant audiences today.


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re: ''Gigi Dilemma

Posted by: Greg_M 12:38 pm EST 11/23/14
In reply to: re: ''Gigi Dilemma - hitbycab 10:18 am EST 11/22/14

If watching Maurice Chevalier sing "Thank Heaven For Little Girls" makes your skin crawl, I hope I don't catch that skin disease. Is it contagious?


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re: ''Gigi Dilemma

Posted by: singleticket 01:37 pm EST 11/22/14
In reply to: re: ''Gigi Dilemma - hitbycab 10:18 am EST 11/22/14

It was so not right in this day and age….

Why?


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re: ''Gigi Dilemma

Posted by: Alcindoro 08:56 pm EST 11/22/14
In reply to: re: ''Gigi Dilemma - singleticket 01:37 pm EST 11/22/14

>It was so not right in this day and age...<

But GIGI was not written to be about "this day and age". That's pretty clear by the music and dialogue and costumes and sets and of the film. Granted, it was written in the late 50s, just previous to a decade when the social status of women was about to undergo a huge change. But are things really THAT different today? Are young girls today not bombarded with images of hot, sexy, idealized women and subliminally (and not so subliminally) told this is what they should aspire to, what is expected of them? I don't find the basic ideas of GIGI all that hard to understand and imposing a modern slant on the material is basically trying to make it into something it isn't. I also think the sheer stylishness of presentation and visual beauty of the film is a major component of the story and not one that can be easily transferred to the stage.


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re: ''Gigi Dilemma

Posted by: singleticket 11:33 pm EST 11/22/14
In reply to: re: ''Gigi Dilemma - Alcindoro 08:56 pm EST 11/22/14

Are young girls today not bombarded with images of hot, sexy, idealized women and subliminally (and not so subliminally) told this is what they should aspire to, what is expected of them?

Especially if they watched Brittney and Miley change overnight from Disney to vixen.


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