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re: The song is only creepy if you choose to see it that way

Posted by:	Alcindoro 06:58 pm EST 11/22/14
In reply to:	re: The song is only creepy if you choose to see it that way - singleticket 06:38 pm EST 11/21/14

>Gaston follows an arc from doting on Gigi as "a little girl" to wanting to have sex with her.< I think that's just as dirty a view of Gaston as someone who chooses to see Honoré as a covert child molester. Gaston has the revelation that he no longer has any choice BUT to see Gigi in a different light, as a poised, beautiful - and yes, desirable - young woman, no longer a charming, playful child. His understandable desire for her is confusing for him and, like an irrational child himself, he is angry at her for it. And she cannot understand this: as LegitOnce thoughtfully points out, she is only doing what everyone expects of her and is devastated when Gaston is angered by it. For the moment, they both seem to have lost a friend. To me this has always been so very touching about the film (I've never read Collette), and "Thank Heaven" more or less encapsulates the whole message of the upcoming story in song. Perhaps it's a problem because it is the opening number of the film and we haven't had the chance to get to know and like Honoré yet, but really it had never occurred to me that it was anything pervy until I was an adult and female (and gay male) friends pointed it out to me. Maybe the solution to the number would be positioning it later in the show, perhaps as Honoré explains his philosophy to other characters. I don't think making it a duet for the two older women "fixes" anything, in fact I think it can be construed just as negatively for different reasons.

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