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

Posted by:	WaymanWong 12:32 am EST 11/23/14
In reply to:	re: ''Gigi'': ''Overnight, there's been a ... change in you'' - LegitOnce 10:41 am EST 11/22/14

Very well-stated, LegitOnce. If you change Gigi's age of 15 to 18, and you change the thirtysomething Gaston to the same age as Gigi, and you make them ''childhood friends,'' is this really Colette's ''Gigi'' anymore? Colette wrote about a naive 15-year-old being groomed to be a courtesan for older men (and Gaston's reaction to that). Heidi Thomas says: ''We make it very clear that she is 18, because we want a modern audience to be comfortable with this.'' If you want Vanessa Hudgens to play a girl who's just as innocent as her beau, why not adapt ''High School Musical''?

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