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

Posted by: singleticket 08:52 pm EST 11/23/14
In reply to: re: The song is only creepy if you choose to see it that way - LegitOnce 08:40 pm EST 11/23/14

There is definitely innocence in Gigi both as a character and in the musical as a whole but it exists in a world that is as much Balzac as Cinderella; wry economic calculation about the heart as much as fairy tale.


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

Posted by: LegitOnce 09:06 pm EST 11/23/14
In reply to: re: The song is only creepy if you choose to see it that way - singleticket 08:52 pm EST 11/23/14

Now you're changing your argument. Please show me where in the text of the film it is shown that prior to the Trouville scene Alicia and Mamita were specifically grooming Gigi for Gaston.


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

Posted by: singleticket 09:19 pm EST 11/23/14
In reply to: re: The song is only creepy if you choose to see it that way - LegitOnce 09:06 pm EST 11/23/14

I think you're changing the argument into the one you want to have. Where did I say that Alicia and Mamita were "specifically grooming Gigi for Gaston"?

I said perhaps or perhaps not. Mamita and Alica know who Gaston is. They know the role that he's born to play just as they know the role that Gigi is born to play.

And again, I think you're wrong in seeing the musical purely as a fairy tale.


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

Posted by: LegitOnce 09:27 pm EST 11/23/14
In reply to: re: The song is only creepy if you choose to see it that way - singleticket 09:19 pm EST 11/23/14

If there is a perhaps, then you need a reason for that perhaps. There is no reason given in the movie for that "perhaps."

Perhaps Gigi is really a boy and a space alien besides. Prove that she isn't.


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

Posted by: singleticket 09:40 pm EST 11/23/14
In reply to: re: The song is only creepy if you choose to see it that way - LegitOnce 09:27 pm EST 11/23/14

There is plenty of reason for that perhaps in that Gigi is being groomed as a courtesan in front of Gaston who is in the habit of acquiring courtesans. Gaston suddenly realizes in all innocence that he desires Gigi just as Mamita and Alica realize in all innocence that Gigi could be acquired by Gaston. You're saying those realizations are completely innocent. I'm saying, perhaps or perhaps not. And, you're being a bitch about now.


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