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| Which, if you think about it, is what HAMILTON did. | |
| Last Edit: GrumpyMorningBoy 05:15 pm EDT 10/30/17 | |
| Posted by: GrumpyMorningBoy 05:11 pm EDT 10/30/17 | |
| In reply to: re: It's not a question of happy endings... - Chromolume 01:31 pm EDT 10/30/17 | |
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| "I think that most people would feel we're not ready for that." You're right. Most people probably do feel that. And it's bullshit. Because we ARE ready for that. And we will FLOCK to it if it's done well. If you think about it, this is almost exactly what HAMILTON did. It forced us to imagine an alternate reality where a group of black and brown people had the wealth and social power to found a nation, rather than be enslaved by it. We had never seen a musical with a cast of black and brown people whose characters displayed that level of agency, those massive amounts of financial resources, that level of nation-influencing intelligence and wit. And audiences found it thrilling. Imagine if someone showed other minorities who were similarly not HELD BACK by the thing which made them a minority? We WANT these kinds of stories. There are many reasons why those stories are massive hits on America's screens. Let's put them on stage. With music, even. - GMB |
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| re: Which, if you think about it, is what HAMILTON did. | |
| Posted by: ryhog 06:43 pm EDT 10/30/17 | |
| In reply to: Which, if you think about it, is what HAMILTON did. - GrumpyMorningBoy 05:11 pm EDT 10/30/17 | |
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| an interesting point (as has been this thread so thanks) though I think the Hamilton example is not a great one because it is actually very much about being a minority in a majority world, and more particularly about finding a unique way of embracing and "owning" that world without deferring to it. I think it is still very hard to put a non-majority character in a literary work in America without that status having any significance. (And of course all of this is a tangent of the many threads about color-blindness, which is part of what makes this interesting.) | |
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