| re: you can "sort of see it with the actors"? | |
| Last Edit: Chazwaza 03:03 am EST 02/02/18 | |
| Posted by: Chazwaza 02:59 am EST 02/02/18 | |
| In reply to: re: you can "sort of see it with the actors"? - BigM 04:28 pm EST 02/01/18 | |
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| The fact that you think what I'm suggesting is "affirmative action" with hiring the writer is so spot-on what's wrong with how you see this, and what you don't and seem to refuse to understand about it. It makes me think you both don't know what affirmative action is and don't know what my point was about hiring a person with a hispanic background to write the screenplay. I guess we'll just have to leave it there because we've gone back and forth several times and I think i've made my point clear several times (Wayman made my point too), and you just don't understand, or you just see hiring people with the cultural and racial background of the characters in the material as "affirmative action" - without any consideration or respect for what they might bring to a project that is largely telling a story specific to their background or people, or at least using many main characters (certainly the most interesting ones) who have that background and experience. And yes, WSS has half white characters (though again I think they are generally not as important, even in the main love story Tony's experience and background seem secondary to Maria's), but WSS has been written TWICE by white men, by Arthur Laurents in the musical's book and Lehman for the adapted screenplay of the film. They were very capable of doing it and did it very well and successfully and famously. Why not give the remake the chance to incorporate what a Hispanic writer might bring to it. I don't they hired Kushner to just "clean up" or move some words around to fit what Speilberg wants to shoot... so if you're willing to make changes to the original, why not give someone else a try? There's never been a non-white man involved creatively in this show in any *major* production at all to my knowledge let alone to one that will last and impact (the original and the movie)... why are you so fervently defending and insisting that there's no need to NOT have all white men doing it again? The show is half white but it's ALSO HALF HISPANIC. And I dare say, outside the love story, the bigger thrust of the story being told is that of the immigrant Puerto Rican experience in NYC. If all that isn't enough to convince you that a white writer you don't even like, who has never written a musical film or the book to a non-sung-through musical isn't necessarily the most advantageous choice for a remake to a movie most agree is a brilliant classic, then I don't get it. Whatever take Speilberg has for re-making this clearly includes casting actual hispanic actors to play hispanic roles... which you apparently don't think is necessary, but it happening anyway... so why not, in this take on it, try to utilize the collaboration of a writer putting the words into those characters mouths who has a hispanic background in this country? I don't think everything with race has to be written by a writer of that race, or anything like that, but when you're doing this particular kind of re-make, why not!? And as for what you may be trying to reference about what I said regarding just hiring them to have the authenticity a hispanic writer brings in terms of "street cred" for both hollywood and the audience, my point was that if for *no other reason*(there are many other reasons), in this particular climate of giving opportunity and voice to women and minorities, ESPECIALLY to tell their own stories, which much of WSS very much is, it would seem advantageous to have a screenwriter on board who answers that issue, even if it's the only reason they're hiring them. There aren't all that many known hispanic screenwriters working in mainstream Hollywood... I'm sure it would be nice for many people to see that happen especially on a project like this. But I'm just repeating my many sound points again. I respect your opinion but I don't agree and I think you're being limited and somewhat ignorant in your thinking here or at least how you equate what i'm saying. |
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