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| MAJOR SPOILER: Woke Students censor H.S. 'Hunchback' | |
| Posted by: lordofspeech 05:49 pm EST 02/06/18 | |
| In reply to: Woke Students Shut Down A High School Production Of 'Hunchback' - mattyp4 04:37 pm EST 02/06/18 | |
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| Wait. So many things. 1) if “woke” is bad-grammar-speak for “awakened,” which I think it is, it seems un-woke to be part of a politically correct regimen which censors productions. 2) HERE’S THE SPOILER: Need Esmeralda be dark? Isn’t that dependent on how much she stays out in the sun? A major tragic moment in the novel is when Sister Gudule, the rabidly anti-gypsy nun who captures Esmeralda and insures her execution, discovers, all too late, that Esmeralda is not at all a gypsy, but her own child, who was stolen by the gypsies as an infant. Did the Disney version leave that out? If so, it loses a major point about the blindness of prejudice and how it destroys the happiness of the prejudiced themselves. Even so, must a gypsy be brown-skinned? 3) I shake my head in dismay, keeping it down, though, fearing that, if identified, I may be called out by these self-righteous young throngs of the politically correct. Oi. |
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| re: MAJOR SPOILER: Woke Students censor H.S. 'Hunchback' | |
| Posted by: MTPROF77 10:49 am EST 02/07/18 | |
| In reply to: MAJOR SPOILER: Woke Students censor H.S. 'Hunchback' - lordofspeech 05:49 pm EST 02/06/18 | |
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| Yes! Thank you! | |
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| re: MAJOR SPOILER: Woke Students censor H.S. 'Hunchback' | |
| Posted by: BruceinIthaca 07:22 pm EST 02/06/18 | |
| In reply to: MAJOR SPOILER: Woke Students censor H.S. 'Hunchback' - lordofspeech 05:49 pm EST 02/06/18 | |
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| I think the Disney version leaves the revelation out--I read the novel at least ten (maybe more) years ago and had forgotten it until someone on another site pointed it out. Try LIVING in Ithaca! (Wonderful in many ways, but I am viewed by many as always on the "wrong" side, because I actually can entertain multiple perspectives--that's the danger of studying performance and rhetoric--you actually can see things in more than one way!). Dr. Bacon would purse his lips, Dr. Breen would scowl, Dr. Heston would blow smoke in their faces, Dr. Roloff would shake his sadly but microscopically, and Carol Simpson Stern would laugh and then demolish their argument inside of two minutes. Those were the days! |
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| re: MAJOR SPOILER: Woke Students censor H.S. 'Hunchback' | |
| Posted by: BruceinIthaca 07:31 pm EST 02/06/18 | |
| In reply to: re: MAJOR SPOILER: Woke Students censor H.S. 'Hunchback' - BruceinIthaca 07:22 pm EST 02/06/18 | |
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| I seem to have beheaded one of my dear mentors--Dr. Roloff would have shaken his head sadly but microscopically! Sorry, Lee, wherever you are in the universe! |
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