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. |
