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| re: Was the Trumpism intended? | |
| Posted by: BestFriend 08:31 am EDT 04/05/18 | |
| In reply to: re: Was the Trumpism intended? - ukpaul 07:33 am EDT 04/05/18 | |
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| I guess the Olivier voters must've missed the memo. As for the Trumpism, I was referring both to the use of the word "Sad" (see: Twitter) and responding to a question about why things played out as they did. A sense of clubby superiority that feels acerbicly witty in the Empire's capitol can read as smug in the revolutionary provinces. As to product, I thought Kinky Boots was based on a true UK story. From over here, the news looks like folks in London might sometimes miss a sense of what's going on in location in Northampton... |
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| re: Was the Trumpism intended? | |
| Posted by: ukpaul 02:11 pm EDT 04/05/18 | |
| In reply to: re: Was the Trumpism intended? - BestFriend 08:31 am EDT 04/05/18 | |
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| Matilda is clubby superiority? Sorry, but no. Not in any sane universe. As for Empire, are you referring to something seventy plus years ago and that nobody clings onto anymore? Well, apart from a few rabid right wingers anyway. I know Northampton well, my sister lives near there and also am not a Londoner at all. The show doesn’t even read as England, never mind Northampton. Matilda doesn’t discount in the West End whilst Kinky Boots is always at TKTS with heavy reductions. As such it looks as though we voted a different way (although Russian interference is one thing that seemingly still unites us). |
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| re: Was the Trumpism intended? | |
| Posted by: BestFriend 08:49 am EDT 04/05/18 | |
| In reply to: re: Was the Trumpism intended? - BestFriend 08:31 am EDT 04/05/18 | |
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| PS I know it might seem disorienting for me to equate dumping on Kinky Boots with Trumpism - some folks parse those categories separately. But the common element to which I am drawing attention is an exaggerated sense of "us versus them, we're better than they are" tribal superiority. That's quintessentially Trumpian. It can also make self-enamorment with one's own self-proclaimed acerbic wit, asserted and broadcast over and over, a real turn off. I myself find it quite doltish, and not the kind of thing truly witty people need to do. To me made Matilda, not Kinky Boots, a complete and utter bore. I just think that's what happened. Maybe someone else has a better analysis (oh wait - let me guess: the hoi polloi theatre-going public and award voters are just too stupid). |
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