| Not exactly cold-blooded murder, to me | |
| Last Edit: Ann 08:58 am EDT 06/20/19 | |
| Posted by: Ann 08:57 am EDT 06/20/19 | |
| In reply to: My opinion—- Spoilers! Beware - dramedy 12:50 am EDT 06/20/19 | |
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| I saw it (at St. Ann's) as Jud, feeling rejected from society and knowing he will never be accepted, pleading (wordlessly) with Curly to shoot him. It kind of felt like Fish tried to make the most anti-Rodgers and Hammerstein Oklahoma! he could without changing a word - then he had to change the knife reference. I don't know why R&H.org (maybe through the change in ownership?)/ Ted Chapin approved that change. But it seemed Fish really wanted a gun in there. The gun muddies the "trial" but I guess that's what he wanted. I admired a lot of what he did, I thought the music sounded beautiful, and the setting (lights up, in Brooklyn with the audience on bleachers I think, lack of traditional sets, etc.) was fine in a new way to look at it. I didn't like the black-outs. And the ending did not work for me, with the knife/gun change and Laurey still there with her blood-spattered wedding dress to the end. I would have admired it more as a creative experiment if he had succeeded in doing it without changing a word, 100%. It's obvious that it makes people think (maybe with a smote of the brow), and that's not a bad thing. I'm surprised at its box office success, but I think that's a good thing (the box office, not my surprise). |
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