"No one has said to Curly, 'Maybe if people were nicer to Jud, he'd be different.' Curly hasn't read articles on psychology, although he knows how to be manipulative."
Agreed. But I've always thought it's interesting that, AFTER the song, there is a moment when Curly seems to be trying to reason with Jud and trying to talk him into changing his lifestyle and joining the community, rather than being a misanthrope. These are the lines as they appear in the movie script, which I found online, but I think they're exactly the same as the show version:
"How did you get to be the way you are anyhow? Sittin' in here in this filthy hole. Why don't you do something healthy once in a while, 'stead of stayin' shut up here, a-crawlin' and festerin'?" |
