| I should have read further before posting my nm comment. Indeed, if we look at GGTL, casting a Native American as Jud (Jeeter) would not necessarily be wrong, but doing so in order to make a point that the other characters consider him therefore of lesser value than white people would be going against what GGTL tells us about these people. Since Hammerstein omitted these things from his adaptation, it's reasonable to question whether we should care, but I surely don't think that Hammerstein's intentions would be served by doing this. There are those who would say that those intentions don't especially matter, and that's another argument (one we've had here many times). |
