| re: What’s wrong with “I feel pretty”? | |
| Last Edit: Chazwaza 04:56 pm EST 02/22/20 | |
| Posted by: Chazwaza 04:45 pm EST 02/22/20 | |
| In reply to: re: What’s wrong with “I feel pretty”? - Michael_Portantiere 04:02 pm EST 02/22/20 | |
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| Also beyond the need for light and joy... there's a heavy and effective dramatic irony to going from a violent rumble ending in two dead bodies and then going to Maria, blissfully unaware and celebrating how she feels to be in love with one of the people she doesn't know is responsible for the violence that she doesn't think just happened. And with regards to the lyrical alliteration... again... Steve... MARIA IS NOT RHYMING OR USING ALLITERATION, *YOU* ARE in how you chose to write her musical/lyrical expression! She is just speaking or thinking and the audience is hearing it. But when it's a song we do not think the characters are suddenly speaking in rhyme, and that goes for the alliteration IN the rhyming lyrics as well. We understand it's a musical. In musicals characters who aren't singers start singing their dialogue or thoughts, and when singing they almost always rhyme despite that in the musical when they are not singing they almost always do not rhyme. BUT if we do what to pretend that's somehow relevant... this is not a very sophisticated rhyme or alliteration, and I DO think a young smart girl who is learning a new language and its vocab and applying it would, in a moment of heightened joy, be searching for words she has learned or read like stunning and charming and fuzzy, etc, and might delight in this kind of alliteration with these words. And in fact the way the song plays it almost feels like someone who is searching for words to try to describe how she's feeling, rather than confidently putting them out there fully pre-thought and intentional. And I agree about how she's playing it with the humorous pretension, etc. So no matter how he cuts it I think he has a weird misunderstanding of how this song plays in the show and to an audience, and perhaps a unknowing lack of respect for this character and too much respect for his own writing here even in the sense that he respects the cleverness of him to the point of objecting to it and in turn disrespects the character's ability in order to acknowledge his own. |
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