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| re: i think those movies are what is being spoofed | |
| Posted by: Michael_Portantiere 07:16 pm EDT 04/18/20 | |
| In reply to: re: i think those movies are what is being spoofed - BroadwayTonyJ 11:15 am EDT 04/18/20 | |
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| Agreed 100 percent. So much of the content of THE BELLS OF ST. MARY'S is so breathtakingly ridiculous that it's completely ripe for satire, especially in Busch's masterful way. Although I suspect that if you had re-watched the movie recently even without ever having seen THE DIVINE SISTER, you still would have had a very bad reaction to it after all these years. Because it's way beyond dated, it seems now that it was always reprehensibly false, manipulative, and insulting to one's intelligence. I guess my defense for liking the movie when I first came to know it through showings on TV is that I was SO young at the time, but it's hard for me to understand how any adults could ever have stomached in, even in the 1940s. But incredibly, according to Wikipedia, "The film was enormously popular, earning receipts of $8 million in North America during its initial run, making it the highest-grossing movie of 1945 in the USA." |
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| re: i think those movies are what is being spoofed | |
| Posted by: BroadwayTonyJ 10:01 am EDT 04/19/20 | |
| In reply to: re: i think those movies are what is being spoofed - Michael_Portantiere 07:16 pm EDT 04/18/20 | |
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| I was raised in a very devout, strict, blue collar, working class Roman Catholic family and attended Catholic grade school (run by nuns and priests) in the 50's and 60's. I was introduced to films like Going My Way, The Bells of St. Mary's, The Bishop's Wife, Come to the Stable, Keys of the Kingdom, The Song of Bernadette, The Sound of Music, and countless others as a little boy and young teen. When I got older, on some level I must have realized how hokey they were. However, I continued to enjoy them because they reminded me fondly of my childhood. Of course, it was wasn't until decades later that stories about abuse and/or inappropriate sexual activity in Catholic institutions surfaced, were reported in the press, and became the subject matter for theatre pieces like Child's Play, Agnes of God, Mass Appeal, Doubt, and others. It's not surprising that Charles Busch targeted some beloved 40's films for pointed satire in The Divine Sister. Making people laugh may be the best antidote for combatting the hypocrisy that they represent. |
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