| re: Randy Rainbow’s old, racist, and transphobic tweets resurface | |
| Posted by: Michael_Portantiere 04:35 pm EDT 08/19/20 | |
| In reply to: re: Randy Rainbow’s old, racist, and transphobic tweets resurface - JereNYC 03:35 pm EDT 08/19/20 | |
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| "Also, I don't think Emile was married to the mother of his children, except in the film version, where, I suppose, out-of-wedlock children were just a taboo too far." Actually, I think even in the movie version of the musical, in the scene where Captain Brackett and Harbison are telling Cable about Emile, Brackett still says only that Emile lived with a Polynesian woman for years, and also that he had two children by her. But he doesn't say they were married, and I don't believe we're supposed to think they were. So again, it was my mistake in referring to her as "Emile's deceased wife." "I've always wished that more of SOUTH PACIFIC was about Nellie grappling with the racism that she was taught at home in Little Rock." I understand why you feel that way, but I really think there's enough of that content in the musical as written to make the point very well. First there's the final scene of Act I, in which Nellie becomes so upset to learn of Emile's two half-Polynesian children that (as played in the movie) she becomes nearly hysterical with weeping and runs away. And then there's the very powerful scene with Cable and Emile, just before "You've Got to Be Taught." And of course, in that song, Cable very pointedly and succinctly states the tragic truth about racism and bigotry. To have put any more explicit discussion of racism in the show might have seemed too didactic or slege-hammerish, and perhaps might even been less effective for that reason. |
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