| Who is this version of the movie for? | |
| Last Edit: Singapore/Fling 01:00 am EST 02/13/21 | |
| Posted by: Singapore/Fling 12:50 am EST 02/13/21 | |
| In reply to: re: Paramount remaking THE KING & I (the musical) - Chromolume 09:56 pm EST 02/12/21 | |
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| This sounds insane to me. The way they are talking about bringing in the diversity makes me skeptical that they are approaching it with anywhere near the sensitivity required to do it well, or even responsibly. I wish them luck, but the depiction of the King is a giant landmine, in terms of how to make something that will sell in both the West and Asia. And the timing couldn't be worse, at least to make the announcement. It shows an appalling cluelessness about that part of the world, which they are claiming they are going to be more mindful of. Maybe they're imagining they can do romantic musical comedy, "A Star Is Born Crazy Rich Asians", but I just don't see how you get that out of "The King and I" unless you completely scrub the politics out of it, at which point it's a story about a randy dad who's hot for teacher. There's absolutely no way that East Asia wants to hear what America thinks about its cultural values, and it's hard to see Western BIPOC and their allies enjoying a show in which a White lady teaches an Asia man that slavery is bad by showing him "Uncle Tom's Cabin". At that point, who is this movie for? Red State family value Christian conservatives? They're gonna hate it because it isn't about White people. You're literally making a movie for no one. I don''t know, let's see who they get to write it. It's probably gonna be Tony Kushner, but maybe they'll surprise us and get Anchuli Felicia King (who would then be rewritten by Tony Kushner). A move like that might actually work, because she straddles both cultures. But this is pretty much toast if the writer is American, regardless of their cultural identity. Stay tuned. |
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