| The Sound of Music and its problematic depiction of martinet military types and mamas with a gleaming gloat. | |
| Posted by: portenopete 04:01 pm EST 02/13/21 | |
| In reply to: 'The King and I' and its Thais to the past - WaymanWong 01:18 am EST 02/13/21 | |
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| I love Rodgers & Hammerstein's glorious score, but the show is truly Viennese False. If they ever remake this tale of Austrians, how about casting some folks of Middle European ancestry? In the Oscar-winning 1965 movie Maria is played by an English woman who was not, in fact, a nun (Julie Andrews); the Captain by Christopher Plummer (a Canadian who spoke with an affected English accent) and the Baroness by an actress with no noble lineage of any kind from Cedarville, Ohio (Eleanor Parker). (I won't get into the Bill Baird's Marionettes' claim of being descended from actual alpine goatherds.) Something tells me that if the old government in Austria circa 1939 was still in power, they'd ban The Sound of Music pretty swiftly. |
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