| re: SEVEN BRIDES FOR SEVEN BROTHERS - On Stage Vs. Film | |
| Posted by: Chazwaza 05:18 pm EST 03/09/21 | |
| In reply to: SEVEN BRIDES FOR SEVEN BROTHERS - On Stage Vs. Film - JereNYC 11:45 am EST 03/09/21 | |
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| in no way defending the kidnapping or the way it's played in the film (I haven't seen it on stage)... if the women don't go against there will, doesn't that mess up the rest of the plot. After the kidnapping Jane Powell has to get mad at Adam for his part and that makes him go away for the winer, and that's when Powell and the woman start to warm to the brothers and their bonds develop (in theory), plus the baby thing that helps bring Adam around to how a girl should be treated. If you take away that conflict then it's just them running away, and needing someone to marry them officially. And for as contradictory as it is, before the upsetting kidnapping scene, i do remember the movie painting that the women like and choose the brothers over the men they're promised to, right? At the dance and after? I think the film thinks it's setting you up to believe the women want to go with the brothers but the brothers go about it the wrong way (partly due to them being mountain men with no manners or good raising). I think you could have an interesting new story for the women in town being promised to men they don't like, running off with the brothers, and the town men and townsfolk want to storm the brother's house to get them back ... but the avalanche keep the pathway cutoff, and in the winter months the couples realize they don't know each other and it was just the first attraction/response to being promised to men they didnt choose. Now the men (as guided by Powell) have to re-woo and court the women, and many realize they're with the wrong brother and all switch around... just in time for winter to be done and the townsfolk come up to hang the brothers and take back the women... and then the townsmen have a shot to make a case for themselves? And the women get to choose properly between the brothers and men? I dunno... But it requires a LOT of changes and total rewriting of the last 1/3 of the musical at least. Which is great except's not at all worth re-making or staging on stage again... it's so of its time, to me it's just a fascinating time capsule of that era of movie musicals. |
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