| re: SEVEN BRIDES FOR SEVEN BROTHERS - On Stage Vs. Film |
| Posted by: keikekaze 05:36 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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my idea would be to put in some character development for the brothers and the women and to check in with the women prior to the kidnapping scene. where we'd see how bored they are with their more conventional suitors and how they're pining for the brothers. Then, when it becomes clear to them that the brothers have come to get them, give them the agency to decide to go with the brothers, while also putting on a public show for the town of being taken against their wills to save their reputations. The conflict later then arises from the men not actually bringing a preacher along to marry them and how stupid that is and how pissed off the women are to have gone through all this only to not be able to marry.
Isn't this a pretty precise description of what the 1954 movie already does? Though a movie of less than two hours doesn't really provide a lot of time for character development among 12 people, the spectacular barn-dance number has already told us--before the abduction--that the brides actually prefer the backwoods brothers to their "townie" suitors. That's what the number is there for, and that's how you do the first part of what you suggest in musical shorthand. |
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