| re: "The Gilded Age" - most Tony-winners on one series? |
| Posted by: singleticket 04:28 pm EST 01/29/22 |
| In reply to: re: "The Gilded Age" - most Tony-winners on one series? - Singapore/Fling 04:11 pm EST 01/29/22 |
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I don't see anything about the cafe scene that should be confusing, as that seems period-appropriate.
Audra McDonald's character tells her daughter that the cafe isn't respectable, the daughter replies that she likes it. To my eye, the cafe looked rather sumptuous and aside from some men speaking in loud voices I couldn't tell what was not respectable about it. Had the show's aesthetic fetishism followed the black characters into their environments it would have been fascinating. To have devoted the same care on the style distinctions between classes in the black world as the show lavishes on the white world would have been not only an artistic coup it would have made the historical fantasy much more believable.
The fantasia aspect is more in the realm of how blithely Baranski's character hires Benton's without taking her race into consideration...
It's covered by placing the Baranski character in the world of charity work that endowed schools for African Americans in Pennsylvania. But yes, pretty unconvincing weighed against the character's distaste for the changing world and her place within it.
...and certainly in the way that the secret Gummer sister is totally unaware that life might be different for a Black woman than a white woman.
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