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| re: I was re-watching "The Music Man" last night on TCM - question about the con | |
| Last Edit: mikem 01:38 pm EDT 03/18/22 | |
| Posted by: mikem 01:38 pm EDT 03/18/22 | |
| In reply to: re: I was re-watching "The Music Man" last night on TCM - question about the con - JereNYC 12:50 pm EDT 03/18/22 | |
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| (spoilers, I guess) I really love the final moments of The Music Man. The parents' pride is one of those plot twists that feels completely unexpected in the moment but also feels really organic. It doesn't feel like some random thing that came in to save the day. I think it's a great heart-warming conclusion to the show. All the things you mention could still happen after the show is over. Parental pride will tide them over long enough for some actual instruction to happen. The kids don't have to be objectively good at their instruments, just good enough. I don't know how much legal checking would happen in that place and time to prevent Harold and Marian from being married and settling down. Once he's no longer a traveling salesman, the other salesmen won't care what he does. And his con is relatively small amounts of dollars for each individual parent he conned before River City. I don't know if anyone is going to hunt him down for a con of that size that happened a while earlier -- he's been in River City for several months by the end of the show. It's not like he conned people out of their house. |
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| re: I was re-watching "The Music Man" last night on TCM - question about the con | |
| Posted by: BroadwayTonyJ 02:15 pm EDT 03/18/22 | |
| In reply to: re: I was re-watching "The Music Man" last night on TCM - question about the con - mikem 01:38 pm EDT 03/18/22 | |
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| Through a crazy set of circumstances, my dad, who was born in 1920, did not know his own legal name. Nevertheless, he got a social security number, enlisted in the army in 1941, married my mom in 1947, filed taxes every year -- all under an incorrect name. When my mom wanted to travel abroad around 1975, my dad discovered the truth when he tried to get a passport. I don't think Harold and Marian would have had a problem getting married in River City. | |
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| re: I was re-watching "The Music Man" last night on TCM - question about the con | |
| Last Edit: PlayWiz 02:20 pm EDT 03/18/22 | |
| Posted by: PlayWiz 02:19 pm EDT 03/18/22 | |
| In reply to: re: I was re-watching "The Music Man" last night on TCM - question about the con - BroadwayTonyJ 02:15 pm EDT 03/18/22 | |
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| They could also move to a bigger city like Des Moines at some point. Marian sings in that same section of both "My White Knight" in the show and in "Being In Love" in the film that she wants to live in a cottage somewhere in the State of Iowa. | |
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| re: I was re-watching "The Music Man" last night on TCM - question about the con | |
| Posted by: Chromolume 08:01 pm EDT 03/18/22 | |
| In reply to: re: I was re-watching "The Music Man" last night on TCM - question about the con - PlayWiz 02:19 pm EDT 03/18/22 | |
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| Are cottages forbidden in River City? :-) | |
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