| re: The Life...utterly shameful. | |
| Posted by: ShowGoer 10:50 am EDT 03/20/22 | |
| In reply to: re: The Life...utterly shameful. - KingSpeed 03:38 am EDT 03/20/22 | |
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| Re; your post below, I feel like you can stay true to your goals, still fail, and come to realize in retrospect that you've made mistakes that you should be at least a LITTLE ashamed of. There's nothing wrong with that, because it's how people learn. Anyone who feels no embarrassment or shame at a universally derided public failure is someone who most likely thinks they can't do any wrong at all, therefore can't take criticism, and thus isn't destined to get anything from the experience (other than feeling like "I did what I set out to do so therefore it's obviously unimpeachable".) But that's just my take. As far as Cats, I can't speak to any one person's experience, but there's a reason it's still a punching bag 2 years later and it's not just because of the jokes about "release the butthole cut!" or because people are over James Corden. There are a lot of people who love the stage musical Cats, whether as a true piece of art or as a guilty pleasure (count me in BOTH camps, the former when I was a little kid and the latter as a grown-up) who think that the movie was a risible dud; that while still having a few things of value (some of the choreography, the way a few of the shots were framed, Ian McKellen's commitment to the bit), there was a way to make a better movie of Cats. (Whether as an animated film, as joked about in "Six Degrees of Separation", or as a differently-conceived, more well-cast, and much better-directed live-action movie.) Anyway, I guess I reacted to your post the way I did because I don't think there's necessarily anything wrong with a little embarrassment. Just as nervous breakdowns can either destroy you or can help you get you get your life together, breakups can either make you park your head under your covers or get you one step closer to finding the person you're meant to be with, and the death of a loved one can either incapacitate you or make you stronger, a poorly received show can either make you more convinced you can do no wrong, or can help you improve the next time. In that respect, I feel like, at its best, shame can be humbling, healthy, and lead to better. |
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