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The 'Musicals Suck' Thread
rancidhooligan:
--- Quote from: zerodrone on 08 Mar 2008, 15:39 ---For me, pop-culture analysis is second nature. It just naturally occurs to me. It's not something I consciously put effort into.
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For as much as you seem to dislike me, we're not so dissimilar, you and I.
David_Dovey:
You're right, you both showed up on the forum out of the blue with pretensions to iconoclasm and a very high regard for your own opinion.
Hopefully the similarity bears out and you mellow out a bit as you accrue time here.
Jackie, there's no doubt that there's a lot going on underneath the surface of Star Wars (particularly the first film), e.g; The Joseph Campbell connection and the homages to Kurosawa and 50's matinée serials among other things and some of the allegories you're discussing are certainly there (I'd be willing to dispute the drug/Tim Leary references), but I would by no means call Star Wars a "great" social commentary.
As tommy said, these elements are pretty prevalent in almost any film if you're willing to view the film through a certain lens, and Star Wars definitely doesn't do it any better than any other film. Of course, there are a lot of things Star Wars does do a lot better than other films, and some of them are pretty ponderous, so it's not like Star Wars doesn't have it's fair share of intellectual chops.
Jackie Blue:
--- Quote from: rancidhooligan on 08 Mar 2008, 20:18 ---For as much as you seem to dislike me, we're not so dissimilar, you and I.
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Yeah, but I'm funnier.
The Viz:
Guys, guys -- I think we can all agree that all musicals are exactly the same. It's okay to hate them all as a group because there are no different styles or genres when it comes to musical theatre. Assassins is exactly the same as Hello Dolly. Rent is actually Oklahoma, note-for-note. Stories told through music is just an inferior form of art, seriously. They're all the same, just like all minorities.
Hat:
We might as well just all get naked and watch television if we were going to waste our time on musicals
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