What I'm hearing is a rant against manipulating the masses into some idealistic feeling that If It's True Love, It'll Work Out. I love musicals myself. Not all of them - it gets spotty in the 50's, for instance - but I love to sing mediocrely to myself. Gimme some Sweeney Todd or Little Shop of Horrors or Jesus Christ Superstar (except for I Don't Know How to Love Him) anyday. Musicals have no sort of market-cornering action on the above. Almost *all* romantic tales have a happy ending. We tend to not be satisfied if they don't, like someone skipped the dessert.
FWIW, I couldn't take Moulin Rouge for more than 15 minutes.
And my pet rant is over movies that purposefully bring you down just so they can take credit for bringing you back up at the end. Lost puppies? The death of an innocent? Life-altering illness? Terrible tragedy X? Grrrrrrr. Severely manipulative.
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Date: 2008-12-09 06:10 pm (UTC)I love musicals myself. Not all of them - it gets spotty in the 50's, for instance - but I love to sing mediocrely to myself. Gimme some Sweeney Todd or Little Shop of Horrors or Jesus Christ Superstar (except for I Don't Know How to Love Him) anyday.
Musicals have no sort of market-cornering action on the above. Almost *all* romantic tales have a happy ending. We tend to not be satisfied if they don't, like someone skipped the dessert.
FWIW, I couldn't take Moulin Rouge for more than 15 minutes.
And my pet rant is over movies that purposefully bring you down just so they can take credit for bringing you back up at the end. Lost puppies? The death of an innocent? Life-altering illness? Terrible tragedy X? Grrrrrrr. Severely manipulative.