singin in the rain, lolversion
11 Sep 2009 10:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cimoreneRemember when I said that the local theater's doing Singin' in the Rain in Finnish with hilariously incongruous casting? Yeah. Here's the promo picture side-by-side with the artwork it's imitating (I presume the fat guy is probably Cosmo, in which case they've staged it backwards; but if it's Don, that's so fascinating and enchanting - a fat romantic lead, that NEVER happens - that it's clearly a purposeful political statement, and I take back everything I've said).
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I wanted to note, though, that in response to my initial rant, my beloved![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
shiroi_chi said that you can't really see what the actors on the stage actually look like anyway, and they don't have to be classically pretty to be awesome and that's kind of what she loves about theater. And she has a point there, I mean, surely in casting SITR to be viewed in spotlights on a stage from a distance in the dark, the dancing skills are what counts. If they've cast for dancing skills, well, they probably still don't have Gene Kelly or Donald O'Connor, but it could be awesome.
And also I agree with her, that is awesome, and Enya knows Hollywood has always put way too much emphasis on looks, right? But on the other hand, SITR is a film about Hollywood, and actually problematizes the question of looks - you know, not thoroughly, but a bit - in the form of Lina. Don's looks, particularly, are important to the plot.
And on a note of I'm-running-out-of-hands, if theater lets people who don't meet ridiculous beauty standards compete specifically because they can't be seen then in other words... it's not actually fighting those standards at all, it's just saying 'here, you can PRETEND that you DO conform to these stupid fascist beauty standards'. From a point of view of challenging ridiculous beauty standards, you kinda need to be able to tell what people look like.
And finally, leaving all that behind, Chi said she might go see it just to piss me off. And I realized that since this production will be in Finnish, and I know Singin' in the Rain pretty much by heart, seeing it would actually probably be a pretty cool way to improve my Finnish. And even if it didn't make much difference to my skillz, it would be fascinating and my prior knowledge (coupled with incredibly elementary Finnish skillz, LOL) should enable me to follow the events onstage. So if she meant that I might tag along. If that won't take away too much from your satisfaction at pissing me off,shiroi_chi.
Click for bigger versions.
I wanted to note, though, that in response to my initial rant, my beloved
shiroi_chi said that you can't really see what the actors on the stage actually look like anyway, and they don't have to be classically pretty to be awesome and that's kind of what she loves about theater. And she has a point there, I mean, surely in casting SITR to be viewed in spotlights on a stage from a distance in the dark, the dancing skills are what counts. If they've cast for dancing skills, well, they probably still don't have Gene Kelly or Donald O'Connor, but it could be awesome. And also I agree with her, that is awesome, and Enya knows Hollywood has always put way too much emphasis on looks, right? But on the other hand, SITR is a film about Hollywood, and actually problematizes the question of looks - you know, not thoroughly, but a bit - in the form of Lina. Don's looks, particularly, are important to the plot.
And on a note of I'm-running-out-of-hands, if theater lets people who don't meet ridiculous beauty standards compete specifically because they can't be seen then in other words... it's not actually fighting those standards at all, it's just saying 'here, you can PRETEND that you DO conform to these stupid fascist beauty standards'. From a point of view of challenging ridiculous beauty standards, you kinda need to be able to tell what people look like.
And finally, leaving all that behind, Chi said she might go see it just to piss me off. And I realized that since this production will be in Finnish, and I know Singin' in the Rain pretty much by heart, seeing it would actually probably be a pretty cool way to improve my Finnish. And even if it didn't make much difference to my skillz, it would be fascinating and my prior knowledge (coupled with incredibly elementary Finnish skillz, LOL) should enable me to follow the events onstage. So if she meant that I might tag along. If that won't take away too much from your satisfaction at pissing me off,
shiroi_chi.
