LET'S TALK ABOUT SEYMOUR
I WAS WRONG ABOUT SEYMOUR
It's amazing how much listening to the stage version (specifically the 2003 Broadway revival recommended by Mike Bithell, natch) changed how I viewed the movie. I still love it, but decisions I previously saw as sacred or intentional are now revealed to be...something else.
Let's recap some changes in the stage version:
- The dent...
The old cliche of "she's still my little girl" is represented, but for some reason, it comes off as less infantilizing and more...emotionally resonant, here?
We get to see Steve Martin's point of view actually change in real time, to acknowledge the woman his daughter has become.
It's nice.
I will also never stop laughing at this scene:
Yes, 9 to 5 is a comedy. Yes, Dolly Parton is awesome, as ever. Yes, the boss does get his comeuppance at the end by getting sent to Brazil and *checks notes* kidnapped by an Amazon tribe...but lord is the reality presented grim.
Think about a world where the boss still getting the credit for work performed by the women around him is a good outcome, because he's now see...
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2018-10-14 01:54:32 +0000 UTC View PostLet's talk about Seymour.
We've seen the "nice guy" in movies and TV shows - a lot. You get the sense that there's a lot of so-called nice guys behind the scenes writing these characters. And usually, once you dig past the self-awarely quirky surface and conga line of explicitly presented personality flaws, the nice guy isn't very nice at all. This can usually be seen in how he relates to his st...
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