tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post6009321674398688722..comments2024-03-29T00:04:32.434-05:00Comments on Althouse: "But there's a fundamental problem with the latest Carrie movie and Carrie The Musical..."Ann Althousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01630636239933008807noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-51416519471063110022015-03-28T17:18:08.020-05:002015-03-28T17:18:08.020-05:00There was--truly--a musical version of Anne Frank&...There was--truly--a musical version of Anne Frank's Diary produced. It was not a hit and folded out of town.......Carrie's big menstruation scene is the subject of grand opera. Maybe Verdi could deliver the moment musically, but it is beyond the ken of musical comedy. "Younger than springtime and fresh into puberty/ Are you/ Fresher than those first red drops of menstrual dew/Are you." It just doesn't work as musical comedy. Williamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07837540030934495651noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-30223608434658692222015-03-28T14:46:17.101-05:002015-03-28T14:46:17.101-05:00Is Carrie covered with the blood of her aborted ba...Is Carrie covered with the blood of her aborted baby? I can understand why Femenists would be horrified by the prospect. A progressive moral reincarnation of the "Scarlet Letter" would shame everyone in the libertine cult.n.nhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04252447117532342957noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-47766622019177955062015-03-28T12:05:46.960-05:002015-03-28T12:05:46.960-05:00But I thought Carrie was sent to Lufthansa Flight ...But I thought Carrie was sent to Lufthansa Flight School where she got over all those hurts.traditionalguyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05706120413005530014noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-10346963867857560832015-03-28T11:02:43.835-05:002015-03-28T11:02:43.835-05:00All movies right now are required to be escapist f...All movies right now are required to be escapist fantasies. You're telling me you want to make a movie about a high schooler with telekinetic powers and she's not even happy? Next you'll want to leave out the spandex and cleavage.<br /><br />Zachhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02284350648793830503noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-68826848020776459922015-03-28T10:58:08.579-05:002015-03-28T10:58:08.579-05:00There's a fundamental problem with the interpr...There's a fundamental problem with the interpretation: <br /><br />"she never enjoys anything remotely approaching a feminist sense of liberation" <br /><br />is contrasted by:<br /><br />"it erupts as a storm of telekinetic rage and revenge."<br /><br />A lot of approaches to liberation are precisely about rage and revenge. That's not really the inherent goal of liberation for itself, but liberation doesn't give power and wealth to those who stoke the rage and revenge. Paddy Ohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10442537362540160512noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-84955622789481641442015-03-28T10:57:10.322-05:002015-03-28T10:57:10.322-05:00It's the new Hillary narrative.It's the new Hillary narrative.madAsHellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01149940549262340795noreply@blogger.com