"Compounding dis-interest": Type slowly. Think, more slowly. Run-on. Then, post.
Musicals made me nauseous. My older sisters would do Oklahoma and West Side Story and I would literally panic. Flee. It was very hard on my budding ability to make sense of things; I was worried, really worried, I could possibly one day be forced into "performing" in "their world".
Somewhere since, I discovered musicals are "only entertainment". Yeah right. Now, I like the Wizard of Oz and parts of Mary Poppins. (And the newer "Metropolis", if that counts.)
Maybe Dorothy, in Oz, is one of our first "strong women." She's kind to Todo; has to coddle three male figures constantly to get anywhere; and valiantly, valiantly chews out the despot ~ (after her courage saves her flock/brethern, she even wrings a transformation in the wizard, the local "devil"). Come to think of it, all of the "real" authority figures in the film are female, down to Aunty Em.
And Mary Poppins, man! Does she keep Mr Wilson in formation. I think that's his name; the banker guy. "Father".
I had a crush on her. (Mary.) From the third grade, to...well, to the present. Would rather have a date with her, than many modern women I can think of. (Except Mary, my spouse, of course. And the women 'round here, of course.) Yeah right. Mary has a carpetbag and can fly.
She was a perfect combination of order and disorder. Authority and revolution. Clean prim-ness, and heat. And the fact Ms Pop can sing, really sing, is kind of...attractive.
Hooo-weeeeeh.
Mary Poppins is smut.
But inspirational, revolutionary, esteem-building smut.
The Wizard of Oz, is...
kind of biblical.
And very inspirational.
Beautiful.
A modern epic.
A surprise. |
