Your Film Professor

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1. Barnabas C. says:

   April 22, 2023 at 11:25 pm

   Instead of trying to modernize the characters to woke standards, just stay true to the book. The 1973 musical remake was a disaster for almost the same reason. Unfortunately, it’s all unrealistic.

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   • reagan@yourfilmprofessor.com says:

     May 2, 2023 at 11:14 pm

     Thanks for the provocative response! In my view, as I suggest in my post, for a film whose vision IS wokeness, it makes more sense to me to update its cutting edge woke sensibility to today’s (progressive) standards. Again, as I suggest in my post, this film was amazingly “woke” (progressive) for the time, but it is mostly dated now. If one were to stay true to the book, a remake would never happen, because the book is dated as well. I’m sure both author and filmmaker would give their blessing to an updating that stayed true to spirit of what they were trying to accomplish, to create a vision of a humanity that is progressing itself to higher level of being. We can agree on one thing, the 1973 musical remake “was a disaster” though I would argue that it was just a bad film, not bad because of its attempt to update the material.

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