Another 3T period piece: Thoroughly Modern Millie. It catches the spirit of Lost women making it (with the aid of some seduction) in the business world of the 1920's. The 1920's are one of the most sordid decades in human history that did not involve a horrific war (aside from the Russian Civil War) for intellectual and economic depravity. The reputation of the Roaring 'Twenties for moral sleaze is well deserved.
Trailer:
I have one big problem with the movie: particularly vile anti-Chinese stereotypes. However fun and technically excellent this movie is due in part to excellent performances by Julie Andrews, Mary Tyler Moore, and Carol Channing, you do not want to show this to anyone who might be of any East Asian ancestry or might be connected by marriage to someone of East Asian ancestry. A hint: I would rather be in Chinatown in Chicago than in some "methed-up" rural areas in which child abuse is rampant. Chinese-Americans are among several Model Minorities in America that I more trust than most of my fellow white Christians.
It could be remade soon, as it is a highly-successful Broadway play fifty-five years after the original was made. (Hard to believe, but Julie Andrews is nearly ninety and both Carol Channing and Mary Tyler Moore are deceased). I'd take out the white-slave stuff in a remake to be ethnically decent.
Still. I have to love the Art Deco style. (It was about as much Missionary as Lost)
A vignette of the musical from NBC's Today:
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Trailer:
I have one big problem with the movie: particularly vile anti-Chinese stereotypes. However fun and technically excellent this movie is due in part to excellent performances by Julie Andrews, Mary Tyler Moore, and Carol Channing, you do not want to show this to anyone who might be of any East Asian ancestry or might be connected by marriage to someone of East Asian ancestry. A hint: I would rather be in Chinatown in Chicago than in some "methed-up" rural areas in which child abuse is rampant. Chinese-Americans are among several Model Minorities in America that I more trust than most of my fellow white Christians.
It could be remade soon, as it is a highly-successful Broadway play fifty-five years after the original was made. (Hard to believe, but Julie Andrews is nearly ninety and both Carol Channing and Mary Tyler Moore are deceased). I'd take out the white-slave stuff in a remake to be ethnically decent.
Still. I have to love the Art Deco style. (It was about as much Missionary as Lost)
A vignette of the musical from NBC's Today:
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The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.