I spend 5 figures with Amex a year. I closed my account. I imagine I wasn't the only one. Those people have every right to put that play on based on free speech. I have every right to end my support of a company that was helping fund it. Freedom works both ways.

(06-13-2017 06:03 PM)usmbacker Wrote:  I spend 5 figures with Amex a year. I closed my account. I imagine I wasn't the only one. Those people have every right to put that play on based on free speech. I have every right to end my support of a company that was helping fund it. Freedom works both ways.

Absolutely agree.

As is often the case, liberals continuously display a level of hypocrisy unmatched by others. The Shakespeare in the Park only continues a long history of swinging from both sides of the plate.

Conflating an obvious Trump assassination with a previous black's portrayal of Caesar, reminds me of the differing outrage when applied to casting.

When "Miss Saigon" first appeared on Broadway (in the late 1980s), there were complaints that Europeans were cast to play the roles of Asians. Recently when "Miss Saigon" returned as a revival, the proglodytes congratulated themselves that the casting was appropriately filled with Asians actors.

Yet the current mega-hit "Hamilton", which casts all sorts of dark actors as white historical figures, is celebrated as liberating.

The liberals must be so blinded by their arrogance, they can't help but trip over their ignorance.

(06-14-2017 07:16 AM)LeFlâneur Wrote:  As is often the case, liberals continuously display a level of hypocrisy unmatched by others. The Shakespeare in the Park only continues a long history of swinging from both sides of the plate.

Conflating an obvious Trump assassination with a previous black's portrayal of Caesar, reminds me of the differing outrage when applied to casting.

When "Miss Saigon" first appeared on Broadway (in the late 1980s), there were complaints that Europeans were cast to play the roles of Asians. Recently when "Miss Saigon" returned as a revival, the proglodytes congratulated themselves that the casting was appropriately filled with Asians actors.

Yet the current mega-hit "Hamilton", which casts all sorts of dark actors as white historical figures, is celebrated as liberating.

The liberals must be so blinded by their arrogance, they can't help but trip over their ignorance.

in real life, 'they' went after the Whip this morning....

(06-13-2017 04:48 PM)DefCONNOne Wrote:  

(06-13-2017 11:07 AM)tennis2k4 Wrote:  check two replies above yours or google it like a regular person.

I'm not sure what Owl said, but I'm pretty sure he said it with smug superiority. He's better than you, and definitely better than I, in all facets of life. Just ask him he'll tell you.

WTF brought that on?

(06-13-2017 04:41 PM)Kaplony Wrote:  True classics, such as this play, don't need a modern setting or characters to be relatable. The fact that the audience didn't live "A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away..." hasn't stopped the Star Wars series from being arguably the most popular movies of all time. If the topic and story-telling are good it will reach the audience.

Uhm.. Kap, you may not realize this, but Star Wars (as originally written) adaptation of another story, in this case a Japanese one, "The Hidden Fortress". (Although Phantom Menace is supposedly much closer to THF)

Doesn't mean it's not necessarily a good retelling (it is), but it made it a lot more relatable

Quote:It seems coming up with an original story was harder than Lucas realised—despite claiming that he was determined to make his own “superhero in outer space” adventure, he would end up adapting another story for his first proper story synopsis, completed after the disastrous Journal of the Whills attempt. Aside from Flash Gordon, the other main influence, at least for Lucas’ initial conception of Star Wars, is the Japanese samurai films of Akira Kurosawa, but in particular 1958’s The Hidden Fortress

And even Kirosawa's stuff wasn't totally original:

Quote:He often adapted Shakespeare, remaking King Lear in 1985 as Ran and Macbeth in 1957 as Throne of Blood, and frequently sourced folk tales and novels as the basis for many of his stories, such as in Red Beard, Dersu Uzala, The Idiot, Rashomon and Hidden Fortress itself.

When will the play showing a shooting of Republican Congressmen be produced by this group.