Comments on: Fifteen second “Wicked” review http://www.bookwormroom.com/2009/12/22/fifteen-second-wicked-review/ Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 06:19:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Bookworm http://www.bookwormroom.com/2009/12/22/fifteen-second-wicked-review/comment-page-1/#comment-84768 Bookworm Wed, 23 Dec 2009 23:40:46 +0000 http://www.bookwormroom.com/?p=10100#comment-84768 <p>It's funny that you say that, Mike, about the reflexive need nowadays to denigrate the good.  History is full of revisionism.  Americans evil, dictators good.  Washington and Jefferson are evil slave owners; the slave dealers in Africa were entrepreneurs trying to balance their needs against the evil white man's.  The Indians, rather than being people with the usual mix of good and evil, were plaster stains; while the Europeans who came over were, without exception, genocidal maniacs.</p> <p>Of course, this isn't new.  Shakespeare was a master at uplifting and destroying old reputations to suit current political needs.  He just did it with more elan than the modern crowd.</p> It’s funny that you say that, Mike, about the reflexive need nowadays to denigrate the good.  History is full of revisionism.  Americans evil, dictators good.  Washington and Jefferson are evil slave owners; the slave dealers in Africa were entrepreneurs trying to balance their needs against the evil white man’s.  The Indians, rather than being people with the usual mix of good and evil, were plaster stains; while the Europeans who came over were, without exception, genocidal maniacs.

Of course, this isn’t new.  Shakespeare was a master at uplifting and destroying old reputations to suit current political needs.  He just did it with more elan than the modern crowd.

]]> By: Mike Devx http://www.bookwormroom.com/2009/12/22/fifteen-second-wicked-review/comment-page-1/#comment-84734 Mike Devx Wed, 23 Dec 2009 04:53:00 +0000 http://www.bookwormroom.com/?p=10100#comment-84734 Start with a beloved classic, with archetypical characters who are clearly good and clearly evil.  The good are virtuous, and the evil are nefarious.  Good triumphs; evil gets its just rewards.   Now seize that moral classic and completely pervert everything about it.  And there you have Wicked, or the Jim Carrey Grinch movie.  It's an assault even upon the idea that we know what good and evil are, that we can recognize them.  The goal is to leave you adrift, impressionable, vulnerable, and programmable; incapable of moral judgment.   Start with a beloved classic, with archetypical characters who are clearly good and clearly evil.  The good are virtuous, and the evil are nefarious.  Good triumphs; evil gets its just rewards.
 
Now seize that moral classic and completely pervert everything about it.  And there you have Wicked, or the Jim Carrey Grinch movie.  It’s an assault even upon the idea that we know what good and evil are, that we can recognize them.  The goal is to leave you adrift, impressionable, vulnerable, and programmable; incapable of moral judgment.
 

]]> By: Ymarsakar http://www.bookwormroom.com/2009/12/22/fifteen-second-wicked-review/comment-page-1/#comment-84701 Ymarsakar Tue, 22 Dec 2009 20:40:55 +0000 http://www.bookwormroom.com/?p=10100#comment-84701 I would have made the Wicked Witch of the West into a republican, and the do gooder Goody Witch into the good for nothing fake liberal arrogant elitist.     Imagine the fun I could have with that, juxtaposed against a corrupt Obama Wizard and Emanuel apprentice? I would have made the Wicked Witch of the West into a republican, and the do gooder Goody Witch into the good for nothing fake liberal arrogant elitist.
 
 
Imagine the fun I could have with that, juxtaposed against a corrupt Obama Wizard and Emanuel apprentice?

]]> By: SADIE http://www.bookwormroom.com/2009/12/22/fifteen-second-wicked-review/comment-page-1/#comment-84684 SADIE Tue, 22 Dec 2009 15:48:23 +0000 http://www.bookwormroom.com/?p=10100#comment-84684 Congress/Senate The Musical - All Wicked All the Time   Production values:  n/a Performance quality:  n/a Book: "We the people" heavily edited for <em>staged</em> production to: "What people" Music: We're in the money, We're in the money; We've got a lot of what it takes to get along! We're in the money, The sky is sunny...   Congress/Senate The Musical – All Wicked All the Time
 
Production values:  n/a
Performance quality:  n/a
Book: “We the people” heavily edited for staged production to: “What people”
Music:
We’re in the money, We’re in the money; We’ve got a lot of what it takes to get along! We’re in the money, The sky is sunny…
 

]]> By: BobK http://www.bookwormroom.com/2009/12/22/fifteen-second-wicked-review/comment-page-1/#comment-84683 BobK Tue, 22 Dec 2009 15:14:04 +0000 http://www.bookwormroom.com/?p=10100#comment-84683 Excellent review, Book!  I saw the same touring company (I believe) in Seattle in October. But I would add:  "Thematic content:  morally postmodern and relativistic" Excellent review, Book!  I saw the same touring company (I believe) in Seattle in October.
But I would add:  ”Thematic content:  morally postmodern and relativistic”

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