“Everything the Left touches, it destroys”
— Dennis Prager
To add a corollary: everything modern, left-infused culture touches, it also destroys.
For a variety of reasons, Cyrano De Bergerac was one of the bits of literature I grew up positively steeped in. I won’t say Dad – a speech, writing and literature teacher – was obsessed, per se, with the De Rostand book and the many theatrical and film versions that’ve appeared over the years (Jose Ferrer’s version was a particular favorite, especially once we got a VHS) being fairly constant fare at the Berg house.
And if you’re not familiar, it’s a pretty brilliant concept. I won’t spoil it; it’s most accessible version to Americans maybe the 1987 Steve Martin version ,Roxanne, which is as 1980’s a Steve Martin comedy as you can think of, but I think is an underrated adaptation…
…that stayed fairly faithful to the concept of the original story.
Which is more than we can say for what Woke Hollywood’s done with it.
If they decide to do a “woke” remake of Casablanca or It’s a Wonderful Life or Best Years of our Lives…
Oh, I fear I’ve already said too much…
Sadly, every TV show, including the staged reality shows, are trying to show how woke they are, too. The number of LGBTQ characters showing up is just mind boggling. There is an ad running now for “Naked and Afraid” highlighting a trans guy as the female participant.
Gotta confess, I never read it and never saw the film. If there’d been a Sci Fi version set in outer space with laser beams and starships, I’d have been all over it. 19th Century French romanticism? Not so much.
On the other hand, there are a ton of Great Books I never finished. Moby Dick. Ulysses. Moby Dick. A la Recherche du Temps Perdu. Last of the Mohicans (but I read what Twain said about Cooper). Tons more. Just couldn’t do it.
To each his own.
Gotta confess…
Shoot, I could’ve written that. I’m not alone!
Roxanne was great, and Martin was perfect in the role.
Regarding our woke era, I’m a fan of Scottish Noir mysteries (book and screen). I saw one available on my screening subscription that sounded interesting so I thought I’d give it a view. The description didn’t bother to mention that the protagonist detective is gay. I guess they assumed that you’d figure it out son enough when the opening scene features an intense round of tonsil-hockey with his husband. If it had been worked into the story later for context I likely would have just fast-forwarded if I was liking the story. But if this is the FIRST THING you want me to know, then it doesn’t bode well. I bailed.
Amazon will ruin Tolkien.
They had a fantastic, fully fleshed out Tolkien prequel called “The Children of Huron,” about how a curse works its way through generations of a mortal family thousands of years before LOTR. Amazon chose to invent its own story line, I can imagine why — you can’t make a female the hero of “The Children of Hurin.”
you can’t make a female the hero of “The Children of Hurin.”
Why not? If you can make black elves and black dwarves, how hard is a sex change?
I don’t know MP, I thought Ama$on did not have rights to anything but the content of 4 LoR books (including Hobbit). No rights to ANYTHING else, as in NOTHING under the threat of grievous bodily harm.
NW, I just had my physical and Doc showed me health index calculator. If I declare as a female, my risk factors will go down by a half! science™!
I saw a trailer for a new film that features a black Viking queen (of course)….
Imagine being a kid today.
Blade -why didn’t they set it in England during the time of the Romans? They could have simply renamed Boudica as “Foxy Bodacious”.
lol