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(7,431 posts)Initech
(100,068 posts)But seriously, fuck the religious right.
MayReasonRule
(1,461 posts)Enter stage left
(3,396 posts)was the musical.
Aristus
(66,328 posts)It was filmed in California and Arizona. Anyone who has ever actually been to Oklahoma and seen the film will find themselves asking "Where the fuck did all those hills and mountains come from?"
Not even the people singing and dancing about Oklahoma wanted to set foot there.
ZonkerHarris
(24,223 posts)MayReasonRule
(1,461 posts)After all, the whole plot revolves around who gets to take Laurey to the box social a coded consummation metaphor if ever there was one.
Violence is hardly scarce in Oklahoma! as far as sex goes. In fact, Oklahoma seems to be teeming with an undercurrent of unfulfilled sexual desire and violence waiting to emerge, be it between farmer and cowman or two eligible ladies. Each man seems willing to kill to obtain his love. Curly tries to convince Jud to commit suicide. Jud tries to kill Curly twice (once with a sexual toy). Will tells Ali he would kill him for Annie. Gertie Cummings has fights with both Annie and Laurey (rolling on the ground, of course).
Says Will:
Ali:
Obviously, any moral code isnt apparent to Ali. He wants to bed Annie in the Claremore Hotel. He also suggests that he, Laurey and Annie engage in a menage a trois by skinny dipping together. Hes been feeling up Annie behind the haystack (his confession that results in his shotgun engagement to Annie). At the end, hes caught in illicit (by Claremore standards) sex and forced by shotgun to marry Gertie Cummings. Finally, he sells garters and bloomers and other forbidden delights like drugs (the Egyptian smelling salts).
In Oklahoma!, women obtain sexual fulfillment when in a semi-drugged state. Laureys Dream is the most obvious example. Ado Annie, too, seems ever-comatose and virtually unresponsive, doggedly singing her number I Caint Say".
Let's not forget the end of the dream sequence with Jud lying on top of Laurey, having raped her while she was drugged...
I attended Harding University during the 80's when I was still embroiled within the Abrahamic Blood Cults.
I was astonished as I watched the live onstage performance, remembering the times as a child our parents reverentially watched it with us on our color TV. Wholly disgusted, I and my fiancé, now my honey of 40 plus years stood up and walked out.
Oklahoma - Same as it ever was.
May reason rule.
OAITW r.2.0
(24,467 posts)This vote kinda crosses Party ID.
RandySF
(58,799 posts)OAITW r.2.0
(24,467 posts)But maybe the pro-pot peeps couldn't bother to vote.
Mariana
(14,856 posts)Aristus
(66,328 posts)So alcohol is going to continue to be the only way to forget that one lives in f*****g Oklahoma?
SoCalDavidS
(9,998 posts)It's why they call it a Flyover State. I know they hate that term, but it's a fact.
walkingman
(7,609 posts)Behind the Aegis
(53,956 posts)All we get during votes like this are the hardcore bigoted, a-feared population.
Sky Jewels
(7,088 posts)Any liberals who live in that state, you are brave souls.