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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"Sound of Music" got edited or banned in my CA community..Nazi imagery
No link..reading story in my local paper.. Parent objected to Nazi in the play. The school district edited out nazi stuff. So i guess its just a play about singing now.
.planning editing. Or banning other plays even at.high school level because of parental objections
Other plays are contentious now that parents are emboldened to object
bucolic_frolic
(43,158 posts)"Somewhere over a rainbow" would seem ripe for banning in this climate. Reagan and the Chimpanzees too, "Bedtime for Bonzo".
riversedge
(70,214 posts)had to get his family over the mts to Switz. what is left--the romance--so Maria --can not marry the Captain??
gods!!
OldBaldy1701E
(5,128 posts)We can't have people escaping the regime and showing how corrupt it is. We can't have someone removing several good workers either. Time to change the script to show that Von Trapp was actually a good Nazi but just went along with his 'woke' friend to keep the liberals from taking his kids before they could pledge themselves to the one true power.
(This is only the beginning. They will try to censure anything and everything they don't like. And, they don't like anything other than Camazotz.)
whathehell
(29,067 posts)That including it would encourage prejudice against Nazis?
Demovictory9
(32,454 posts)whathehell
(29,067 posts)sinkingfeeling
(51,457 posts)learn about an evil, fascist, warmongering regime?
JanMichael
(24,886 posts)Both need to be tossed off a boat
Demovictory9
(32,454 posts)Or parent against nazis
JanMichael
(24,886 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,653 posts)kind of a boring world, eh?
Celerity
(43,349 posts)Lets Start at the Very Beginning Do-Re-Mi from The Sound of Music
As a Jew and lover of musicals living and studying in Vienna, Austria, in the 60s, I was interested in seeing The Sound of Music dubbed into German. When they sang Climb Every Mountain, the audience, living in an Alpine country, understandably laughed. It would be like hearing in Fullerton a song celebrating Drive Every Freeway. However, when Uncle Max, in anger and disgust, tore down the Nazi flag with its swastika, the whole audience gasped. They were still living under the shadow of Nazi-induced fear and hatred. Without that flag, without Maxs rebellion, the driving force of the story is lost.
The Sound of Music is, on its surface, a sweet love story about a Catholic Novitiate falling in love with a Baron and his children. However, its subplot is about the oldest daughter falling in love with a seemingly nice young man who reveals that he has joined the Nazi cause.
Underlying the plot, beneath its sugary and romantic surface is the seduction of good people by an ideology of hate and violence. The story is about this family standing against the Nazis and having to flee for their lives to Switzerland. Cutting out the reality of Naziism and its symbols renders this story meaningless. Replacing the rightly hated swastika with a rainbow or unicorn, or as in Europe today, an abstract lightning bolt, is to tell a lie. But its complicated.
If you are going to do The Sound of Music, cleaning it up is to change its meaning, but not cleaning it up can cause pain to people in the community and confuse 6th graders who may be dressed in brownshirts with swastikas and have to say Heil Hitler. Can they understand the hatred at the core of the symbols, and can such understanding lead to compassion and empathy for all who are hated, oppressed, and marginalized? Is this a teachable moment? I dont know.
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Demovictory9
(32,454 posts)Hekate
(90,678 posts)Crunchy Frog
(26,582 posts)and I was never "confused" by it.
What a load of hogwash.
msongs
(67,405 posts)allegorical oracle
(2,357 posts)without benefit of marriage.
Dr. Strange
(25,921 posts)considering Snow White's age is like 14.
Bucky
(54,005 posts)I think Disney movies ought to start having princesses be at least out of college and well along into their established careers before hooking up with future prince charmings. There's no reason why they can't have a mid-40s single mom as the next Disney Princess.
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)Bucky
(54,005 posts)Hunter Biden's lap top?
sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)dembotoz
(16,803 posts)BlackSkimmer
(51,308 posts)Can you tell us the name of the paper?
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kskiska
(27,045 posts)Demovictory9
(32,454 posts)Initech
(100,070 posts)This country has lost its' damn mind.
FakeNoose
(32,639 posts)If they don't object to how the Nozis are depicted (truthfully) how can you community have a problem with it?