Comments on: The Producers http://ellenrebekah.com/155 Tue, 03 Aug 2010 02:01:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Ginger http://ellenrebekah.com/155/comment-page-1#comment-91 Ginger Fri, 28 Jul 2006 18:22:24 +0000 http://ellenrebekah.com/?p=155#comment-91 I haven't seen the remake (this version) but I saw the original, and ha, once was enough (I thought it was something you should see once, but it wasn't something I would want to, or need to, watch again), I thought Gene Wilder's character (Bloom) was hilarious, and I sympathized with him. I think the original had a double purpose to it (not to say the remake doesn't, but I think the time in which the first came out gave it a bit more of a punch). Laughter cures, and if you can find a way to laugh at Hitler, you can find a way to start to heal yourself in reflection to how the Holocaust affected you. Although part of the reason you laugh is because he is –DUMB/GAY- and there are loads of -DUMB sex object women-, which is just as wrong, but it is also something people are nervous about, so again, a little laughter makes you be able to swallow it. (That could also be to make them seem less powerful, still wrong, but I guess people have a lot of hang-ups) (There is a lot of information coming out now... no pun intended... about why it is that homosexuality and cross dressing makes for comedy, a lot of OLD, OLD, OLD comedies feature dashing young actors (bob hope, gene Kelly, and the like) in women's clothing, and somehow everyone laughs. You can say it is because it makes you uncomfortable, or because it is an obvious role reversal and thusly catches you off guard a makes you laugh, but for whatever reason, people view it as entertaining, as long as it is an ACT. Anyway I got carried away. LOL) I am usually pretty much alone on the "enough sex junk already" train of thought, but then again, that is probably why I stick to movies that either don't have it at all, or treat it with respect. I guess I just didn't see the swindling issue as the main meaning of the movie, I guess because it was dealt with (court stuff and whatnot), so my mind wanders to the underlying issue of making Hitler a person whom can't hurt you, and making it all a farce, something you can laugh at as the more important message. I haven’t seen the remake (this version) but I saw the original, and ha, once was enough (I thought it was something you should see once, but it wasn’t something I would want to, or need to, watch again), I thought Gene Wilder’s character (Bloom) was hilarious, and I sympathized with him. I think the original had a double purpose to it (not to say the remake doesn’t, but I think the time in which the first came out gave it a bit more of a punch). Laughter cures, and if you can find a way to laugh at Hitler, you can find a way to start to heal yourself in reflection to how the Holocaust affected you. Although part of the reason you laugh is because he is –DUMB/GAY- and there are loads of -DUMB sex object women-, which is just as wrong, but it is also something people are nervous about, so again, a little laughter makes you be able to swallow it. (That could also be to make them seem less powerful, still wrong, but I guess people have a lot of hang-ups)
(There is a lot of information coming out now… no pun intended… about why it is that homosexuality and cross dressing makes for comedy, a lot of OLD, OLD, OLD comedies feature dashing young actors (bob hope, gene Kelly, and the like) in women’s clothing, and somehow everyone laughs. You can say it is because it makes you uncomfortable, or because it is an obvious role reversal and thusly catches you off guard a makes you laugh, but for whatever reason, people view it as entertaining, as long as it is an ACT.
Anyway I got carried away. LOL)

I am usually pretty much alone on the “enough sex junk already” train of thought, but then again, that is probably why I stick to movies that either don’t have it at all, or treat it with respect.

I guess I just didn’t see the swindling issue as the main meaning of the movie, I guess because it was dealt with (court stuff and whatnot), so my mind wanders to the underlying issue of making Hitler a person whom can’t hurt you, and making it all a farce, something you can laugh at as the more important message.

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