any moment big or small is a moment after all...

[orangerful]

You know, I thought I had worked my way through the Into the Woods panic last week, talking myself down and trying to accept the movie version of the musical.

Then I found THIS! (SPOILERS IF YOU HAVE NOT SEEN THE MUSICAL!)

And now I am raging again because this means some of my favorite songs may be cut or at least drastically altered to fit this new version of the play. Sondheim doesn't sound particularly happy about it, just sort of...begrudging. Like "Yes, I cashed your check already so I'm legally obligated to rewrite my story, better me than you...assholes"

At least I got the DVD from the library.

Comments

[elizalavelle.livejournal.com]

I feel like Johnny Depp will just do the wolf song as it's meant to be. Kind of like how he made Jack Sparrow into a non Disney approved character and Disney had to deal. I'm hopeful on that front.

Less hopeful though about the movie. *sigh* Cutting the innuendo makes it what... a normal fairytale for kids? Isn't that pretty much exactly not the point?

Plus I saw Into The Woods as a kid the first time. Innuendo right over my head.

[orangerful.livejournal.com]

I've been thinking a LOT about movies I watched as a kid that would not be allowed to exist today. I mean, Monty Python, Young Frankenstein, Spaceballs, Who Framed Roger Rabbit -- all those jokes FLEW over my head but it didn't stop my from enjoying the rest of the movie. When I saw "Into the Woods" as a child, I only saw the music and the fairy tales, not the more adult story about growing up. Or, at least, it wasn't relevant to me until much later. I am just sick of companies like Disney wussing out. It's like Disney - watch the original Snow White that YOU MADE and Bambi that YOU MADE! Those movies have something in them for everyone. You don't need to sanitize the world!

[elizalavelle.livejournal.com]

So much this! Kids generally don't get the lessons they aren't ready for yet. They'll pick up on things as they get older but until then they enjoy what they enjoy and the rest won't register.

Clearly don't take a 6 year old to see a torture porn horror movie, but something with an adult idea floating around isn't harmful.