SOME ENCHANTED EVENING, YOU MAY GET CHLAMYDIA: While the world still waits indifferently for the Jim Carrey-Jake Gyllenhaal remake of Damn Yankees, along comes word that South Pacific will be returning to the screen with "a tougher, more realistic retelling of the same classic story of two very different people whose love for each other transcends their enormous cultural differences."
Anyone want to participate in the casting or rewriting? Or should we just sit back, assume that they'll let Matthew Morrison reprise the role of Lt. Cable, and hope that "tougher, more realistic" doesn't quite mean we're getting the graphic realism of HBO's The South Pacific.
In the newer version, Bloody Mary operates a bordello, financed by Emile De Becque, on Bali Hai stocked with teenage prostitutes. Luther Billis attempts to muscle in on the operation . Lt. Cable falls in love with Bloody Mary's best young working girl.
ReplyDeleteSo is Liat, like, 12 in this version? 14?
ReplyDelete14. Also, Emile De Becque seduces Nellie Forbush so that she could take over the Bali Hai operation from Bloody Mary who he believes is skimming off the top.
ReplyDeleteI vote that they let Kristin Chenoweth play Nellie and NPH play, hmmm, Billis? No, let NPH play the Cable & make Liat a hot teenage boy.
ReplyDelete<span>I know nothing of the plot of this musical, but given the casualty rate of young lieutenants in the Pacific theater, I'd say that Lieutenant Cable only appears in this musical from about minute twenty to minute thirty, right after Lt. Acker and Lt. Bellisari are shot by snipers for openly reading maps and using binoculars, and right before Lt. Davis catches a mortar, Lt. Ehrlenmeier gets it in a midnight sneak attack, Lt. Felder is killed leading a charge up Sugar Loaf, Lt. Grzcyzkowsi is killed holding Sugar Loaf, Lt. Hovenkamp is killed in the retreat back down Sugar Loaf, and Lt. Isley fails to notice that his prisoner is hiding a grenade. </span>
ReplyDeleteThanks for the Daily Earworm!
ReplyDeleteI'm gonna wash that man right outta my hair......
In the adult version, though, Nellie ... yeah, ick.
ReplyDeleteGOD. DAMNIT.
ReplyDeleteInsofar as both Hammerstein and Michener are from Bucks County, they should move the setting to Ralph Stover State Park.
I love chenowith, but no way is she buyable as a young nurse on the big screen no matter how adorable and wonderful she would be--see Glen Close in the TV movie version to get an idea of what I mean.
ReplyDeleteAlthough, I would totally love me some Christina Hendricks as Nellie or crap last name Agron in Glee as my Nellie who would be more age appropriate (hell cast Gemma Mays and I would still be happy).
A tubing trip gone bad? With the Hot Dog Man as Bloody Mary?
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