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#1

Please Stop Saying EVERYTHING Is Too "Safe" A Choice

Posted: 2/1/12 at 11:19am

In the past 10 minutes I must have read that in almost every thread. Not every good casting choice is too "safe" and it seems to have become the new word du Jour around here.

CARRIE isn't "safe", it's stripped down and boring. Megan Hilty isn't "safe", she's extremely talented and good casting. Samantha Barks isn't "safe", she's a name people aren't familiar with and so on. This is the new it-phrase when someone doesn't like something and most of the time it doesn't even make sense.
#4

Please Stop Saying EVERYTHING Is Too

Posted: 2/1/12 at 11:24am

No cursing? No name-calling? This post is too safe.
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."
#5

Please Stop Saying EVERYTHING Is Too

Posted: 2/1/12 at 11:25am

This post is both definitive and edgy.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe." -John Guare, Landscape of the Body
#6

Please Stop Saying EVERYTHING Is Too

Posted: 2/1/12 at 11:26am

I think 'safe' is absolutely a valid choice to describe the new production of CARRIE and I think anyone reading the thread will see why I used that phrase. For my money, the creative team seems scared of the eccentric reputation of the original and are playing the material in this revival completely 'safe' robbing the story of its heightened theatricality.
#7

Please Stop Saying EVERYTHING Is Too

Posted: 2/1/12 at 11:26am

Exactly Kad. In the golden age, David Merrick would have ripped Oscar Hammerstein a new one for a post like this.
#8

Please Stop Saying EVERYTHING Is Too

Posted: 2/1/12 at 11:27am

It was nothing against you, MB. Since last night what I've "heard" and "seen" of CARRIE to me isn't safe, though. It's a case of bad writing. But who knows. :)
#9

Please Stop Saying EVERYTHING Is Too

Posted: 2/1/12 at 11:29am

Jordan, your soapbox is too safe. Your lack of snark is WAY TOO SAFE. You'r correct grammar? TOO SAFE TO HANDLE.
#10

Please Stop Saying EVERYTHING Is Too

Posted: 2/1/12 at 11:29am

It may be bad writing, but its presented in a directorial style that takes no risks and is completely 'safe'. Yes I said it. That word.
#14

Please Stop Saying EVERYTHING Is Too

Posted: 2/1/12 at 11:56am

It's like the use of the word "dire" which somehow seems to be used to show that you have a high artistic sensibility. Or something. I can't see that word without picturing the speaker in a cravat and smoking jacket holding a long black cigarette filter and ringing the bell for his houseboy.

And I absolutely HATE the use of the word "abortion" to describe something you simply don't like. I mean, really? To me, it says a lot more about the person using it than what they are trying to convey. I pretty much discount the opinion as nothing more than an attempt to be hyperbolic and provocative.

Thank you, Jordan. I feel better getting all that out of my system.
"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian
#15

Please Stop Saying EVERYTHING Is Too

Posted: 2/1/12 at 11:58am

This thread is way too safe.
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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#17

Please Stop Saying EVERYTHING Is Too

Posted: 2/1/12 at 12:42pm

And I absolutely HATE the use of the word "abortion" to describe something you simply don't like.

It drives me crazy because it doesn't make any sense. Plus, I don't think of abortion as a bad thing.
#18

Please Stop Saying EVERYTHING Is Too

Posted: 2/1/12 at 12:54pm

You guys are being such NAZIS!
"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.” ~ Muhammad Ali
#20

Please Stop Saying EVERYTHING Is Too

Posted: 2/1/12 at 1:07pm

I don't understand your outrage. Being too safe is no different than using a blonde wig or wearing blackface.
#21

Please Stop Saying EVERYTHING Is Too

Posted: 2/1/12 at 1:53pm

When an artistic choice lines up with conventional wisdom, it's deemed "safe," but when it's a bold risk, it's met with scorn, skepticism, and derision.
Formerly SirNotAppearing - Joined 3/08
#23

Please Stop Saying EVERYTHING Is Too

Posted: 2/1/12 at 2:04pm

Using RAKU as your living room is safe.
"The sexual energy between the mother and son really concerns me!"-random woman behind me at Next to Normal "I want to meet him after and bang him!"-random woman who exposed her breasts at Rock of Ages, referring to James Carpinello

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