#26
Posted: 11/12/08 at 12:54pm
Splendero3: You are entitled to your opinion but you haven’t debated in an intelligent way (unlike Foster above, who I don’t take issue with) because you used inappropriate examples to illustrate your points, so to repeat myself yet again…
1) The appearance of Billy’s mother is a metaphor, as is Billy being hooked on to a rope. I learnt about metaphors in school sometime between the ages of 10 and 12 hence me assuming you were that age. Plenty of other theatrical productions use similar metaphors where characters speak to other characters who aren’t there in the actuality of the scene. Follies is an example, where the older characters interact with their younger selves, but there are many more in the pantheon of theatrical drama.
2) The dancing dresses echo and reference British Pantomime and Music Hall traditions, as does the long finale, as do the moments when the onstage performers acknowledge the audience eg Billy and Michael saying “Just like we rehearsed” to each other during the same song. It may have “made no sense” to you but it did to everyone who either understood what was going on or who looked outside of their own worldview to try.
3) Billy walking up the aisle leaving his friend onstage on the bicycle echos the sort of amateur entertainment the miners and their families would put on for themselves in their village social club. To reflect that sort of entertainment was a conscious decision made on the part of the author and director as can be read in the interviews they have given to the media. Do you honestly think that Stephen Daldry who directed An Inspector Calls in such a complex manner (e.g. different timezones inside and outside the house) would make anything other than a reasoned, deliberate, conscious decision? “DUH!”
4) Next time you’re in the UK let me know – I’ll drive you to Easington and you can personally tell the miners that you’re smarter than they are because you’re not amused by crotch jokes. I’ll even drive you to hospital when they’ve finished with you. Alternatively try to understand TBD2’s post, who deals with your ignorant snobbery more objectively.
You keep saying that you understand the show but you post nothing to evidence this. As I am getting bored out of my skull by repeating myself I shall not respond to you again unless you address the points I make by posting intelligent, substantive, justified comments instead of hiding behind your (repeat) bog-standard text book analysis.
1) The appearance of Billy’s mother is a metaphor, as is Billy being hooked on to a rope. I learnt about metaphors in school sometime between the ages of 10 and 12 hence me assuming you were that age. Plenty of other theatrical productions use similar metaphors where characters speak to other characters who aren’t there in the actuality of the scene. Follies is an example, where the older characters interact with their younger selves, but there are many more in the pantheon of theatrical drama.
2) The dancing dresses echo and reference British Pantomime and Music Hall traditions, as does the long finale, as do the moments when the onstage performers acknowledge the audience eg Billy and Michael saying “Just like we rehearsed” to each other during the same song. It may have “made no sense” to you but it did to everyone who either understood what was going on or who looked outside of their own worldview to try.
3) Billy walking up the aisle leaving his friend onstage on the bicycle echos the sort of amateur entertainment the miners and their families would put on for themselves in their village social club. To reflect that sort of entertainment was a conscious decision made on the part of the author and director as can be read in the interviews they have given to the media. Do you honestly think that Stephen Daldry who directed An Inspector Calls in such a complex manner (e.g. different timezones inside and outside the house) would make anything other than a reasoned, deliberate, conscious decision? “DUH!”
4) Next time you’re in the UK let me know – I’ll drive you to Easington and you can personally tell the miners that you’re smarter than they are because you’re not amused by crotch jokes. I’ll even drive you to hospital when they’ve finished with you. Alternatively try to understand TBD2’s post, who deals with your ignorant snobbery more objectively.
You keep saying that you understand the show but you post nothing to evidence this. As I am getting bored out of my skull by repeating myself I shall not respond to you again unless you address the points I make by posting intelligent, substantive, justified comments instead of hiding behind your (repeat) bog-standard text book analysis.
Updated On: 11/12/08 at 12:54 PM
