Oklahoma!

[jamesq]

I saw Oklahoma! today. It's on it's 60th anniversary release and it was this month's oldie movie at Cineplex. I was expecting an oldie, somewhat staid, musical. That's not what I got.

Oh, it was a good musical all right, with some good dancing to go with it. It also had:

A fair amount of violence.

A surprising amount of enjoyable ballet.

Casual use of pornography by both cowboys and old ladies.

A couple successfully negotiating a polyamorous relationship.

A nightmarish dream sequence involving cross-dressers that could have been filmed by Fellini.

I feel that someone could do a successful version of this movie with the sexual subtext cranked to 11 that would end up being high low comedy.

For you folks who have no idea why I added the picture above:

Comments

[minyata.livejournal.com]

Oooo Ok. I clearly need to re-watch this. I was in a production of Oklahoma in High School, I remember none of this subtext.

[jamesq]

The two songs "I Cain't Say No" and "All Er Nuthin'" are especially obvious examples. I'm curious how a high school production would have handled those.

[(Anonymous)]

By hoping everyone was oblivious to innuendo? I honestly didn't even think of those aspects once during my run in the show.