Happy Sunday! I am maybe actually feeling healthy, but I don’t want to jinx it. Spent yesterday sleeping and reading and eating and trying to let my body kick the infection, and it MAY have worked? Still have 5 days of antibiotics left and I won’t feel really safe until I finish them all.
Bhansali
Thank you adh1325 for alerting me to this! There’s a new Bhansali film announced with Alia, Vijay, and Ranbir and it’s rumored to be a remake of Sangam? Not sure how I feel about that.
Well, I know that I hate Ranbir, especially in Bhansali movies, so that’s a bummer. Sangam is SUCH a good classic story, if it is handled correctly. ”Correctly” meaning giving the female character the agency she deserves. It’s not about either of the men “winning” her, it’s about her making a choice and wanting that to be respected. The whole film revolves around her final speech where she takes control and tells them off for thinking it is all about them. That’s what makes it the best love triangle. Do I trust Bhansali to say “nah, there is no One True Love, it’s about the choices we make in life and others respecting them”? Or is he gonna ruin it by making it all about First Love True Love One Love?
Dharma Announcement
I think this is a stupid STUPID promotional idea. They are trying to get a discussion and speculation and buzz going before they do the full announcement, but instead they are just going to get everyone to hate and judge the thing before it is even announced. Should have avoided mentioning the cast at all, should have said something like “A new Dharma love story, what color will the poster be?”
And finally, Wizard of Oz! Today is the 85 anniversary of the release. I’m kind of curious, is this a movie that resonates with DCIBers? It doesn’t for me. I love the books, read all of them as a kid. But the movie was too surreal and strange for me, I preferred traditional musicals from the era with love at first sight and backstage storylines and all that. At the same time, I can understand why Oz is so big. Everything in it is so surreal, that it becomes timeless. You don’t realize you are watching something from the 1930s with a bunch of old vaudevillians, you are watching something from any time anywhere.
