After Tchaikovsky’s Sleeping Beauty…
Teliqua: Great ballet. And a
full orchestra with it. Good deal: two for the price of one. The ending had me
a bit puzzled though. The wedding act having that parade of fairy tales.
Cinderella. Red Riding Hood. Puss in Boots. What was that all about?
Tawanda: Wedding
entertainment.
Teliqua: Having all those
extra stories in at the end seemed a bit gratuitous. I mean, a ballet is usually
a standalone story. Don Quixote, Peter Pan, Swan Lake. Why throw in that medley
of Cinderella and Red Riding Hood?
Tawanda: Interesting
question.
Teliqua: Why didn’t they
throw in Mickey Mouse?
Tawanda: Silly. Mickey Mouse
is a character with many stories. Those others are one-story characters.
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Voice-over
The narrative arc of Sleeping
Beauty experiences a series of tremors at the end of the ballet version.
Problem: Evil fairy casts a
spell on Princess Aurora.
Conflict: Lilac Fairy
attempts a fix but the willful teenage princess, ignoring the cautions of
parents, grabs the spindle and falls into a coma anyway.
Solution: Enter handsome
princess who kisses Aurora awake; wedding celebrations include medley of other
fairy tales; a singing, dancing, happy ending.
But then... we get...
And as for Mickey Mouse? He started
out in 1928 as a bumbling suitor of Minnie Mouse but morphed into a fixit man
with a bunch of interesting friends. Now his name is a pejorative epithet for
dysfunctional machines or procedures such as “Mickey Mouse outfit.” This would
be hard to fit in.
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