Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Re Making Ignorance Chic: Cinderella Three Penny Opera Crucible Marilyn Palin Beauty and the Beast Mise En Scene
Mise en scene:
We show a 'fancy' dressing room, backstage in a run down theater.
Die Dreigroschenoper.
Bouquets of flowers here and there.
Sarah Palin is seated facing 75 degrees left. Kneeling at her feet and holding her hand reverently is a bedraggled right wing admirer, say Rove, or some equally prominent (i.e. identifiable) admirer, resembling also the Maverick Executive, Macheath, and also even Robert Macaire if possible.
He could also be wearing some kind of Macaire esque dressing gown, implying he is one of the players as well.
One might even depict him trying on her foot a slipper...........but this might be 'pushing' it.
She is looking into a long dressing mirror (not at him), seated at a long dressing table at her left.
Her image, reflected to the viewer from that mirror, is that of Marilyn Monroe, not Sarah Palin.
Behind her, is a full length wardrobe mirror, showing Rove, Rush, or whoever, also coincidentally mirrored toward the viewer as, say, Casanova, Hitler, Attila The Hun, it does not so much matter exactly who, etc.
Another mise en scene might depict his reflection not overtly politically, e.g. as that of 'The Beast', from Beauty and The Beast, the television program from a couple of decades ago. That might work better.
At the back of the dressing room, are three busts, one of Socrates, one of Alcibiades, the third of say Ronald Reagan, wide but side by side facing front. The busts are each atop a pyramid of two bonobos, each 'hear no evil' and 'see no evil' respectively.
A poster, from The Crucible, is somewhere on the wall shared by the wardrobe mirror, at right.
Some phenomenological reference is noted somewhere, a poster of Sartre would be good.
Caption above,
Pirate Jenny: Some Like It Yacht.
or are you really as wonderful as you seem?"
A musical reference would be perhaps 'Mac The Knife', or even 'Pirate Jenny', rather than the referenced melody from Cinderella, 'Do I Love You Because You're Beautiful?'
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