I keep seeing this advertisement around

[ricardienne]

and it keeps bothering me. I remember seeing the Yul Brynner movie as a kid, and loving the costumes and pageantry but being uncomfortable with it all the same (and that goes at least quintuple for Anna Lenowens' actual memoir). I think it's probably possible do to a more sensitive, deconstructed version of that musical (see e.g. the thoughts here), but advertising it as Disney's Beauty and Beast is really going the wrong direction!

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[foxinthestars.livejournal.com]

(Mostly a lurker here.) I just saw the Yul Brynner movie recently, and I enjoyed it on a "vintage/classic movie buff; now I get the references" level, but yeah. Just to grab one of the issues, I got to the end and was like "...because even the King of Siam has to die after one dance with a white woman."