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Thread #144976 Message #3361846
Posted By: MorwenEdhelwen1
10-Jun-12 - 09:24 PM
Thread Name: Anyone want to discuss The Desert Song?
Subject: RE: Anyone want to discuss The Desert Song?
Returning to something I thought of when looking back at JJ's Post; not only is Adah (not from Hammerstein, but Rida Johnson Young in Naughty Marietta), the stereotype of the submissive, beautiful non-White woman (which sets my teeth on edge as an Asian) but she and Azuri from TDS might both be cardboard-cut-outs. However, IMO the scene where Azuri says "White men have hurt me- hurt me much. Today I have been paid back for all of my hurts" makes her just a bit sympathetic.