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Hansel and Gretel: losing their religion — 16 Comments

  1. If you’re going to do Humperdinck, do Humperdinck. It’s one thing to completely change a setting in an attempt to make something relevant — Hansel and Gretel get lost in the mall — and quite another to take a hatchet and lop off the gripping bits. Child or adult, angels have it all over chefs. Chefs!!

  2. I have quoted the leaders of the womens movement from the progressive sex liberating source and yet we can’t give them credit for destroying all the foundations of society as they always said.

    When feminist authors wrote heather has two momies and wanted Stalinist state did you really thing the things you loved would remain?
    Everything you love HAS to go.
    And now it is gone and men can’t bring it back
    how would Xmas and traditions survive the end of marraige and family?
    Can hand down such if there is no one to hand it to a d it’s illegal and oppressive to do so

    duh and double duh

    with the pop collapse all that will be erased
    you go girls!!!

    Without dads there is no family
    with family being redefined as local neighbors and no grandchildren there is no tradition
    and with the despising of uplifting music art and religion

    you and others helped it all go away without realizing what you were doing!!! And negated and marginalized the men who would stop it
    cathderals, great music, incredible art, almost all by men
    destroyed I favor of women otherwise if corteze don’t burn the ships of culture and history we might go back

    it’s too funny
    in trying to make a better world women destroyed it for the Fabians to remake it!!!

  3. Can’t have free love and all that and Christian or Jewish traditions
    disrespcting yourself your body your family and progeny is incompatible!!!!

  4. Dear Neo-neocon, thank you for enriching my life this Christmas Eve. The loveliness of the scene with the angels!! I know the Prayer Song, in the translation you like, and I love it; but I didn’t realize that the Angels scene would be so beautiful. So sincere.

    Sometimes I think of things I have read that say that there are angels who sing God’s praises without ceasing. I wonder what that would sound like.

    This truly made my night more beautiful. I will remember the image of the angels at the end of the music, and it will be a comfort!

    I often have uplifting experiences when I watch the dance and other art videos you bring to my attention.

    Thanks! All the best for the Holidays, Merry Christmas to the Christian flock, and a Happy New Year to us all.

  5. One thing has long troubled me about the arts, whether visual, musical, or performance; the need to be NEW, to be different. I think this links to the Left’s general mindset. It cheapens and vulgarizes, but it is NEW.
    As I listen to my favorite Messiah recording, as I have for forty years, the LP replaced by a CD, I think it is damn hard to do better, more than 250 years later. Durable greatness of creation is incredibly rare. The disrepectful Left is not up to it, so they cheapen, parody, and tarnish in spiteful jealousy.

  6. Adelheid Wette

    read the teaching guide and note that it’s a feminist tale of a drunken abusive father and that both parts are played by girls making hansel a metrosexual and more buried in a huge amount of general technical stuff
    see
    A Postmodernist’s Hansel and Gretel

    The father, obviously noting my earlier contradiction that the family was happy without money and then almost immediately labeling them consumerists, gave into Capitalist influence and married a wealthy woman who dominated him and forced a passive role onto him, causing great gender confusion. Realizing that not only was she breaking female stereotype, she was also a stepmother and therefore evil, so she began to plot sweet Hansel and Gretel’s disappearance.

    it would pay to wake
    up and pay attention to what’s actually going on

    Never fear, sister!” said Hansel in a heroic fashion. “We must protect our old-fashioned, insular, misogynistic beliefs! When Stepmother invites us into the forest with her, I shall use the elements of the forest – a representation of nature and its rejection of materialism – to thwart her wretched plan. I shall drop stone by stone behind me as we walk, then when we are lost, we shall follow the trail of stones back home.”

    and

  7. And due to apple iPhone and such sucking wind here is where they write out the angels
    “Alas! Woe! We are lost!” cried Hansel and Gretel. “Once again, female intuitiveness has failed! So now in the challenge of the hero construct we must wander the forest – fatigued, vulnerable, deprived of all paternal figures for comfort and protection, and great, gnawing hunger (oddly, as we had only just scoffed down the entire contents of a picnic basket).” The siblings traipsed through the forest; bemoaning their misfortune and how surprisingly nature had turned against them when they smelled the greatest smell ever smelt by their intended audience. Sweets! Hansel and Gretel were revived and followed the scent, dashing through the trees until they reached a clearing. And in that clearing, luring the children like Capitalist propaganda, there was a most playful and marketable cottage built of gingerbread and assorted confectionery.

    Hansel and Gretel stared up at this symbol of an American Dream House with wide, shining eyes and even wider stomachs, and in that very moment they too strayed from the philanthropic path of protagonists and rejoiced in this great materialistic discovery. Uncaring that this house was an illustration of neglect in nutritional and moral values, they began to break off portions of the gingerbread and sweets and energetically eat. But a conventionally innocuous old woman wearing a black cape appeared at the front door, watching Hansel and Gretel greedily consume her property with a calm curiosity.

  8. Feminist Interpretation of Fairy Tales

    http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=3&ved=0CCMQFjAC&url=http%3A%2F%2Fuserpages.umbc.edu%2F~korenman%2Fwmst%2Ffairytale_more.html&ei=Dqn2TqTqDcbWrQfQirHRDw&usg=AFQjCNGgeSO6nWqtYxojKe_u2meqkgztWA

    and this feminist rewrite:
    We’ve all read the story about Hansel and Gretel as children. I, for one, was terrified by it. Mean stepmothers, dark forests, witches with massive ovens that want to cook and eat children?! Perhaps it is fitting, then, that Louise Murphy puts a clever spin on this fairy tale, and weaves it into a fictional and terrifying account of the survival of two Jewish children during the Holocaust.

    Go trolling the collectve as they are winning unopposed other than a few older women claiming they don’t represent them

    as if that has any meaning beyond their own ears

    this is a post modernist matriarchy get used to it
    they won
    though beating up people who loved u and wanted to do what u want was no real trick
    opposing the new masters
    that will be different as we all know how much women play a role on actual communist states or Islam!!
    They don’t
    and they will be surprised
    and will whine to be saved to people who aren’t there and generally don’t care
    and will not give them a voice but for show
    such is politics of despotism!!!!!!
    Enjoy ur beds

  9. This is vandalism-the director has to “express himself”,to show he is an”artist”at the expense of the work. What bothers me is that people passively accept this.

  10. @ Artfldgr:
    I had to stop reading when I hit this nonsense:

    “Opera, unlike almost all other art forms, was invented.”

    These people are in Red’s immortal words: Dumb-asses!

  11. And what did u contribute jdwel? Showing off a grade school level of math and what else?
    Anything about why? Who? Any kind of contribution of substance?

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