"Sound of Music" got edited or banned in my CA community..Nazi imagery

[Demovictory9]

No link..reading story in my local paper.. Parent objected to Nazi in the play. The school district edited out nazi stuff. So i guess its just a play about singing now.


.planning editing. Or banning other plays even at.high school level because of parental objections


Other plays are contentious now that parents are emboldened to object

[bucolic_frolic]

1. Find something to object to. Have at it.

"Somewhere over a rainbow" would seem ripe for banning in this climate. Reagan and the Chimpanzees too, "Bedtime for Bonzo".

[riversedge]

2. geez-the theme of the story was how Nazi were taking over Austria and the Captian

had to get his family over the mts to Switz. what is left--the romance--so Maria --can not marry the Captain??

gods!!

[OldBaldy1701E]

5. Which is their chief complaint.

We can't have people escaping the regime and showing how corrupt it is. We can't have someone removing several good workers either. Time to change the script to show that Von Trapp was actually a good Nazi but just went along with his 'woke' friend to keep the liberals from taking his kids before they could pledge themselves to the one true power.

(This is only the beginning. They will try to censure anything and everything they don't like. And, they don't like anything other than Camazotz.)

[whathehell]

3. What in God's name was their reasoning?

That including it would encourage prejudice against Nazis?

[Demovictory9]

8. Will seek out more info

[whathehell]

12. Ok, thanks. n/t

[sinkingfeeling]

4. Oh, for the love of gawd. Let's just wipe out history completely. Why should children

learn about an evil, fascist, warmongering regime?

[JanMichael]

6. This is the opposite of the anti CTE crew?

Both need to be tossed off a boat

[Demovictory9]

7. Not sure..could be parent against showing whites in negative light

Or parent against nazis

[Celerity]

26. CTE?

[JanMichael]

29. CRT I think I may have a TBI

[Wounded Bear]

9. Maybe we need to write more stories without bad guys...

kind of a boring world, eh?

[Celerity]

10. Is it this? Nazi Images and 6th Graders (Fullerton Observer)

https://fullertonobserver.com/2023/06/01/nazi-images-and-6th-graders/

“Let’s Start at the Very Beginning” – Do-Re-Mi from The Sound of Music

As a Jew and lover of musicals living and studying in Vienna, Austria, in the 60s, I was interested in seeing The Sound of Music dubbed into German. When they sang “Climb Every Mountain,” the audience, living in an Alpine country, understandably laughed. It would be like hearing in Fullerton a song celebrating “Drive Every Freeway.” However, when Uncle Max, in anger and disgust, tore down the Nazi flag with its swastika, the whole audience gasped. They were still living under the shadow of Nazi-induced fear and hatred. Without that flag, without Max’s rebellion, the driving force of the story is lost.

The Sound of Music is, on its surface, a sweet love story about a Catholic Novitiate falling in love with a Baron and his children. However, its subplot is about the oldest daughter falling in love with a seemingly nice young man who reveals that he has joined the Nazi cause.

Underlying the plot, beneath its sugary and romantic surface is the seduction of good people by an ideology of hate and violence. The story is about this family standing against the Nazis and having to flee for their lives to Switzerland. Cutting out the reality of Naziism and its symbols renders this story meaningless. Replacing the rightly hated swastika with a rainbow or unicorn, or as in Europe today, an abstract lightning bolt, is to tell a lie. But it’s complicated.

If you are going to do The Sound of Music, cleaning it up is to change its meaning, but not cleaning it up can cause pain to people in the community and confuse 6th graders who may be dressed in brownshirts with swastikas and have to say “Heil Hitler.” Can they understand the hatred at the core of the symbols, and can such understanding lead to compassion and empathy for all who are hated, oppressed, and marginalized? Is this a teachable moment? I don’t know.

snip

[Demovictory9]

13. Yes..thats my source paper but didderent article or letter describes the patental issue

[Hekate]

15. It is a teachable moment that has been lost

[Crunchy Frog]

24. I watched that movie on a regular basis since I was a young kid,

and I was never "confused" by it.

What a load of hogwash.

[msongs]

11. so did they ban xtian imagery too? that's got a bigger death list than nazis nt

[allegorical oracle]

14. Yeah, and Snow White was really grooming those seven dwarfs, not to mention co-habitating

without benefit of marriage.

[Dr. Strange]

16. That seems disturbing...

considering Snow White's age is like 14.

[Bucky]

18. Ugh, horrible. It's good that they cast young adults and even age up the characters, but...

I think Disney movies ought to start having princesses be at least out of college and well along into their established careers before hooking up with future prince charmings. There's no reason why they can't have a mid-40s single mom as the next Disney Princess.

[CTyankee]

20. Since dwarfism is a medical term, this is not OK.

[Bucky]

17. The Von Trapp family runs away from what now?

Hunter Biden's lap top?

[sarcasmo]

28. The Von Trapp family are running away from Macedonians.

[dembotoz]

19. can we call the passion play a snuff film and ban that too?

[BlackSkimmer]

21. How is there no link?

Can you tell us the name of the paper?

[kskiska]

22. What will the do with The Diary of Anne Frank?

[Demovictory9]

23. Make it a story about camping in an attic

[Initech]

27. Unfucking believable.

This country has lost its' damn mind.

[FakeNoose]

30. This movie is seen - and loved - all over Germany and Austria

If they don't object to how the Nozis are depicted (truthfully) how can you community have a problem with it?