Thursday, February 11, 2010

Should life be a musical?

Myself and @ramblerclive had an amusing conversation on facebook a few years ago. This is how it went:

Simon Willo see? life should be a musical. then everything ALWAYS has a happy ending :)

Clive Rambler except Carousel

Simon Willo oh so there's an exception or two...

Clive Rambler yep... you seen carousel... her husband kills himself in the end and then they all sing"You'll never Walk Alone"... Lovely stuff
Can you tell I'm still in my pit of depression?

Simon Willo hmmmm... and in Moulin Rouge Nicole Kidman dies too...
Ok so maybe musicals wasn't such a great theme...

Clive Rambler Yes.. she dies while he sings "Come What May"
And in Grease Sandy starts smoking at the end so she'll probably die too...

Simon Willo And in the Sound of Music they still have to leave their home and move to Switzerland which is a really expensive country and they have no income because Captain von Trapp lost his job and Maria doesn't exactly have much work experience. So they will be homeless...

Clive Rambler Exactly... so they'll probably die...
And Evita dies...

Yes, Simon... why can't life be a musical?

Simon Willo In Jesus Christ Superstar he was crucified!
OMG what have I done?

Clive Rambler yes... he died too... but apparently he came back to life ... like the girl in Rent... so maybe all is not lost...

Simon Willo ok so maybe musicals aren't a good analogy for life.
let me think up another tactic... that one failed miserably.

Clive Rambler It was fun!

Simon Willo just to point out... Christine and Raul still hooked up at the end of Phantom, so they were happy, and Joseph's whole family got to move to Egypt and eat as much as they wanted during the 7 years of famine... so they were happy too...

Clive Rambler Yah, but she hooked up with a dude witha deformed face and with the way he sings he's probably gay... and lets not forget that Joseph's family first starved and the dad thought Joseph was dead. So he was depressed and malnourished. Eating probably made him die sooner... and Joseph wore make-up after meeting the Egyptians. Fag.

Simon Willo so there is nothing wrong with a couple of homos... musicals were designed around us. Joseph looked much hotter with make-up btw... Joseph's family had a bad run but still had a happy ending. At least his dad died with a full tummy and was happy knowing his son was alive.

There is no way Phantom was gay. He would ...never have looked like that if he was. He would have turned to plastic surgery sooner and wouldn't wear black all the time.

6 comments:

6000 said...

Oh my, I did giggle.

Rambler said...

did we ever work back then Simon?

jacki janse van rensburg said...

oh man! that is sooo deep!

what about mamma mia? that was all happy and dancing and singing. and everybody fell in love in the end, even the gay guy.

dorothy said...

i love musicals. i LOVE them. except mamma mia. which i hated the whole 10 minutes i managed to watch into it. my favourite is high society. and easter parade. though i shouldn't like it so much. and meet me in st louis. but then i've developed a little soft spot for judy.
JCS was totally awesome.
as if i didnt like you enough simon...

Fran said...

Lol I really cracked myself for this one.

Juz said...

Ha ha ha!