My personal experience of watching the film is not so vivid. However, I would most likely take the film as a fantasy movie, which I would not be familiar with. However, Salman Rushdie said:
“In India, however, it[the Wizard of Oz] fitted into what was then, and remains today, one of the mainstreams of “Bollywood” film production.” (Rushdie 11)
He remembered his experience of the film. He said “In the West, the film was an oddball” but it was taken well in India where cinema of the fantastic is familiar. He would watch the video of ‘Kids in India singing a song from the Wizard of Oz’ and say the kids are likely to accept the film well than kids in other countries because the film “fitted into” the Bollywood film production.
"This absence of higher values greatly increases the film's charm, and is an important aspect of its success in creating a world in which nothing is deemed more important than the loves, cares and needs of human beings..." (Rushdie 10).
The kids are surely being supervised by a “higher value”, most likely their teacher. However, the presence of the “higher value” is not seen in the movie. It seems like the kids truly enjoy singing and acting the scene. Unlike the world of adults where actors are controlled and directed by a higher value, a director, the kids are simply having fun, showing their enjoyment while doing their parts, singing and dancing.
“We are all the stars’ doubles” (Rushdie 46)
Reinforcing this quote of his, Rushdie would point out that the kids are “doubles” of the stars in the film. They are simply mimicking the stars. As an audience, we become their doubles by putting ourselves into their positions and feeling what stars would feel. As actors and singers like the kids in the video, we are recreating the stars performance simply as their doubles.
No comments:
Post a Comment