Hi list
Same argument about straight actors playing gay or lesbian roles. There
seems to be a fine line between representation and parody and between
'staged' sympathy and actual sympathy. I wonder if anyone has any comments
about the Iranian film the name of which eludes me but has something to do
with drunk horses. I haven't seen it yet but it is semi-documentary in that
the characters are not played by actors. There is a boy with a disability
who plays a boy with a disability which apparently, from what I hear, shows
some of the very real pain that the boy experiences. That is, the things
you see are actual - not contrived. What sort of impact does this have on
its audience?
At 06:54 AM 4/09/2001 +1000, you wrote:
>And now it seems, Toulouse Lautrec is back in the news in Moulin Rouge -
>the musical. This time the stunted genius is played by the non-disabled
>though slightly built John Leguizamo, who accentuates our herošs lisp
>possibly to underline his disabled status. In the original 50s version TL's
>role was taken by Jose Farrer who stumped around painfully on his knees,
>his feet tied to the back of his thighs. Therešs not so much obvious
>disability in the remake though, and the playing of a disabled artist by an
>able-bodied actor is bound reopen the debate about whether disabled actors
>should be employed to play disabled parts. What do list members think?
>
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