You can play a straightforward Shylock as sympathetic (though I wouldn't bother) and I would love to see an actual Jewish portrayal of that charming murderer Israel Rank. You can't do that with Fagin as written, because of the constant physical descriptions of him as monstrous and fanged and cackling. To humanize him, you have to create a totally new character, as the musical and Disney did- which I don't mind, that's a great character! If you just take out the Judaism, you get a horror movie monster in a realist work.
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I’m having a spirited debate and need a larger sample size
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redemption arcs that double as tragedies!! you're a better person than you've ever been and you have nothing left to your name!!you have to rebuild yourself and your life from the ground up and you're smiling in the ashes!! you were devastated your life is ruined!!! nothing is ever going to be the same ever again you are never going to regain what you had you are never going to be free of the guilt you are never going to be able to go home there is nothing left for you!!! you are free you are more yourself than you've ever been!! fires help forests grow!!
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Well her clothes are blacker than the blackest cloth
And her face is whiter than the snows of Hoth
She wears Dr. Martens and a heavy cross,
But on the inside she’s a Happy Goth.
(Song by The Divine Comedy)
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@ladykarloff look at this cute little guy (and all his buddies) i saw at universal studios today!
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yearning for the day when people stop creating annoying low-effort gimmick blogs
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We’ve been together 77 years, Daniel. Shall we let the math of that settle?
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yeah Romeo and Juliet suuucks they should’ve both survived at the end and lived happily ever after instead. but of course the writer kills them both off for shock value.
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Boris Karloff and Zita Johann in The Mummy (1932)
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i want that twink dealt with but not necessarily destroyed as i may have use for his conniving eunuch ways later
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new poll. are you going to marry a passionate antistratfordian who nonetheless loves the works, or someone who doesn't like shakespeare at all but understands he was real
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