Hair- The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical by Gerome Ragni, James Rado and Michael Weller, direceted by glorious Milos Forman – another note on this is here http://realini.blogspot.com/2017/05/note-on-hair-directed-by-milos-forman.html - 8 out of 10

 

Hair- The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical  by Gerome Ragni, James Rado and Michael Weller, direceted by glorious Milos Forman – another note on this is here http://realini.blogspot.com/2017/05/note-on-hair-directed-by-milos-forman.html

8 out of 10

 

To Summerize my take, it is looking at Flower Power Versus Idiot Power, The Days of the Hippies against the Time of the ‚very stable genius’ and his MAGA crowd

 

Milos Forman was one of the greatest film makers the world has ever seen, he blessed audiences with a few masteprieces, one of them is Amadeus http://realini.blogspot.com/2023/07/amadeus.html such a stupendous biopic that we can forget the (minor) criticism

 

We always have artistic licence, evidently, nobody knows what Mozart talked with his wife, father, or Salieri, then the latter seems to have had no role in the death of the great composer (Amadeus, Salieri was a celebrated in his age, but modest one) but for the tension, the success of the plot, it made sense to have him as the pure villain

Let us have the spoiler alert here, because i see that i am already off from the topic and intend to move even further (for the time being, maybe i will return to...what was it, oh, yes, Hair) and the message might be ‚do not read this’, you are much better off elsewhere, there is so much worthy writing in books, and less on the net

 

What came to mind, after mentioning that Milos Forman enetered the history of cineam with Amadeus, among others, was the fact that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is a ‚case study’ in the magnificent Outliers http://realini.blogspot.com/2013/05/outliers-by-malcolm-gladwell.html by Malcolm Gladwell

The luminary is one of the most influential (maybe at number one, tied with Daniel Kahneman, winner of the Nobel Prize for...Economics) psychologists, and he argues in his book that with ten thousand hours of exercise, practise, over ten years, which translates into at least three hours of intense work every day, you could rise to the top (Insha’Allah, and other factors being met) of your domain.

 

Thus, Malcolm Gladwell looked at Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (The Beatles, Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and many others) and saw that if the composer had started at a very tender age, as his father took him on tours, making music, but the compositions from childhood might be the creation of his father (Leopold was the name, or maybe i am making this up) and are anyway not valuable nowadays, excpet for historical reasons

What orchestras around the world are playing is from the time when Mozart was over twenty, so in the scheme proposed by Malcolm Gladwell he was a ‚late bloomer’,  it took him about two decades, not one, to reach that elusive top – incidentally, i have started putting dwon these notes in the hope that with a lot of practice (and look, I am number two in my realm, in terms of sheer volume only) i will become (much) better...

 

Now, let us try for a line or two to get back to Hair, which was not excessively fabulous, but it is a landmark and prompted me to think about how things have changed, from the Age of the Hippy, Flower Power, Make Love Not War and the rest of it, to Woke, Cancel Culture, and why not, the era of Trump and Idiot Power

Alas, i was born into a communist regime (and you get at the end the link and the pompous showing off of my role in the revolution that killed Ceausescu and changed – sort of – that awful sytem with something else...you see, i do not take every chance to veer off, it is very tempting to go on and explain about the fuckers that took power, after the death of the old tyrant, but i restarin myself) thus missing on Flower Power

 

Eventually, i would have my chances, but just like in the joke we had, it was delayed – the summary of the blague is that when the end of theworld will come, first Bezos and repellant Musk will blast off into their space ships, the American and Chinese leaders will talk about leaving the planet and at the same time, eteranl Ceausescu will say ‚do not worry, we are at least one hundred years behind’- perhaps for a bigger bang- i would have the chance to be the lover of (the first) Miss Our Country, if only for about eight months

The time of Hair was one of freedom, liberation, and we could say that this happens with women more now – also with the multitude of genders we apparently, or evidently have in our midst – in thsi sense, the reading of The 2019 Co-Winner of the Booker Prize, Girl, Woman, Other http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/06/girl-woman-other-by-bernardine-evaristo.html by Bernardine Evaristo can be illuminating

 

The author explains how ‚gender is one of the biggest lies of our civilization’ and then we have two spirits, non gender and the notion that gender is actually fluid, it changes from one minute to the next, which is obviously chalnged, if this is maybe something hard (almost impossible) for retrograde people like yours truly (sixty is the new forty, but still) the violence with which the MAGA mobs attack the idea is proof of their thickness

Humanity has moved, progressed on many fronts, but if we compare the Flower Power with the Trump crowds (more that sevnty million have voted fro him last time, and abhorent as this is, it looks as if the same or more will take him up next year) in my view, the world has decayed in the emantime, if so many fools embarce these ‚values’, and it is not just Trump – cretins are not that rare, it is a ctastrophe when an especially proud pythecanthrop becomes the role model for multitudes- the list of vile creatures is long, Putin, HAMAS, Xi, Lula and Bolsanaro, let us just stop here...

 

 

Now for a question, and invitation – maybe you have a good idea on how we could make more than a million dollars with this http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/02/unique-in-world.html?q=unique+in+the+world  – as it is, this is a unique technique, which we could promote, sell, open the Oscars show with or something and then make lots of money together, if you have the how, I have the product, I just do not know how to get the befits from it, other than the exercise per se

 

As for my role in the Revolution that killed Ceausescu, a smaller Mao, there it is http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/03/realini-in-newsweek-participant-in.html

 

From To The Heritage:

‘Fiction is infinitely preferable to real life...As long as you avoid the books of Kafka or Beckett, the everlasting plot of fiction has fewer futile experiences than the careless plot of reality...Fiction's people are fuller, deeper, cleverer, more moving than those in real life…Its actions are more intricate, illuminating, noble, profound…There are many more dramas, climaxes, romantic fulfillment, twists, turns, gratified resolutions…Unlike reality, all of this you can experience without leaving the house or even getting out of bed…What's more, books are a form of intelligent human greatness, as stories are a higher order of sense…As random life is to destiny, so stories are to great authors, who provided us with some of the highest pleasures and the most wonderful mystifications we can find…Few stories are greater than Anna Karenina, that wise epic by an often foolish author…’

‚parturiunt montes, nascetur ridiculus mus’

“the Meaning of Life...Well, it's nothing very special. Try and be nice to people, avoid eating fat, read a good book every now and then, get some walking in, and try and live together in peace and harmony with people of all creeds and nations.”