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June 4, 2006
The Girl Who Feeds Me - Strange Plot Device from Another Planet
The Girl Who Feeds Me is a big fan of musicals. Lately, she's been buying collections of musicals on DVD and watching them.
Many musicals claim to be based upon real events, but often the facts are all bent out of shape in order to suit the needs of the plot. For example, in The Sound of Music the von Trapp family escapes over the mountains into Switzerland, when in fact they took a train to Italy and then emigrated to America by boat.
This is nothing, however, compared to the egregious errors in Yankee Doodle Dandy. The movie is supposed to be a biography of George M. Cohan, the real-life composer of such tunes as Over There and Give My Regards to Broadway. At one point in the film (this is just so unbelievable), Cohan is asked by the government to publicly promote American foreign policy and he agrees to do it.
I guess back in the Nineteen-Forties people would believe anything.
Respectfully submitted,
Ferdinand T. Cat
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