Thank you for joining me for my 75th blog entry. I have a question for you. What is the obsession with redefining our iconic villains? What do you think? Is it just a quest from unoriginal writers scrapping for the next Wicked? Or have our ideas of right and wrong become ambiguous because of shows like the Sopranosor Orange is the New Black?
All I know is that we had a musical that made a ton of money exploring the lighter, animal-loving side of THE FLIPPIN' WICKED WITCH OF THE WEST. Then Disney got in the act with Maleficent. Today I watched Dracula Untold. In it good ol' Vlad the Impaler only drank the cursed blood of the damned because he was trying to be a good dad. Wow!
It's nothing new. I remember being a little kid and watching Escape from Alcatraz and wondering why we were rooting for the prisoners to escape. But if we keep going the way we are, we may actually haveSpringtime for Hitler. Much to Mel Brook's chagrin. In fact I know we will if it will make a ton of money. Look. There are five Twilights and counting.