Yesterday my lady-friend and I attended the musical on stage called "The Full Monty" which is a rough adaptation of the British movie of the same name, but the movie is not a musical. The American musical version is set in Buffalo New York but the British version was set in Manchester England I believe.
Both the movie and the musical deals with the fact of laborers out of work trying to gain back their freeling of self-worth even though they are unemployed, and also trying to devise a way to raise some cash to pay their outstanding bills that have piled up.
These men get the idea of selling tickets to their planned stage performance akin to the Chipendale men's performance of taking off their clothes while dancing. "The full monty" is an English term for "complete nudity". Incidentally, there is ample skin showing both in the movie as well as the play/musical but never shows complete frontal nudity as they place their hat over their genitals.
As I remember the movie, it is not rebald, or vulgar, but the play/musical is vulgar with grinds and bumps like old burlesque, plus juvenile joking about taking off one's clothes.
A true nudist would be annoyed at such an attitude about taking off clothing and becoming nude. I did not find that the problem of removing one's clothings was funny like the rest in the audience did. I also felt that not whole-heartedly accepting and honoring the nude form was objectionable, and presenting the body in a vulgar way with "grinds and bumps" lacked true high-value and celebration of the nude body, and some may say "holy" nude form.
The movie was good, but the vulgar musical I did not care for. Has anyone seen the musical, and if so, do you disagree with this assesment of this comedy/musical?
Both the movie and the musical deals with the fact of laborers out of work trying to gain back their freeling of self-worth even though they are unemployed, and also trying to devise a way to raise some cash to pay their outstanding bills that have piled up.
These men get the idea of selling tickets to their planned stage performance akin to the Chipendale men's performance of taking off their clothes while dancing. "The full monty" is an English term for "complete nudity". Incidentally, there is ample skin showing both in the movie as well as the play/musical but never shows complete frontal nudity as they place their hat over their genitals.
As I remember the movie, it is not rebald, or vulgar, but the play/musical is vulgar with grinds and bumps like old burlesque, plus juvenile joking about taking off one's clothes.
A true nudist would be annoyed at such an attitude about taking off clothing and becoming nude. I did not find that the problem of removing one's clothings was funny like the rest in the audience did. I also felt that not whole-heartedly accepting and honoring the nude form was objectionable, and presenting the body in a vulgar way with "grinds and bumps" lacked true high-value and celebration of the nude body, and some may say "holy" nude form.
The movie was good, but the vulgar musical I did not care for. Has anyone seen the musical, and if so, do you disagree with this assesment of this comedy/musical?
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