Miracle on 34th Street...
Dec. 13th, 2004 12:26 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
conuly
I really love this movie. It's progressive, y'know?
I mean, here it is, 1947, and Doris Walker is a single mom with a very respectable/important job at Macy's. She's not just a single mom, she's divorced. In 1947.
When Fred comes over, we see him helping out in the kitchen. Seriously. He's got an apron on, and he helps set the table. It's really questionable how much he was helping in that tiny kitchen, but there it is. Fred, apron, kitchen.
And not 20 years later, poor Samantha Stevens is being chewed out by her husband for not making a huge dinner in 10 minutes without magic.
I don't get it.
And I don't want to talk about the "remake". Bah. Humbug.
And, if you're curious, the Dutch song is here. That's not a translation, though. The real translation goes more like: Santa Claus, put something in my shoe, put something in my boot, thank you Santa Claus. Black Peter is, I'm told, the helper Santa has in Holland, so that's probably where "Saint Peter" comes from in their English.
I mean, here it is, 1947, and Doris Walker is a single mom with a very respectable/important job at Macy's. She's not just a single mom, she's divorced. In 1947.
When Fred comes over, we see him helping out in the kitchen. Seriously. He's got an apron on, and he helps set the table. It's really questionable how much he was helping in that tiny kitchen, but there it is. Fred, apron, kitchen.
And not 20 years later, poor Samantha Stevens is being chewed out by her husband for not making a huge dinner in 10 minutes without magic.
I don't get it.
And I don't want to talk about the "remake". Bah. Humbug.
And, if you're curious, the Dutch song is here. That's not a translation, though. The real translation goes more like: Santa Claus, put something in my shoe, put something in my boot, thank you Santa Claus. Black Peter is, I'm told, the helper Santa has in Holland, so that's probably where "Saint Peter" comes from in their English.
