I grew up with those MGM musicals, so I have an idea what I like from a musical. It helped to read a book about making musicals, however.
"Stephen Arthur Frears" is an English film director. Frears directed several critically acclaimed British feature films since the 1980s including My Beautiful Laundrette, Dangerous Liaisons, High Fidelity (film)/High Fidelity, The Queen (film)/The Queen, and Philomena (film)/Philomena.
More Stephen Frears on Wikipedia.These were women who did not make a habit of taking their clothes off in public before they began performing at the Windmill. I suppose we could view all of this as politically incorrect, but the truth is that what happened at the Windmill brought many people together as a means of escaping the tragedy that was surrounding them.
By putting a girl in there you immediately get a much more modern sensibility so you avoid making it a Victorian melodrama.
I've tried to draw a line between my films and identify the themes that keep returning, but I can't. I wish sometimes I could identify the type of films I do, but so far I have not. Whatever strikes me, is about as analytical as I can get.
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