There has been a lot of commentary in the last couple of days due to the Imus flap and the coarsening of culture. But like many things that we notice today the roots go back much farther then just modern times.
For example the play turned book by Baroness Emmuska Orczy called the The Scarlet Pimpernel. Now I don’t recall if the Scarlet Pimpernel drove between England and France in pre-Chunnel times in a pink Cadillac accentuated with fur rescuing French Aristocrats, but introducing a hero who was a Pimpernel regardless of the color is hardly appropriat. I hear that a new movie remake will have the possible academy nominated song. "It’s hard out here for a Pimpernel."
Long before there was Rap music there was the Hoedown.
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Doing my best the Cheat:
meh??
“The Scarlet Pimpernel” was by favorite non-Biblical hero, growing up. I still think the book, and all the sequels I got my hands on, were super. They are great stories to read aloud to older children, too.
And Chauvelin was the classic sinister “bad guy”…
The problem today is that the Pimpernel’s disguise would be seen as his heroic persona, and new versions of the story may not know what to do with that. Unless maybe the Pimpernel were to be a hero disguised as a conservative, or a CATHOLIC!:)Then the world could say “See, kids, never judge a book by its cover. Even a Catholic might be a good guy beneath his righteous demeanor.” 🙁
Hoedown, ho-down….oh dear.
No Pimpernelling Zone ahead! Exert caution!
As I recall…the SP was a bit of a matchmaker in the first book – very wicked, he!
Delta