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03-29-2018 09:30 AM
@Isobel Archerwrote:
@sidsmomwrote:For what it’s worth, maybe this is where they got the idea.
’Friends’ referenced the movie/idea a couple times,
especially in my favorite episode when Phoebe decides to
have her brother’s baby.
SCENE: Central Perk.
[Rachel, Monica, and Phoebe are on the couch.
Phoebe is holding the puppy.]
Phoebe: My mom's going to be here any minute. I can't do this, I can't give him up.
Rachel: [sadly] Oh.
Phoebe: Yes, no, I can. I don't want to. But I can. No.
Rachel: [looking away] Oh, I can't watch this. It's like "Sophie's Choice."
Monica: You know, I never saw that.
Rachel: Oh, it was only okay.
And I guess this got a pass - or people even thought it was funny? (Clearly the writer and actors did). Wow.
And another culturally iconic series, “Seinfeld” had episodes about
-a soup vendor called ‘The Soup Nazi’
-Jerry (main charater) making out w/ his GF at ‘Schindler’s List’
-Mel Brooks...countless movies incorporating WWII references, and
-“Hogan’s Hero’s“...the entire sit-com based on POW humor, etc.
Just like “Sophie’s Choice”, all these movies/books/sit-coms are fiction.
People are capable of separating fact from fiction. If one can’t,
and outrage ensues, I feel that emotion discounts the actual event.
03-29-2018 10:24 AM
I'm sorry but though "Sophie's Choice" is a story of fiction it was depicted in such a way that you KNOW people actually went through that and worse (if possible) during this dark time in history.
Can you imagine being a mother of two young children and having to choose between which of your two should live and the other be sent to a gas chamber by a sadistic official to die?!!!!...and if you don't choose quickly then both will be murdered.
NO ...This phrase will NEVER be acceptable to me!! Too many of us have had relatives murdered during this time which really wasn't all so long ago.
03-29-2018 01:20 PM
@sol_lunawrote:
@suzyQ3wrote:I recently heard a host on one of the shopping channels use the phrase "Sophie's Choice" in reference to how difficult it is to decide on a color of an item.
Thoughts?
It's "Sophie's", NOT "Sophia's". Just sayin!!!
Thanks for catching that, @sol_luna. I'll see whether I can edit it.
03-29-2018 02:23 PM
The host should simply be informed that this phrase is in bad taste.
03-29-2018 02:31 PM
@Regal Beewrote:The host should simply be informed that this phrase is in bad taste.
@Regal Bee Too bad the host didn't know this, says something about the host.
03-29-2018 04:09 PM
My guess is the host didn't have a clue what she was talking about.
It's unfortunate that so many people in this country, and others, are so ill-informed about the Holocaust... in fact much of history.
I totally understand the gut wrenching reaction to someone saying something so incredibly stupid.
03-29-2018 06:18 PM
I think it's extremely bad taste. Someone who says that is totally unaware of the horrific nature of the root of that comment.
03-29-2018 06:20 PM
@haddon9wrote:I'm sorry but though "Sophie's Choice" is a story of fiction it was depicted in such a way that you KNOW people actually went through that and worse (if possible) during this dark time in history.
Can you imagine being a mother of two young children and having to choose between which of your two should live and the other be sent to a gas chamber by a sadistic official to die?!!!!...and if you don't choose quickly then both will be murdered.
NO ...This phrase will NEVER be acceptable to me!! Too many of us have had relatives murdered during this time which really wasn't all so long ago.
Well said!
1000% agree.
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