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Ok, but this is an encyclopedia we are writing and hence it is not the forum for your complaints (or mine) about the movie. Koyaanis Qatsi, Sunday, July 14, 2002
I confused Gigi and My Fair Lady and so removed what I had written. My Fair Lady struck me as both sexist and classist and may be the one you are thinking about. Gigi simply bored me. I have no recollection whatsoever of the young woman being a prostitute--rather, I remember her as both stylish and subdued. You may be thinking of My Fair Lady, in which case she was a flower vendor, not a prostitute. Koyaanis Qatsi—Preceding undated comment added 10:00, 14 July 2002 (UTC)
Is "grande cocotte" really the best way to describe the intended profession of the main character in Gigi? Not everyone knows what the story was about, and an Altavista translation yields "large casserole". Per Wikipedia:State the obvious, can we find a better synonym? -- Metropolitan90 02:16, July 16, 2005 (UTC)
shouldn't "people who go by the name Gigi" be instead under a disambiguation page? 140.247.157.64 09:27, 21 November 2005 (UTC)
Having seen the film gigi i was surprised to read that gigi was being groomed for a career as a "grand cocotte". Not knowing what the term meant i followed the link to find an article entitled courtisan about upper class, educated, prostitutes (for lack of a better word. It is entirely possible that i romanticised Gigi's lessons with her aunt but i had always assumed they were simply a form of deportment. I also believe that had Gigi been groomed as a courtier she would not be so opposed to the idea of simply being with gaston. It seemed to me like she detested the idea of being with several men for financial support and as though she had always inteded to marry a man whome she loved. Have i completely missunderstood the film? I hope not Gigi as a grande cocotte seems entirely to crass —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.221.63.93 ( talk)
This article was automatically assessed because at least one article was rated and this bot brought all the other ratings up to at least that level. BetacommandBot 03:33, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
I think that Gigi should be moved to Gigi (novel) and Gigi be the disambiguation page. This is a relatively common given name, while most of the works are related to the book, there are two notable contemporary artists who are known simply as "Gigi" (D'Agostino and Shibabaw). I'm not sure that there's a strong case that the novel is "the most important Gigi". - BalthCat ( talk) 09:52, 22 June 2010 (UTC)
The article says, "A 1958 musical film version, starring Leslie Caron in the title role, with a screenplay by Alan Jay Lerner and a score by Lerner and Frederick Loewe won the Academy Award for Best Picture. Lerner and Loewe adapted the film for an expurgated 1973 stage musical that proved to be unsuccessful ...." Why would the stage musical have needed to be expurgated? The 1958 film had been made when film censorship was still in effect in the U.S. and had been subject to the Motion Picture Production Code, and when the film rating system was established, the film eventually received a G rating. Meanwhile, by 1973 there was no noticeable censorship on the Broadway stage. Any content that had been acceptable on film in 1958 would surely have been allowed on stage in 1973, or for that matter in 1958 since the American theatre was less censored than American film at that time. Hence, I doubt that the term "expurgated" should be applied to the 1973 stage musical. (I have no idea whether either the film or stage musical was expurgated compared to the novella by Colette, but that's a separate matter.) -- Metropolitan90 (talk) 07:39, 22 December 2018 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: moved ( closed by non-admin page mover) SITH (talk) 18:38, 22 March 2019 (UTC)
– As already noted nearly nine years ago at section header "DAB swap" above, Colette's novella would hardly be the WP:PRIMARYTOPIC in the English-speaking world. If any of the links were to be primary, it would be the 1958 Best Picture Oscar winner. However, since the Gigi (disambiguation) page lists 37 entries, its main title header should appear as simply Gigi. — Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 22:10, 25 February 2019 (UTC) --Relisting. Xain36 { talk} 02:49, 5 March 2019 (UTC)--Relisting. B dash ( talk) 13:50, 14 March 2019 (UTC)
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, establishes that it is all right to be a dirty old man as long as
Ok, but this is an encyclopedia we are writing and hence it is not the forum for your complaints (or mine) about the movie. Koyaanis Qatsi, Sunday, July 14, 2002
I confused Gigi and My Fair Lady and so removed what I had written. My Fair Lady struck me as both sexist and classist and may be the one you are thinking about. Gigi simply bored me. I have no recollection whatsoever of the young woman being a prostitute--rather, I remember her as both stylish and subdued. You may be thinking of My Fair Lady, in which case she was a flower vendor, not a prostitute. Koyaanis Qatsi—Preceding undated comment added 10:00, 14 July 2002 (UTC)
Is "grande cocotte" really the best way to describe the intended profession of the main character in Gigi? Not everyone knows what the story was about, and an Altavista translation yields "large casserole". Per Wikipedia:State the obvious, can we find a better synonym? -- Metropolitan90 02:16, July 16, 2005 (UTC)
shouldn't "people who go by the name Gigi" be instead under a disambiguation page? 140.247.157.64 09:27, 21 November 2005 (UTC)
Having seen the film gigi i was surprised to read that gigi was being groomed for a career as a "grand cocotte". Not knowing what the term meant i followed the link to find an article entitled courtisan about upper class, educated, prostitutes (for lack of a better word. It is entirely possible that i romanticised Gigi's lessons with her aunt but i had always assumed they were simply a form of deportment. I also believe that had Gigi been groomed as a courtier she would not be so opposed to the idea of simply being with gaston. It seemed to me like she detested the idea of being with several men for financial support and as though she had always inteded to marry a man whome she loved. Have i completely missunderstood the film? I hope not Gigi as a grande cocotte seems entirely to crass —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.221.63.93 ( talk)
This article was automatically assessed because at least one article was rated and this bot brought all the other ratings up to at least that level. BetacommandBot 03:33, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
I think that Gigi should be moved to Gigi (novel) and Gigi be the disambiguation page. This is a relatively common given name, while most of the works are related to the book, there are two notable contemporary artists who are known simply as "Gigi" (D'Agostino and Shibabaw). I'm not sure that there's a strong case that the novel is "the most important Gigi". - BalthCat ( talk) 09:52, 22 June 2010 (UTC)
The article says, "A 1958 musical film version, starring Leslie Caron in the title role, with a screenplay by Alan Jay Lerner and a score by Lerner and Frederick Loewe won the Academy Award for Best Picture. Lerner and Loewe adapted the film for an expurgated 1973 stage musical that proved to be unsuccessful ...." Why would the stage musical have needed to be expurgated? The 1958 film had been made when film censorship was still in effect in the U.S. and had been subject to the Motion Picture Production Code, and when the film rating system was established, the film eventually received a G rating. Meanwhile, by 1973 there was no noticeable censorship on the Broadway stage. Any content that had been acceptable on film in 1958 would surely have been allowed on stage in 1973, or for that matter in 1958 since the American theatre was less censored than American film at that time. Hence, I doubt that the term "expurgated" should be applied to the 1973 stage musical. (I have no idea whether either the film or stage musical was expurgated compared to the novella by Colette, but that's a separate matter.) -- Metropolitan90 (talk) 07:39, 22 December 2018 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: moved ( closed by non-admin page mover) SITH (talk) 18:38, 22 March 2019 (UTC)
– As already noted nearly nine years ago at section header "DAB swap" above, Colette's novella would hardly be the WP:PRIMARYTOPIC in the English-speaking world. If any of the links were to be primary, it would be the 1958 Best Picture Oscar winner. However, since the Gigi (disambiguation) page lists 37 entries, its main title header should appear as simply Gigi. — Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 22:10, 25 February 2019 (UTC) --Relisting. Xain36 { talk} 02:49, 5 March 2019 (UTC)--Relisting. B dash ( talk) 13:50, 14 March 2019 (UTC)