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GUYS WAIT I JUST REALIZED SOMETHING
THE THREE MUSKATEERS ARE LITERALLY SINGING ABOUT THEIR LOVE EXPERIENCES AT FIRST
J: Life has just begun Jack has found his Jill; Don't know what you've done But I'm all a-thrill
Jerry has never really felt romantic love before, because he's never really had any time between art and eventually fighting. Now that he sees what love is, he just can't imagine a life without it, choosing to embrace his love for this woman. He clearly cares about Lise, romantically, the most of the three muskateers, which is rarely questioned.
A: How can words express Your divine appeal? You can never guess All the love I feel
Notice Adam's use of the word divine. Although he does love Lise, he particularly loves her less for herself and more as a muse, because she's such an amazing dancer who can really portray her feelings. Once again, Adam, I think, genuinely did love Lise in the beginning, but he didn't really understand Lise. He mostly sees her as something godlike, and he sees love as something that is completely out of the picture. This is in contrast to Jerry, who originally saw love as out of the picture and then truly sees a chance for him.
H: From now on, lady, I insist For me no other girls exist
It is not debated that Henri is gay, especially in the fandom, so I think the line "No other girls exist" is quite literal. He probably also feels like Lise is the first person he was ever in love with, but he never really was. The reason why no other girls existed in his life is because he was never into girls in the first place, and he's known Lise for a while, so she's the only girl he could remotely ever see himself with. He believes himself to have a chance at love, like Jerry, but he's looking in the wrong places.
Can you see what I'm saying when I say how brilliant this show is? It frustrates me so much when someone says that it's a cash grab, because the show understood why the movie is good and made it even better. It's hard to dislike any of these amazing, complex, and interesting characters. All of them have flaws, which all stem from them having little experience with love, and they cope with these new feelings in different, relatively unhealthy ways. But, in the end, AAIP is about the beauty of love, in any form (Hell, even a mother's bond with her son!), no matter how conventional or unconventional it may be.
And, anyways, they're all so right. Lise is s'wonderful.
#an american in paris#jerry mulligan#adam hochberg#henri baurel#lise dassan#s'wonderful#george gershwin#ira gershwin
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OH MY GOD YOU’RE RIGHT
another thing i realized––in the garden, when lise calls jerry foolish for wanting to be with her instead of milo, she's projecting. her engagement to henri itself is a marriage of not just convenience, but survival. she has no other home, no other family, and the outside is still not completely safe for her as a jewish woman even with the war over. she cannot take risks, so why venture out into a world where there is no guarantee she will survive, much less thrive? so she'll marry into the family that has already proven that they will take care of her, for maximum security. she is so traumatized that she can't fathom picking someone with no real wealth over a literal heiress who can ensure success.
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Someone please write an AAIP fanfiction where Henri is sad that he legally cannot get married so Jerry, Lise and Milo say F that and they create a wedding for Henri and Adam and Adam proposes to Henri and he's like "Btw, the wedding's tomorrow. Get your suit". AND BOTH OF THEM ARE CRYING SAYING THEIR VOWS BECAUSE GOD THEY LOVE EACH OTHER AND THEY LOVE JERRY AND LISE AND MILO FOR DOING THIS AND AAAAAAAA AHKLDJ IAOUPFARIHJKLAKRF
Because I WOULD WRITE THIS, if I have time.
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Can anyone send me the American in Paris proshot from 2018? I just realized how good that musical is and I'm really desperate.
#an american in paris#broadway#bootlegs#proshots#jerry mulligan#lise dassan#henri baurel#adam hocheberg#milo davenport#musicals#musical#theater
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Six Times Lise Has Said "I Love You", Recently - A_Billion_Sorrys_918 - An American in Paris - Gershwin/Lucas [Archive of Our Own]
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Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful, beautiful boy - A_Billion_Sorrys_918 - An American in Paris - Gershwin/Lucas [Archive of Our Own]
AAIP fandom? You alive?
#an american in paris#madame baurel#henri baurel#adam hocheberg#milo davenport#jerry mulligan#lise dassan
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