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* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Music/BobbyDarrin's cover of Mack the Knife projects this. Within the play, it's only true of Polly Peachum, the other girls were prostitutes who presumably didn't have a choice in the matter. In her "Barbara Song", Polly Peachum describes how she virtuously turned down all the respectable men who asked for her maidenhead...until a man showed up who was neither respectable nor bothered asking....
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* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Music/BobbyDarrin's Music/BobbyDarin's cover of Mack the Knife projects this. Within the play, it's only true of Polly Peachum, the other girls were prostitutes who presumably didn't have a choice in the matter. In her "Barbara Song", Polly Peachum describes how she virtuously turned down all the respectable men who asked for her maidenhead...until a man showed up who was neither respectable nor bothered asking....
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trope merge with Recruiters Always Lie
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* JoinTheArmyTheySaid: "The Cannon Song" evokes this. John, Jim and George are three friends who sign up for the CallToAdventure. They end up committing atrocities against people in colonial outposts and eventually end up as {{Shell Shocked Veteran}}s, disgraced for being deserters or in the case of George, shot for looting:
--> '''Macheath''':'' [[IgnoredEpiphany But young men's blood goes on being red]]''\\
'''Tiger Brown''': ''And the army goes ahead recruiting.''
--> '''Macheath''':'' [[IgnoredEpiphany But young men's blood goes on being red]]''\\
'''Tiger Brown''': ''And the army goes ahead recruiting.''
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* RecruitersAlwaysLie: "The Cannon Song" evokes this. John, Jim and George are three friends who sign up for the CallToAdventure. They end up committing atrocities against people in colonial outposts and eventually end up as {{Shell Shocked Veteran}}s, disgraced for being deserters or in the case of George, shot for looting:
--> '''Macheath''':'' [[IgnoredEpiphany But young men's blood goes on being red]]''\\
'''Tiger Brown''': ''And the army goes ahead recruiting.''
--> '''Macheath''':'' [[IgnoredEpiphany But young men's blood goes on being red]]''\\
'''Tiger Brown''': ''And the army goes ahead recruiting.''
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Brecht did not deliberately get actors to perform badly, just differently from the way conventional theatre did. So this trope doesn't apply.
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* StylisticSuck: This was a device deliberately used in a lot of Brecht's work to achieve the proper "alienating" effect on the audience, and among other things, he wanted the music discordant and the cast to sing off-key.
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Dewicked trope
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* KnifeNut: Macheath.
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flows so much better
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* StrawNihilist: Mr. Peachum. It's not that he's a miser -- he simply doesn't believe that money or ''anything'' can save him, so he may as well make the best of what little money he's got. It's not that he doesn't like his daughter -- it's just that his opinion of her, just like his opinion on the rest of humanity, is "already at its lowest possible point". And it's not that he particularly likes the Bible -- he just figures he should have it in front of him to remind him of how rotten the world's Christians are.
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* StrawNihilist: Mr. Peachum. It's not that he's Mr. Peachum is a miser -- he simply doesn't believe that money or ''anything'' can save him, so he may as well make the best of what little money he's got. It's not that he doesn't like his daughter -- it's just that his opinion of her, just like his opinion on the rest of humanity, is "already at its lowest possible point". And it's not that he particularly likes the Bible -- he just figures he should have it in front of him to remind him of how rotten the world's Christians are.
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* NietzscheWannabe: Mr. Peachum. It's not that he's a miser -- he simply doesn't believe that money or ''anything'' can save him, so he may as well make the best of what little money he's got. It's not that he doesn't like his daughter -- it's just that his opinion of her, just like his opinion on the rest of humanity, is "already at its lowest possible point". And it's not that he particularly likes the Bible -- he just figures he should have it in front of him to remind him of how rotten the world's Christians are.
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* StrawNihilist: Mr. Peachum. It's not that he's a miser -- he simply doesn't believe that money or ''anything'' can save him, so he may as well make the best of what little money he's got. It's not that he doesn't like his daughter -- it's just that his opinion of her, just like his opinion on the rest of humanity, is "already at its lowest possible point". And it's not that he particularly likes the Bible -- he just figures he should have it in front of him to remind him of how rotten the world's Christians are.
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** In the original production, the song known as Music/PirateJenny was to be sung by Polly and intended to be an ImagineSpot about how much she hates her family and dreams of escape. Later productions, and the 1931 Film version, gave it to Creator/LotteLenya's Jenny. By merely changing the character and singer, and especially Lenya's performance, the song acquired its now familiar meaning of an oppressed woman's fantasy ImagineSpot of revolutionary justice and retribution.
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** In the original production, the song known as Music/PirateJenny was to be sung by Polly and intended to be an ImagineSpot about how much she hates her family and dreams of escape. Later productions, and the 1931 Film version, gave it to Creator/LotteLenya's Jenny.Jenny [[note]] This was probable because Lenya sang the song on the 1930 studio recording[[/note]]. By merely changing the character and singer, and especially Lenya's performance, the song acquired its now familiar meaning of an oppressed woman's fantasy ImagineSpot of revolutionary justice and retribution.
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* [[https://www.amazon.com/Threepenny-Opera-1954-Blitzstein-Adaptation/dp/B00004X09T The 1956 Off-Broadway production]] directed by Marc Blitzstein, for which Lotte Lenya won a Tony Award for her role as Jenny. This version featured many of the common {{Bowdlerization}} of Brecht's original, but was nonetheless successful commercially and highly influential in its own right. The production featured Edward Asner (as Mr Peachum), Charlotte Rae as Mrs Peachum, Bea Arthur (as Lucy), Creator/JerryOrbach (as PC Smith, the Street Singer and Mack), John Astin (as Readymoney Matt/Matt of the Mint) and Jerry Stiller (as Crookfinger Jake) as members of the cast during its run.
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* [[https://www.amazon.com/Threepenny-Opera-1954-Blitzstein-Adaptation/dp/B00004X09T The 1956 Off-Broadway production]] directed by Marc Blitzstein, for which Lotte Lenya won a Tony Award for her role as Jenny. This version featured many of the common {{Bowdlerization}} {{Bowdlerization}}s of Brecht's original, but was nonetheless successful commercially and highly influential in its own right. The production featured Edward Asner (as Mr Peachum), Charlotte Rae as Mrs Peachum, Bea Arthur (as Lucy), Creator/JerryOrbach (as PC Smith, the Street Singer and Mack), John Astin (as Readymoney Matt/Matt of the Mint) and Jerry Stiller (as Crookfinger Jake) as members of the cast during its run.
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"The Threepenny Novel" is hardly Exactly What It Says On The Tin
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* NoHistoricalFiguresWereHarmed: Not within the play, but in a novel adaptation, ''[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin The Threepenny Novel]]'', Macheath is identified with UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper. As a ShoutOut, Macheath also appears in ''Comicbook/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen'', and is presented either as a JackTheRipoff, or maybe the ''actual'' Jack the Ripper.
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* NoHistoricalFiguresWereHarmed: Not within the play, but in a novel adaptation, ''[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin The ''The Threepenny Novel]]'', Novel'', Macheath is identified with UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper. As a ShoutOut, Macheath also appears in ''Comicbook/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen'', and is presented either as a JackTheRipoff, or maybe the ''actual'' Jack the Ripper.
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* NoHistoricalFiguresWereHarmed: Not within the play, but in a novel adaptation, ''[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin The Threepenny Novel]]'', Macheath is identified with UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper. As a ShoutOut, Macheath also appears in ''Film/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen'', and is presented either as a JackTheRipoff, or maybe the ''actual'' Jack the Ripper.
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* NoHistoricalFiguresWereHarmed: Not within the play, but in a novel adaptation, ''[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin The Threepenny Novel]]'', Macheath is identified with UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper. As a ShoutOut, Macheath also appears in ''Film/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen'', ''Comicbook/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen'', and is presented either as a JackTheRipoff, or maybe the ''actual'' Jack the Ripper.
