This past weekend, I watch The Music Man for the first time in many years.\u00a0 This musical is about a scam artist by the name of Harold Hill, who poses as a traveling salesman.\u00a0 He claims that he is a professor of music and that he will direct a boys band for the towns he visits.\u00a0 In the movie, he visits a particular town in Iowa that is very behind in their 1920s modern culture.\u00a0 He does use the method of finding their pain and helping them to see that his product will solve their problem, but he creates a pain that is not originally there.\u00a0 This town had never before seen a pool table, and they had just got their first pool table imported.\u00a0 Professor Hill tells all the parents in the town that this pool table would turn their boys into bums, and they needed something to save their sons and mature them.\u00a0 The solution of course was a boys band.\u00a0 There are numerous scenes throughout the film where he is selling to different parents and convincing them to sign their sons up for his boys band.\u00a0 His plan is that once the uniforms arrive he will hop on the next train and leave the town forever.\u00a0 While he did identify a need and a solution for his costumers, that need was manufactured to serve his purpose and his solution was fake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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