A dark, beautiful and very sensual fairy tale / fantasy movie. Loss of innocence, destruction, coming of age, seduction and love are the main themes. Visually stunning and full of mischievous fairies, beautiful unicorns and demons.
I remember watching this movie when I was a kid thinking that the dude had really ugly teeth. Yes, I’m talking about Tom Cruise.😂 On the other hand I really liked the red guy (Lord of Darkness) and I remember how bummed I was that it didn’t work out between him and the heroine. Actually I’m still bummed.
This is the
second and (probably) last part or my essay “The Force Awakens and Fairytales”.
This time I wanted to describe the Norwegian folktale about Prince Lindworm
(which can you read HERE) which, in my opinion, is the most accurate summary of
Kylo/Ben & Rey relationship. First, I will discuss a theoretical framework
and concepts that I will need to conduct proper analysis of the parallels between
TFA and “Prince Lindworm”. But don’t get discouraged! Throughout this essay I will
continuously get back to the movie.
Wonderful meta about this very romantic folktale and the characters and themes of the sequel trilogy. Next to this all the Beauty and the Beast comparisons seem almost shallow.
Dominic Alistair, Marquis of Vidal is a bad lot a rake and seducer, reckless, heedless, and possessed of a murderous temper. He is known by friend and foe alike as the “Devil’s Cub.” Yet as the handsome and wealthy heir to a Dukedom, he is considered a good prospect on the marriage market. Vidal currently has his eye on the young, lovely, and unintelligent Sophia Challoner, and Sophia’s greedy mother is more than happy to encourage his dubious attentions.
When lovely, saucy Mary Challoner had practiced her bold deception upon the hot-blooded, fiery-tempered young Marquis of Vidal–substituting herself for her young sister he had thought to carry off to France–she had little notion he would grimly hold her to her part of the bargain. Now he had left her, and she was alone, a stranger in a strange land, prey to the intrigues of glittering, heartless, 18th century Paris.
Only one person could rescue her–the Marquis himself. But how could she ever trust this man? How could she even hope to overcome the contempt in which he held her? And how could even the sudden flowering of her love ever bridge the terrible gap between them?
Emotionally unstable aristocrat abducts a strong willed, no-nonsense heroine….sounds familiar?
Probably my favourite from Georgette Heyer. Second in a series of three books. It’s not necessary to read the first one to understand the plot although I highly recommend it.
Bryony and her sisters have come down in the world. Their merchant father died trying to reclaim his fortune and left them to eke out a living in a village far from their home in the city.
But when Bryony is caught in a snowstorm and takes refuge in an abandoned manor, she stumbles into a house full of dark enchantments. Is the Beast that lives there her captor, or a fellow prisoner? Is the house her enemy or her ally? And why are roses blooming out of season in the courtyard?
Armed only with gardening shears and her wits, Bryony must untangle the secrets of the house before she—or the Beast—are swallowed by them.
Monsters and Villains 