I always have revelations at the most inopportune times

Oct 06, 2012 05:11

In the midst of re-watching The Last Unicorn and remembering just how incredibly much I love the story*, something unexpectedly occurred to me:

Adaptations and pastiches that interpret Dracula's Lucy Westenra as a sexually manipulative coquette aren't just counter to my interpretation, they're actually kind of misogynistic.

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bizarreoptimism October 6 2012, 14:47:18 UTC
You are correct. I don't even know if I saw TLU back in the 80s, and if I did, I just sort of jumble it up together in my head with Willow and Dark Crystal and whichever movie had a curly-horned red-skinned Satan-type character that may or may not have been played by Tim Curry, which may in fact just be Willow or Dark Crystal, but I don't care. I'm a rotten child of the 80s; the only proper 80s-ish cartoons/kids' movies that were non-Disney that won me over were The Secret of NIMH and All Dogs Go to Heaven (and Land Before Time, I suppose) -- and the rest I just don't REMEMBER, much less pay attention to. ;-) It's not that I DISLIKE TLU; it was truly that I just don't care. Because I don't KNOW it.

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magratpudifoot October 7 2012, 01:19:33 UTC
See, *that* makes sense. There was a moment there where I thought it was possible that you had seen it and still didn't care, and that I therefore DIDN'T KNOW YOU AT ALL. I think I actually benefited from the fact that I didn't ever see it until I was nearly in high school*. The fact that it came out before either of us was born and WASN'T a huge, Disney-level release means we can be forgiven for not growing up with it, I think.

* That said, you can BET 14-year-old me mocked the soundtrack *relentlessly*. 26-year-old me mocks the soundtrack pretty relentlessly, still, and is considering not suggesting it for the Animation Night film society screening next semester simply because of how bad the songs are. And I actually LIKE late 70s/early 80s folk-pop, so, y'know, NOT GOOD.

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