Comments | princesswitch: Forget Brokeback Mountain--try Brokeback *Lawn*!

princesswitch

Forget Brokeback Mountain--try Brokeback Lawn!

Mar 23, 2006 11:50

I am going to start with the most messed-up thing I have seen in a long time--this absolutely disgusting "marriage contract". This is the kind of dude who needs killing, then reincarnation, then re-killing! I post the link because I just have to, and also because whatever you think of my understanding of love and marriage, it can't be nearly as ( Read more... )

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reannon March 23 2006, 17:00:59 UTC

That's why one of the most romantic relationship in modern movies, for me, is Rick and Evelyn from THE MUMMY RETURNS. Yes, cheesy action flick. Don't care. These two have been married just shy of a decade, and yes, they have their adventures. But they're a partnership, and they still love each other and tease each other and love their child. There's a great moment right after Rick saves her from the bad guys. They hide behind a pillar. He cuts the ropes off her wrists and ankles. In a traditional movie, he would then jump out, guns blazing, while she hides behind him and they run for it.

Instead, he hands her a gun, they nod to each other, then they jump out and fire side by side. They cover for each other as they make their escape. And throughout the movie, he saves her life, and she saves his. It's a partnership, completely equal, with respect to differences and each other. Evil resurrected Egyptian villains aside, that's romance.

princesswitch March 23 2006, 17:04:49 UTC

They nod to each other! Like they don't even need to say much! Now that's the sort of thing that gets me all gooshy. *sigh*

Oh, I do have to see that! :-) Thanks for telling me about it.

maukatt March 24 2006, 00:14:10 UTC

Oh, the "Mummy" movies are great!

And yeah, that relationship stuff in the second movie is part of why I like it so much. Both movies are great, but the second one is my favorite of the two.

paradisacorbasi March 23 2006, 17:06:04 UTC

That movie rocked for more reasons than that.

When the pyramid starts coming down, Imhotep and Rick each shout for Anuck-Su-Namun and Evy, respectively, to RUN!

Evy pauses, sets her jaw, and rushes to pull Rick to safety.

Imhotep sees this and is heartened. He calls Anuck-Su-Namun for help, but she has run and refuses to turn back. Imhotep's heart is broken because he gave up everything for her -- his humanity, his life, his position in the pharaoh's court -- and the two mortals who had been dogging him have a greater love than he could ever have.

It ruled. Though it always makes me feel sad for Imhotep.

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paradisacorbasi March 23 2006, 17:03:52 UTC

There was a sitcom in the late 70s/early 80s about what happened to Cinderella after the end of the story. It was called The Charmings. It flopped, hardcore.

But I'm with you. I'd like to see what happened next.

Disney, on the other hand, is just making sequels to make them, without really telling much of another story.

cissasghost March 23 2006, 18:01:25 UTC

Re: the "marriage contract", which I stumbled on a few weeks ago - http://cissasghost.livejournal.com/181278.html

I seriously sat there staring at the screen reading "your birthday, January 4th" about 18 times. It was like, oh look, there goes my mental distance from this. Bye-bye, mental distance. *OMG hyperventilate*

"I even wrote stories about how Snow White knighted the dwarves and Cinderella was super-nice to her maids"
EEeeeee!!! I knew it! You wrote *fanfic*! I *knew* you were one of us fandom-type peoples! You're just cool like that. ;)

-Sonya

princesswitch March 23 2006, 18:13:19 UTC

Yes, as a little kid, I wrote fanfic before fanfic was a word! I didn't think of it that way.

I've wanted to re-interpret other writings, too. Like, writing a story of life after Gilead, from people who escaped it in the Handmaid's Tale. Or retelling the story of the central relationship in the Well of Loneliness, from Mary (the femme bisexual woman's) point of view.

cissasghost March 24 2006, 05:51:17 UTC

Those aren't 'verses I know (well, I've heard of 'The Handmaid's Tale', obviously, but not read it), but, you should! It's fun!

. . and now I must stop myself from lauching into the full-on, wild-eyed soapbox pitch as to why fandom will save the world and everyone should write fic. (But really, we will, and you should. ;) )

-Sonya

fluttergrrl30 March 24 2006, 00:26:10 UTC

Biddi biddi biddi, what the fuck, Buck?? :: facepalm ::

Is there any way that deranged assclown can be made to be on the receiving end of that very same contract? We can only hope, eh?

queerbychoice March 24 2006, 01:06:27 UTC

This is a wonderful journal entry. I would like to see more of those kind of love stories, too. And for that matter, I would like to see more stories in which the people are allowed to be single at the end of the story. Including female people. On the extremely rare occasions when an author does allow people to end of single, it's almost always only the male people who are allowed to do that.