Page Summary
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
Active Entries
- 1: Interesting Links for 20-05-2025
- 2: Interesting Links for 19-05-2025
- 3: Interesting Links for 17-05-2025
- 4: Photo cross-post
- 5: Interesting Links for 15-05-2025
- 6: Interesting Links for 13-05-2025
- 7: Interesting Links for 10-05-2025
- 8: Interesting Links for 22-04-2025
- 9: A thing I wish Google Maps could do
- 10: Interesting Links for 12-05-2025
Style Credit
- Style: Neutral Good for Practicality by
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
timeasmymeasure
Expand Cut Tags
No cut tags
no subject
Date: 2012-07-12 11:17 am (UTC)I go off on one about Belle. Feel free not to read.
Date: 2012-07-12 03:07 pm (UTC)Feel free to skip the rest of this comment!
But.
I think I just associate with her far too much in the beginning of the movie, when she's inspired by her reading to seek out "adventures in the great wide somewhere!" and then... she settles down with the nice rich guy down the road. Stockholm syndrome aside, I invariably cry because she never has those adventures - because I don't think talking to clocks is a great adventure.
So maybe I'm setting my sights too high for her, but as far as I read it, she ends up still stuck in "This Provincial Life," and it breaks my heart.
/rant.
(My favorite crossover is that she eventually gets rescued from the castle by Mulan. Though I guess Rapunzel would be just as good a match as well, these days.)
Re: I go off on one about Belle. Feel free not to read.
Date: 2012-07-12 03:15 pm (UTC)It's not that I don't agree with your argument (that would be rotten), I just don't think it fits the text. What's stopping her from going off and having adventures after the movie's end? I'd like to think that having been cooped up in a Castle with only his own dark thoughts for seven years Adam (is his name I think?) would be delighted to get out of the house and join Belle on her adventures. Where you see them settling down to read by the fire, I see them off on a round the world sailing trip, complete with Cogsworth and Lumiere and maybe even Mrs Potts on the crew.
Also, not to piss on your chips, but the book she reads at the beginning of the story has a prince in a castle with a curse... so she actually got the exact 'adventure' she was reading about. I know that later she sings about the 'great wide somewhere', but maybe you're misrepresenting what Belle herself really wanted? (Which is not to say I don't think she would want to travel too, but for that argument see the previous paragraph.)
no subject
Date: 2012-07-12 03:27 pm (UTC)You're entirely right, of course. We don't know what happens post-movie, as for some reason Belle is one of the very few princesses whose sequel is set during the timeline of her original movie (which - what?). But the way you fill in post-canon depends on your reading of the movie - you're obviously filling in a preference based on liking Belle/Adam (and that's OK - not that this needed saying.)
And that I'm probably projecting - in fact, I know I'm projecting the experience of seeing a lot of my friends 'settle' for marriage over the ambitions that they used to have. I've had it pointed out before that the book she reads at the beginning is not all that different from her actual story, and I buy that as a valid argument, but it doesn't change the visceral "no, Belle, have adventures, don't marry that guy!" reaction the movie always gives me.
Oh well. It's a good movie objectively, I just don't like watching it anymore.
no subject
Date: 2012-07-12 04:40 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-07-12 11:22 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-07-12 11:35 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-07-12 08:44 pm (UTC)On a similar note, Disney does the Hunger Games: https://www.facebook.com/lisa.mantchev/posts/392389114155708?ref=notif¬if_t=share_reply
no subject
Date: 2012-07-13 09:06 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-07-13 09:07 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-07-13 12:16 pm (UTC)