I just saw a preview this weekend for "The Prince and Me", a movie coming out soon- i believe starring julia stiles- i get her confused with other young actresses, so it may be someone else. Anyway, the premise of the movie seems to me that she meets a guy and falls for him, and guess what- he's a prince! She then gets to live out the "fairy tale" romance with an actual prince (of course in most actual fairy tales the princesses - or lead female character- don't actually fall in love with the prince before marrying him- but that's a different subject)
Anyway, my thoughts on this movie are- and I have not yet seen it, so these are just impressions I got from the preview- are these:
why do we continually have these movies that perpetuate the myth of the "knight in shining armor", "happily ever after", and all those fairy tale standards that american girls are grown up with. Hasn't anyone figured out that things usually (and by usually i mean, every time in my life) do not happen that way. I know this sound jaded and bitter, and I don't mean it to. And i also don't mean to say that there is no such thing as love or romance. I have been in a great relationship for a long time now. But it wasn't all roses and romance, it takes work, from both sides. Errr.... Sorry, writing all that got me worked up. I'd love to hear anybody else's opinion on the subject.
Anyway, my thoughts on this movie are- and I have not yet seen it, so these are just impressions I got from the preview- are these:
why do we continually have these movies that perpetuate the myth of the "knight in shining armor", "happily ever after", and all those fairy tale standards that american girls are grown up with. Hasn't anyone figured out that things usually (and by usually i mean, every time in my life) do not happen that way. I know this sound jaded and bitter, and I don't mean it to. And i also don't mean to say that there is no such thing as love or romance. I have been in a great relationship for a long time now. But it wasn't all roses and romance, it takes work, from both sides. Errr.... Sorry, writing all that got me worked up. I'd love to hear anybody else's opinion on the subject.