World of Julie

[andrewducker]

*Talking about The Last Starfighter*
Andy: I'm not sure it was any good - it was fun in the eighties.
Julie: I like eighties movies.
Andy: Like The Princess Bride.
Julie: I didn't like it - I hated the main woman in it.  She was so insipid.
Andy: Princess Buttercup?  She was a fairytale princess!
Julie: Fairytale Princesses don't prance around in sparkly shoes, they take them off and batter people to death with them!

Comments

[davesangel.livejournal.com]

Hmm...she might have been insipid, but unfortunately that's more to do with the writer than anything else. I've read the 'book' of The Princess Bride, which is actually just the screenwriter wittering on about stuff to do with the film, as well as tell a version of the story which is slightly different to that shown in the film. And the treatment/depiction of Buttercup would turn pretty much any woman into a feminist.

The film is still great, though, but The Last Starfighter is also most excellent (cheesey, but in a good way :P).

[dreema.livejournal.com]

DeathBlossom FTW :)