So chums, as you might have guessed I am lounging in the comfort of my humble abode, watching good old Princess Bride. I miss all of you because I am watching it alone and...no one gets me. Except my friends. Oh, teen angst. I love this movie a great deal. Why am I able to watch it again and again, and still love it just as much each time? Eldridge would say that it is because it captures the true deep desires of my heart which I long to enact in the realm of actual life. I am not so sure.
Gasp, is she finally going to talk about Wild at Heart tonight? No, no, it would be cute to write about it while watching a movie like Princess Bride, but I am too unfocused and it is a bit too late to embark on this epic post. The reason that I am posting is to tell you that *more gasping* Chipotle called today to say that they have my wallet! Oh happy day! I wonder if my moneys are still in there? If they aren't I guess we'll know that those Chipotle employees are up to no good. So, now the question has become, how on earth, where on earth did they manage to find the wallet?
Another question which has long plagued me, why does Buttercup leave Wesley outside the Fire Swamp?
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I think she leaves him because she is afraid. She doesnt want to lose him again. She thinks he will be killed if she doesnt leave him. People often let people go too early, because they are scared to really lose them later on. Just my stance, really. That's how I've always seen that scene.
Oh...I was watching that last night on TV at my friend Jessie's house while we were playing backgammon. For the briefest of seconds, I thought we had been united in Princess Bride, but then I checked the date and realized that we had not. So sad. I commented about Buttercup doing that too. I don't like that she's so naive. It seems like one of the only flaws in the movie.
Just a gut reaction, I am experiencing a fever, and it's been a longly while since I've read the book, but I don't feel I dislike Buttercup's portrayal as "naive" in the movie. I think she's shown as a weaker character in the movie than in the book, however she seems "naive" in both portrayals. I don't see her willingness to believe the Prince and/or, her desire to stick to the promises she has made the Prince (in the book), to be what is lacking in her character. Rather, her unwillingness to take a strong stance and know what she wants bothers me. While Wesley believes unshakeably in their love, it is Buttercup who seems to doubt it. This does not bring her down in my esteem, however, but rather makes her more human. She does frustrating things that fall short of heroic out of fear, as would I. I think it is consistent with the Author's critical look at the idea of "love" or "true love" that she has so many doubts about its supposed power. She is practical, if not strong, in the movie. I really don't resent her naive aspects or see her actions as anything short of making a statement about the trials of actually believing in love even after you've found it. It seems to me much more naive, and ridiculously so, that Wesley seems to think that death cannot stop true love, and therefore she should just sit waiting for him even though he's dead. Or their promises to each other at the end of the book to live forever right before Wesley relapses into death. The author is poking fun at the naive aspect of love, and Buttercup is far less naive than Wesley. What I like about both the movie, and the book, is that it focuses, often with humor, on the many contradictions and shortfallings of the common conception of "love" or "true love". The relationship is naive, Wesley is naive, even the Prince is naive, and it is to a point. I like the character of Buttercup in the movie and the book because she does frustrate me, and therefore she makes me realize why love frustrates me, but also why I chose to believe in it in the end, and what elements of it I believe in. My mind is addled with fever, and I am writing this mainly to ignore the pain, so I apologize both for my inability to say anything and for my saying too much.
The thing that really intrigues me, which I should have been more specific about in my original enquiry, is her response in the book, "I can live without love." (Don't yell at me if that isn't exactly accurate). It has always seemed so curious to me, but I think she is saying that she is letting Wesley go out of self-protection, she is protecting her own heart from the pain of another loss, and so I would have to agree that she really isn't naive, she just has this flinty hardness in that scene which I think I might find a little bit inconsistent with portrayals of her character elsewhere in the novel. Or perhaps it is a sudden intensification of a trait that is more latent elsewhere? Yeah...that.
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