Romantic Question Time
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ROMANTIC QUESTION TIME!
As most of you know, I'm a sucker for the tortured heros and the tragic romances. In particular, I like stories like Beauty and the Beast, The Phantom of the Opera, and The Count of Monte Cristo, etc. (P.S. as Batchix brings up, Batman is a good example of a similar type, too!)
I've been thinking about what appeals and what works about these stories for me.
1 - Do you feel disappointed when the Beast changes into a Prince? ( doesn't need to be the Disney version here, btw. Any version.)
2 - If the Beast never changed to a Prince, (and you were "stuck with" the Beast forever) would you really truly be ok with that?
3 - If the Phantom of the Opera hadn't been homicidal, and you hadn't kinda-sorta been in love with Raoul, could you really truly get past his facial deformation?
4 - Could you live with the Phantom, knowing that in some ways you'd be isolating yourself (since the Phantom can't really live completely as a normal person.)
5 - It is kind of the unrealistic fantasy of the tortured hero that attracts, isn't it? If someone in real life had the revenge fantasies and personality problems of say, The Phantom or the Count of Monte Cristo, most sane women wouldn't touch them with a ten foot pole. (sidenote: part of the appeal of Doctor Who, "I'm a Time Lord, so I have that whole Highlander problem AND I destroyed my home planet, but Rose, you made me better!") ..... In a fiction, it's oh so romantic, isn't it? I'm guessing part of it is the "women wanting their love to be strong enough to heal" sort of thing. (and then are we getting into the "Utena wants to be a prince" territory?) ( Also probably part of why people like Twilight. ) .... or is it more of the "wow, he has a sexy brain" thing? Could you truly live with a cranky angsty fellow and still be happy?
6 - What do you think? What is the specific appeal of the heros in these and similar stories for you? Guys, you can answer, too, if you want to play along. :)
ROMANTIC QUESTION TIME!
As most of you know, I'm a sucker for the tortured heros and the tragic romances. In particular, I like stories like Beauty and the Beast, The Phantom of the Opera, and The Count of Monte Cristo, etc. (P.S. as Batchix brings up, Batman is a good example of a similar type, too!)
I've been thinking about what appeals and what works about these stories for me.
1 - Do you feel disappointed when the Beast changes into a Prince? ( doesn't need to be the Disney version here, btw. Any version.)
2 - If the Beast never changed to a Prince, (and you were "stuck with" the Beast forever) would you really truly be ok with that?
3 - If the Phantom of the Opera hadn't been homicidal, and you hadn't kinda-sorta been in love with Raoul, could you really truly get past his facial deformation?
4 - Could you live with the Phantom, knowing that in some ways you'd be isolating yourself (since the Phantom can't really live completely as a normal person.)
5 - It is kind of the unrealistic fantasy of the tortured hero that attracts, isn't it? If someone in real life had the revenge fantasies and personality problems of say, The Phantom or the Count of Monte Cristo, most sane women wouldn't touch them with a ten foot pole. (sidenote: part of the appeal of Doctor Who, "I'm a Time Lord, so I have that whole Highlander problem AND I destroyed my home planet, but Rose, you made me better!") ..... In a fiction, it's oh so romantic, isn't it? I'm guessing part of it is the "women wanting their love to be strong enough to heal" sort of thing. (and then are we getting into the "Utena wants to be a prince" territory?) ( Also probably part of why people like Twilight. ) .... or is it more of the "wow, he has a sexy brain" thing? Could you truly live with a cranky angsty fellow and still be happy?
6 - What do you think? What is the specific appeal of the heros in these and similar stories for you? Guys, you can answer, too, if you want to play along. :)
