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[kiki_miserychic]

#ruined by kings and now ruiner of kings #honestly do you know how much potential this film would have had as a real examination of queenship/femininity in a patriarchal world? #the answer is a lot #it could have been utterly breathtaking and amazing and ridiculously on point #if they had used beauty as a repeated motif - because yes yes ravenna is right #because queens are figureheads who rarely get to rule; because women are judged on what they look like #and so in a world like that - to take power; to take true power #you have to use your weakness and fashion it into your strength #so yes yes beauty is power #cosmetics and physical appearance as an extension of the will #’as strong as an arm’ #and beauty is how ravenna conquers but faith is how snow conquers #it could have been amazing as an examination of the two different forms of queenship #ravenna who uses her very self as a weapon against the world and snow #who had been forged by the world and comes back in armour with no pretensions to feminine beauty or tradition #to take the throne #two methods of conquest and both succeed. and in time the throne will rest as heavily on snow as it did on ravenna #jesus christ you deserved a better script

-Snow White & The Huntsman from from dance-at-bougival

Comments

[kuwdora.livejournal.com]

A++

[deej.livejournal.com]

Excellent tags are really excellent. Would have watched the hell out of that movie.

[beccatoria.livejournal.com]

Epic tags are epic. This movie was full of so much promise and potential that just...got lost in the beautiful imagery.

If anything, I think I felt more upset by that because I watched this film right after I finished watching another show - a show that pretty much IS everything those tags describe. It's a show about two generations of women pitted against each other, the older one trying to rule through beauty, the younger one through faith, the older one hating but also wanting to teach the younger, the younger learning that eventually she will lose all she loves to that crown, both of them struggling to ruin a world that dismisses and uses and discards them beause they are women. Yeah, that's the show. (http://beccatoria.livejournal.com/165617.html). It's just 62 hours long and subtitled in Korean so you know, not many people want to watch it. But I'm totally going to be obnoxious enough to at least mention it! :D (Err, yes, I should probably note its name: The Great Queen Seon Deok! Streaming links in the link above).