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prysmicdork"Even after Yvaine mellows and warms to Tristan, who discovers her in a crater and becomes her protector, Ms. Danes has a distracting habit of scrunching her features into a scowl unbefitting a supernatural heroine who aspires to live happily ever after."
From the NYT review of Stardust, for some reason this line makes me just furious. Not having seen the movie yet, I don't know who to blame exactly, the movie or the reviewer, but it's such a horrid misinterpretation of both the character and of what women in fairy tales and fantasy are or should be that it just makes me steaming mad! So I am posting here to steam (STEAM).
(On the whole I am inclined to blame the reviewer, because for me the NYT has had kind of a crap track record in writing about/reviewing fantasy and Neil Gaiman has on the whole seemed both involved with and pleased by the movie and I am inclined to trust him.)
From the NYT review of Stardust, for some reason this line makes me just furious. Not having seen the movie yet, I don't know who to blame exactly, the movie or the reviewer, but it's such a horrid misinterpretation of both the character and of what women in fairy tales and fantasy are or should be that it just makes me steaming mad! So I am posting here to steam (STEAM).
(On the whole I am inclined to blame the reviewer, because for me the NYT has had kind of a crap track record in writing about/reviewing fantasy and Neil Gaiman has on the whole seemed both involved with and pleased by the movie and I am inclined to trust him.)