Okay guys but a remake of The Princess Bride where the frame story is a sick little girl home from school, playing like Breath of the Wild when her grandmother comes in to read her a book. And she starts reading aloud, and the fantasy part starts and it’s footage from the original film that plays for 30 seconds, before the little girl interrupts to be like “is this a story where a bunch of guys save a girl?” in this really annoyed voice
And the grandmother is like “……nooo, let me start again, I misread,” and the fantasy starts again, except this time Wesley is a farm girl and Buttercup is the haughty boy who doesn’t realize he loves her, and Inigo Montoya is a woman, and so is Fezzik and Vizzini, and Humperdinck and Miracle Max, they’re all women, and the only men in the story are the ones playing the roles that were originally female (so: Buttercup, Max’s wife, old lady who boos in nightmare sequence, I literally think that’s it?)
(I thought about lesbian Princess Bride because of course, but then I thought what if you kept the script almost exactly the same, and when reviews complain that the men were boring, we can be like THE ROLES WERE ALWAYS BORING IT JUST WASNT NOTICEABLE BECAUSE THAT’S HOW YOU WRITE WOMEN)
(Lesbian Princess Bride tho, that’s giving me a lot to think about)
And there’s nothing gritty about the remake, the swordplay is as acrobatic as it is unrealistic, the quips are just as light, the colors just as bright, the characters just as ridiculous, and the rodents of unusual size are still giant puppets except women, everywhere women, women women women of all kinds, and it wins a billion oscars
@alkaloidbitch made a very important point about how we may Enhance the Gay, yes yes yes let me stress the degree to which Inigo and Fezzik are married, and oh boy the height difference, oh boy god almighty the sweet sweet height difference
I’m seeing a lot of reblogs saying Gwendoline Christie should be Fezzik, because she is a big strong 6′3′’ lady. This is true. But do you know who else is a big much stronger 6′3′’ lady who has set records for being strong, was an American Gladiator, and as a bonus is an out and proud lesbian happily married to another big strong lady?
“Death and the Maiden” is a very recurrent theme among artists, but usually it is about a naked girl and a creepy skeleton, so I wanted to give it a different twist. Here Death is female (since in italian the noun death=“morte” is feminine), and the Maiden is a simple girl who likes to hang around with her very strange friend.
Abuse by parents is so insidious, especially emotional abuse. Because parents can be fine and supportive and loving until something doesn’t go their way and then it’s guilt and appeals to authority that border on gaslighting.
Because I don’t know what else to call it when a parent says the way they remember it is the TRUTH, negating a child’s experience and memory and then saying that they are right because they are the parent.
Their version of what happened is the official story and a child gets manipulated into believing it or agreeing with it.
And sometimes these relationships don’t necessarily change when the child becomes an adult, sometimes that child standing up for themselves and holding their ground becomes evidence that they don’t “care” and that they are “unfeeling” or “unappreciative” of what the parent has given them.
And sure, maybe overall they are top tier parents worthy of awards, but so many can’t face that at best they have been using abusive tactics to emotionally manipulate their children.
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