Kiss me, fool Miki & I celebrated St Valentine's Day at home, watching ‘our movie’. This is how we originally met: in the front row of the Prince Charles Cinema, where we'd each gone to watch this.
Shrek is a great date movie, a romantic fairy tale about that fairy tale, Romance. Its two human protagonists, Lord Farquaad and Princess Fiona, are on course for a romantic marriage motivated entirely by stories. In his case, that he will become king when he marries, in hers that she will marry her True Love after he has rescued her from an imprisoning dragon. Her fantasy begins to unravel when she discovers her rescuer to be an ogre sent by her would-be groom. Mind you, she has a little secret of her own. Courtesy of an enchantment, she is by day an enchanting princess, by night a ogre. The spell, she believes, will be lifted by her True Love's first kiss, which will restore her to her true form.
Matters do not go well for Romance Classic. Fiona and the ogre fall in love, and Farquaad, while dark and arguably handsome, is vertically challenged. Fiona eventually kisses her True Love, and assumes her true form: an ogre. She and Shrek live happily ever after. This is wonderful, a funny, romantic fairy-tale antidote to romantic fairy tales. Post Modernism's finest hour.
IMDB says PoMo's having another go: Shrek 2 is "in production".
Posted by SJT at February 15, 2004 05:38 AM
Having a bit of a weekend of rediscovering people ....followed a Google link to discover Martin Eastwell, now living in Northumbria. And another Google link brought me here. Waving at you from my present home in Cardiff. Met up with Bonnie recently over in Cork. Getting married to Steve in July. Recording sixth album of my songs over the next few months.
I gather from what I've read that you're still in touch with Norman, so pass on a wave to him too!
Glad you sound happy - I am!
If you're interested, drop me an email and I'll send you a proper catching up message ...Anne.
Posted by: Anne Lister at March 28, 2004 09:49 PM
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