Tristan & Isolde
Aug. 27th, 2006 12:36 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
woodfaceSo, I didn't realise they'd make a movie about this until I found it on a comm recently. I love the story of Tristan and Isolde, it's one that belongs to my childhood as my sister used to tell it to me when I was little. I'm usually not a fan of the whole secret affairs tails, but this one always stood out to me. Unlike Lancelot and Guinevere, Tristan and Isolde remained loyal to their king. That's something that I always held dear about them because even when they finally slept (in the sleeping sense) together, Tristan still kept his sword between them.
Sadly enough, this movie completely throws that away. The beginning is actually semi-accurate with the version(s) that I know, but the whole sleeping together (in a non sleeping sense) thing kinda bummed me. I could have forgiven them for not including the love potion (to make the story more belieable), but that change hurt a lot of the movie for me. The legend is all about the wanting and them never getting it because they love King Mark too much to hurt him like that, even if they know that they are already betraying him just by the way they feel.
And of course, the entire ending was changed too. No Tristan leaving and getting married with another Isolde. No him near dying requesting Isolde's presence and his wife lying about the colour of the sails on the boat that brought Isolde to him. No seperate graves with rose bushes growing over the chapel to tangle together.
The movie's not bad, it's just that it wasn't the story that I loved so much. (And yes, I'm aware that there are a lot of different versions of it.)
Sadly enough, this movie completely throws that away. The beginning is actually semi-accurate with the version(s) that I know, but the whole sleeping together (in a non sleeping sense) thing kinda bummed me. I could have forgiven them for not including the love potion (to make the story more belieable), but that change hurt a lot of the movie for me. The legend is all about the wanting and them never getting it because they love King Mark too much to hurt him like that, even if they know that they are already betraying him just by the way they feel.
And of course, the entire ending was changed too. No Tristan leaving and getting married with another Isolde. No him near dying requesting Isolde's presence and his wife lying about the colour of the sails on the boat that brought Isolde to him. No seperate graves with rose bushes growing over the chapel to tangle together.
The movie's not bad, it's just that it wasn't the story that I loved so much. (And yes, I'm aware that there are a lot of different versions of it.)
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Date: 2006-08-27 01:41 am (UTC)I rather liked it. As a romance and it was very, very pretty. I like pretty movies. And I was totally girl crushing on Sophia Myles (more or less since Thunderbirds, cracktastically ridiculous movie that was) and James Franco is a spunk. Why yes, I am shallow and superficial :)
As usual, it was Hollywood-ised. As a movie it never would have passed muster if there hadn't been illicit sex. And angst can only be taken in small doses, particularly when you're talking about movie-going audiences. Sad, but ultimately true.
On a side note, that is a simply gorgeous icon you're using.
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Date: 2006-08-27 11:31 am (UTC)I know, but it sucks because it lessens who they are. I didn't mind the movie, it just wasn't Tristan and Isolde like they're supposed to be.
On a side note, that is a simply gorgeous icon you're using.
*g* Thanks!