Uncountableth reason why Naomi Mitchison is AWESOME
Just realised (Duh! Duh! hits side of head) that the rape scene early in The Corn King and the Spring Queen - realistic, painful, traumatic - was surely riffing off the famous Wromantic Wrape scene in E M Hull's notorious piece of orientalist rom-porn, The Sheik (filmed with Valentino doing intense smouldering). What with the horseback chase element and all.