unenchanted
Has anyone here seen/read "Ella Enchanted"? Well, I've had a head cold for the past two days so it's been a perfect time for me to curl up in front of the TV and veg out. Mom was watching "Ella Enchanted" last night and I joined her. It wasn't that great a movie but I had some very dark ideas on how to fix it up. I seem to have a morbid side with an “Othello” complex. Seriously, I really liked Prince Char. Yet I think it would have been a much better movie, first of all, if they had cut out all the blatantly medievalized modern culture (i.e. wooden escalator, “Medieval Teen” magazine, etc), and secondly, if Ella had actually plunged the dagger into Char’s warm little heart. Those emotions would have given me so much more to feed on than “oh, look, she can finally overcome the ‘blessing’ right when she needs to.” God damn happy endings; they’re no fun. If I was writing that story, I’d make her kill Char and have the trauma make her able to overcome the curse. That’d be so much more enjoyable. She looses the one thing she hates by sacrificing the one thing she loves. Catch-22! Then, I’d probably go all extra-Shakespearean and make her kill herself. Either that, or send her on a bloodthirsty rampage, eventually being killed in some heart-rending fashion and show Ella’s last moments as she, a wretched young girl, slowly dies from her fatal wounds, lying on the floor surrounded by a pool of her blood. Oh, yeah. I suppose I'd pull a “Hamlet” and make her kill Edgar before she died. The kingdom has to change somehow for the better, right? What’s the point of the whole story if everything stays the way it was? In fact, I’d probably go back and rewrite the whole thing with a dark twist. Ella would have a seductress side to her. The elf might have an odd fetish of some kind. As for Prince Char...I might just leave him as it is. :) What? I’m not in love with a fictional character, what are you talking about???