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Overboard, kinda
Today I rewatched Overboard , an 80s movie with Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell where Hawn plays JoAnna, a snooty rich woman who refuses to pay a carpenter, Dean(Russell) because he doesn't use the wood she wanted him to use(but didn't specify) She gets amnesia when she falls off her yacht in the middle of the night. Dean says she's his wife, Annie, thinking to get his payment out of her by having her take care of his house and four sons. Naturally, Annie finds her inner nice person and they fall in love.
A lot of people seem to not like goldie Hawn, though I've never really known why, as she's always seemed incessantly likable in her roles, no matter what they are. If fact, I think it's largely that likability and the fact that she maintains her dignity throughout that make Overboard a fun movie(the fact that she and Russell are the rare Hollywood couple that actually work on screen and off also helps a lot.)
Oddly, they main plot of Overboard actually rests on one of myt least favorite storytelling elements: that it's ok to be horrible to someone and continuously be horrible to them because they were horrible to you: one is "wrong" because of their arroagance, but the other is "right" because they're the protagonist. Now, I'm using" horrible" extremely generically here...in this case, it's justified as extracting labor against someone's will because they refused to pay you for a labor, but often it comes into play as "it's ok for your gang to beat someone up because they beat you up" and things like that. It's ok in small doses, but rarely works as a major theme. Here, though, it's never really bothered me, though I've never been able to put my finger on why.
It should be interesting to see how the Fantasy Couple series handles it, though.
(Incidentally, another major least favorite is the "You've done bad/evil but you love/care for a good person and now that they have made you see the error of your ways we shall KILL them to punish you so you can be miserable forever." I mean, what about the poor dead person? What'd they do to deserve that? Aren't you punishing the wrong person there? And yet, I seem to be something of a sucker for those no matter how much they annoy me...I guess because they so often take place in period and fantasy settings-or even just action pieces-meaning sword-or-other-weapon-wielding vengeance is likely soon to follow.)
A lot of people seem to not like goldie Hawn, though I've never really known why, as she's always seemed incessantly likable in her roles, no matter what they are. If fact, I think it's largely that likability and the fact that she maintains her dignity throughout that make Overboard a fun movie(the fact that she and Russell are the rare Hollywood couple that actually work on screen and off also helps a lot.)
Oddly, they main plot of Overboard actually rests on one of myt least favorite storytelling elements: that it's ok to be horrible to someone and continuously be horrible to them because they were horrible to you: one is "wrong" because of their arroagance, but the other is "right" because they're the protagonist. Now, I'm using" horrible" extremely generically here...in this case, it's justified as extracting labor against someone's will because they refused to pay you for a labor, but often it comes into play as "it's ok for your gang to beat someone up because they beat you up" and things like that. It's ok in small doses, but rarely works as a major theme. Here, though, it's never really bothered me, though I've never been able to put my finger on why.
It should be interesting to see how the Fantasy Couple series handles it, though.
(Incidentally, another major least favorite is the "You've done bad/evil but you love/care for a good person and now that they have made you see the error of your ways we shall KILL them to punish you so you can be miserable forever." I mean, what about the poor dead person? What'd they do to deserve that? Aren't you punishing the wrong person there? And yet, I seem to be something of a sucker for those no matter how much they annoy me...I guess because they so often take place in period and fantasy settings-or even just action pieces-meaning sword-or-other-weapon-wielding vengeance is likely soon to follow.)