Really? I didn't particularly see anything objectionable about the women...the women of the other world(Lamia, Una, other witches) were all traditional fairy tale roles, and Lamia and Sal, evil or not, fought for the lives they wanted, and Una fought for her son and her independence. Victorian, book or movie, was essentially as nice a girl as you would find at the time. I guess the whole needing rescued and people wanting to eat her heart all the time could be an argument against Yvaine, but it's not like some blow up doll who stood around looking pretty, and she never took anything lying down.
I think most moviegoers automatically object to any female character that's not a modern woman transported tp whereever and whenever then story is set, which NEVER works(in fact, there are movies I dislike for that reason alone)
The emotions and truths in Stardust were rather subtle and you had to pay attention, and a direct translation would have caused some of it to be missed, and a lot of what was changed would have required several minutes of nothing but exposition, so most of the changes don'r bother me too much, evben though a few felt unnecessary.
I really wish, though, that they hadn't changed the end...the movie said "That's it, that's all there is to their story. They adventured for a few days and then settled down" while the books said "and that was just the beginning of their story." And, really, the immediately moving to Stormhold suited them even less than in the book, and they seemed MORE likely to want to get a taste of the world before parking in just one part of it.
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
branchandroot
no subject
Date: 2007-08-23 03:09 pm (UTC)I think most moviegoers automatically object to any female character that's not a modern woman transported tp whereever and whenever then story is set, which NEVER works(in fact, there are movies I dislike for that reason alone)
The emotions and truths in Stardust were rather subtle and you had to pay attention, and a direct translation would have caused some of it to be missed, and a lot of what was changed would have required several minutes of nothing but exposition, so most of the changes don'r bother me too much, evben though a few felt unnecessary.
I really wish, though, that they hadn't changed the end...the movie said "That's it, that's all there is to their story. They adventured for a few days and then settled down" while the books said "and that was just the beginning of their story." And, really, the immediately moving to Stormhold suited them even less than in the book, and they seemed MORE likely to want to get a taste of the world before parking in just one part of it.