Troll And Seeing Romance Where It Isn’t Shown
Spoiler Alert – This post will talk about the Netflix movie Troll and it WILL contain spoilers. If you haven’t yet watched this fun and surprisingly good monster film, you might wish to skip this post.
The Dear Wonderful Hubby and I watched Troll on a lark. We saw Troll 2 had released and figured it must have been good or enjoyable enough to warrant a sequel.
My friends, it was both. It was fun and fantastical and emotionally deep in places. The characters were interesting and well developed. The expected army guy? He had depth and humor and was extremely likable.
It was also a Norwegian film, which made it even more fun, because characters switched between languages often and fluidly. (It had English subtitles.) And the scenery was gorgeous.
Did Troll have romance?
No. Not on the screen.
As a romance reader and writer, however, I saw how romantic relationships could form between certain characters and I was pairing (and more) characters up during the entire movie.
Troll will definitely inspire some future stories from me.
(smiles)
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Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein And Monster-Loving Heroines
Spoiler Alert – This post will talk about Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein and it WILL contain spoilers. If you haven’t yet watched this beautiful monster movie based on the classic novel by Mary Shelley, you might wish to skip this post.
The Dear Wonderful Hubby and I watched Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein and we both really enjoyed it.
It was an absolutely gorgeous movie. The little tweaks to Mary Shelley’s classic story worked for us. GdT did a wonderful job of showing us who was the true monster. And I found the ending sad but not as very, very sad as the endings were in previous Frankenstein movies.
And the love story between the creature and Elizabeth was done very well.
Which is often difficult to do.
Because it takes a special being to love a ‘monster.’
Society has trained us to reject those who are different, especially those who look differently.
And many people never move past first impressions. They can’t see past physical appearances.
The average person would never allow themselves to be attracted to someone who looks like a monster.
Elizabeth isn’t the average person.
She has been raised in a convent and has limited exposure to men. She doesn’t know what is or isn’t normal. They are all strange creatures to her.
Society hasn’t indoctrinated her in that way yet.
And when she’s freed from the convent, she’s…h@rny.
Basically.
Though there are no sex scenes shown.
She has the hots for her future husband. She has the hots for her future husband’s extremely different in all ways brother. I suspect if her future husband had three brothers, she would have had the hots for all three of them.
She doesn’t yet know what she likes in a romantic partner and she has a lot of passion to share.
She also loves insects, the stranger the better. She’s fascinated with wild creatures that aren’t often loved by the average person.
The Creature, as Frankenstein’s creation is often referred to, is simply another strange being she encounters. She doesn’t care that society might reject him and their relationship…because she doesn’t yet know what society likes or what the punishments are for rebelling against society expectations.
The Creature adores her. And he is even more innocent and new to the world than she is, which must be super appealing to her.
I understand completely why she would be attracted to him.
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