On the Typical Emotional Narrative of Fairy Tales

Suzanne 2021-10-20 17:24:28

This is a fairy tale and a concluding narrative of people's hearts and emotions.
Fairy tales, this should be the first vocabulary of all those who have watched the movie. All elements are full of the beauty and romance in fairy tales. An unexpected encounter leads to the fruit of love. A simple shop boy travels a long distance to find a meteor for his lover. The princes with evil intentions are conspiring to fight for the throne, and the meteor princess. The legendary love with the little boy. No matter what, it shows the fairy tale feeling brought by the rich and wonderful imagination. The narratives of these plots make the whole movie always maintain a high level of tension, and it seems that there is no ordinary bridge to find. Everyone has a childhood. As a fairy tale movie, "Stardust" evokes people's childhood fantasy and satisfaction about the story of the prince and princess with a plot of illusion and romance.
However, behind the exciting fairy tales, people’s emotional narratives and conceptual expressions are also conveyed. In the imperceptibility, the importance of the emotional type is promoted and emphasized, and it seems to be saying: what is the most important, what is spurned, and so on. Of course, these concepts have been explained and narrated in past fairy tales. It's just that "Stardust" tries to show all the emotional levels in the same story, just like a schematic diagram. After reading it, the life is probably black and white.
The central character of the story is the beautiful meteor that descends from the sky. Female, three groups of people try to find and obtain her to meet their own needs.
The sinister and attentive princes symbolize the desire for fame and fortune. They fight each other for the right of succession to the throne and kill each other. They represent a category that regards power and money above emotions. Such a person is a terrible existence in reality, but in the story is interpreted as ridiculous, stupid and ugly. Before they were alive, the ghosts returned to the brotherhood of brothers and sisters, squatting together to watch the continued struggle of the living. In fact, they don't have hatred, they are just dazzled by power and profit.
The dark queens symbolize the desire for eternal youth. Although they are born and old, their faces are gradually ugly due to the vicissitudes of the years, and they are disheartened and have no fun in life. They also have no emotion, and their beautiful self is the only purpose of survival. Although the three are sisters, they don't have a deep relationship between sisters, and there are exploits and deceptions between each other. The action of looking for the Meteor Girl together is only the result of a convergence of interests. Like the princes, they are selfish beings!
Shop boy symbolizes the desire for love. This is the only one of the three that acts for others. He represents pure emotion, an attitude of contributing everything to love. Of course, such an attitude is immature, and he does not really understand the existence of his true love, but he is different from selfish princes and queens after all. Therefore, the arrangement of the story allowed him to obtain the Meteor Girl first, let him defeat the prince and the queen, let him understand the existence of true love, and let him finally get a happy ending. Ending all beautiful things in absolute perfection, so good that they are almost impeccable, is the most typical feature of fairy tales.
The three forces started a battle for the same purpose, and the methods adopted were also clear and visible. The princes rely on threats, deception, and poisoning to achieve their goals. The dark queens rely on the terrible desire to imitate and manipulate everything to seize the goal, and the love-driven shop boy is equally unarmed and without any magical powers. Either discover the Meteor Girl first, or save the Meteor Girl in a crisis, or receive help and rescue again and again on the verge of death. This kind of assistance, the screenwriter will never put the prince and queen on the body, because it is not in line with people's inner emotional consciousness: in our hearts the watershed between justice and evil is clear and clear, so the dark side is never allowed to be obtained only by the righteous people. The kind relief received. Just imagine, if the movie itself arranges a scene in which XX’s supernatural power helps the Dark Lady get the heart of the Meteor Girl, I’m afraid the whole movie will be completely rejected or rejected. In fact, the movie itself may still be logical, just as acceptance The viewers of the audience cannot accept the tragic ending of evil over justice in a fictional fairy tale. In fact, similar scenes may exist in reality, and they are never allowed to tarnish the idealized world in their hearts.
The story also tries to narrate the importance of family affection to life. When the shop boy is in crisis and cannot save himself, his mother becomes an important representative of the rescuer. You can't help but discover when you watch the movie. It was the power of maternal love that allowed her child to save her true love-Meteor Girl-from being slaughtered. It was also the identity of a mother that made him the king of a country. However, such a great feeling is not as romantic and strong as love is expressed in the story. It only shines out of crisis, or only has a substantial effect, without any ostentation, or even nothingness.
Love is the main theme of the whole story. There are 4 so-called loves in the whole movie. Shop boy’s parents’ encounter when they were young (as a story, without emphasis on narration), shop boy obsessed with the impulsive love of the girl next door, the love between the girl next door and the arrogant gentleman, and the sincere love between the shop boy and the meteor girl in adversity and symbiosis. Of course, the most important thing in the ending is the emotion of the last one. From acquaintance to fall in love with each other, each process has been specifically narrated. This seems to be an affirmation of the concept of love. True love should not be rashly impulsive, nor should it be determined by material temptations. It requires a common experience, mutual understanding and perception. True love will shine brightly like a shooting star! !
"Stardust" is definitely a work that narrates the emotions of fairy tales in a macroscopic manner. It fully displays all related and idealized emotional pursuits in people's hearts in the same story. The excitement and happiness generated after the end of the play are all The excitement and satisfaction caused by a perfect ending!

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Stardust quotes

  • Septimus: [briefing his men] Now remember Captain Shakespeare has a fearsome reputation.

    [cuts to scenes of Captain Shakespeare painting a heart on his face and then dancing to the Can Can, dressed in a frock and a feather boa, intertwined with scenes of Septimus's men attacking Shakespeare's crew only to get overpowered]

    Septimus: [enters the cabin and sees the Captain in drag] What the hell is this?

  • Yvaine: You know when I said I knew little about love? That wasn't true. I know a lot about love. I've seen it, centuries and centuries of it, and it was the only thing that made watching your world bearable. All those wars. Pain, lies, hate... It made me want to turn away and never look down again. But when I see the way that mankind loves... You could search to the furthest reaches of the universe and never find anything more beautiful. So yes, I know that love is unconditional. But I also know that it can be unpredictable, unexpected, uncontrollable, unbearable and strangely easy to mistake for loathing, and... What I'm trying to say, Tristan is... I think I love you. Is this love, Tristan? I never imagined I'd know it for myself. My heart... It feels like my chest can barely contain it. Like it's trying to escape because it doesn't belong to me any more. It belongs to you. And if you wanted it, I'd wish for nothing in exchange - no gifts. No goods. No demonstrations of devotion. Nothing but knowing you loved me too. Just your heart, in exchange for mine.