The Black Swan was a swashbuckler from WWII era. I watched most of this movie this morning. It’s a romance basically. It is also evidence of just how much times have changed!I entered the story right about the time that Jamie Waring (played by Tyrone Power) was trying to force a kiss on Lady Margaret Denby (played by a very young Maureen O’Hara). She bit him, so he slapped her hard enough to knock her unconscious. Then he tossed her over his shoulder and was going who-knows-where, but ran into Captain Morgan (“we may never reach dry land”) and ended up throwing Lady Margaret on the floor. He wasn’t a very tall hero, but it probably kept her unconscious.
Lady Margaret was engaged to a curly-haired guy who didn’t throw her on the floor one single time in the movie, yet she still ended up with Jamie Boy, Jamie Boy, Jamie Boy. That was his requirement and among the last lines of the movie. After she turned him down a number of times, he insisted that he wouldn’t have her again unless she called him Jamie Boy not once, but three times. The heroine in this romance was supposed to be a hell-cat. Hmm... I was looking at it more from the standpoint of how not to write a romance. Times have sure changed.
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ReplyDeleteI remember watching this with my mother when I was a child and she loved it - I loved the costumes! Maureen O'Hara was always the 'firebrand' in these films.
ReplyDeleteMy mother too, so I got to watch a lot of the old movies. There's quiet a few of her shows I watch when they are on TV.
ReplyDeleteSounds like the kind of guy you presscharges against.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad women now take Tae Kwon (a?) Do and kick boxing...no woman these days would take that treatment. Of course, her biting him was good. She had the right idea, she just had to follow through with a kick to the "round tables" for him to get the message.
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I love pirate movies too. And of course the captain is going to treat his captive wench like that. He's got to show he's the Boss..to his men as well as her...but still.
That did seem a little extreme and for her to fall in love with him anyway?
Back then I guess it made sense.
Not now though.
*whew!*
Wow that one sounds cavemannish to say the least. I love old movies too. Watched Sabrina with Bogie and Hepburn last night. I couldn't resist.
ReplyDeleteI like that old version of Sabrina better... and I enjoyed the first too.
ReplyDeleteMichele - I was watching The Notebook again. If I recall, you didn't like that story. Anyway, the thing that struck me is that the heroine slaps the hero silly quite a few times (he doesn't get knocked unconscious though). I guess from that standpoint times haven't changed! But for the most part, romance readers won't put up with a hero that hit a herione into submission. Well, unless it's staged in a BDSM erotic romance.
" Well, unless it's staged in a BDSM erotic romance. ""
ReplyDeleteLOL, Annalee! Even for that, I don't think it is much fun when one of the partners is unconcious....kind of loses the momentum... *grin*
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