I saw a trailer for Tristan and Isolde last night, and at first I was very excited. I took a class on Tristan and Isolde in college. I didn’t even know they were making a movie. “Cool!” I thought. Then I saw the rest of the trailer. Oh, it could not look more like trash. Same crappy period-piece melodramatic love story plotline you see in every one of these kinds of movies that you didn’t even like the first time around. I probably still end up seeing it, because I HAVE to see something like this, but I’m not looking forward to it anymore.
Fucking up the classics, one story at a time
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I know how you feel, but seriously, isn’t that the basic premise for Tristan and Isolde anyway? It’s the tragic love story theme. Although one of the first love stories, but still. It’s all love love love.
Well, we spent quite a lot of time reading all the different versions of the story from all of its different origins, and the one common theme about the story was the idea of Love as suffering. These are two people who don’t want to be together, know in their best interests that they shouldn’t be together, and yet can’t stand to NOT be together. Isolde has her virtue, Tristan has his loyalty to Mark, and yet they piss it all away to be together.
In the trailer they go on about how “before Romeo & Juliet there was Tristan and Isolde”. Well, here’s the problem: The trailer I’m watching is for Romeo & Juliet. That’s the more Romantic version of love than the Medieval idea. Why even make the movie if you are going to cheapen what makes it interesting?
Well, the answer to that is that they want to make money, not make a great film. I don’t really see them doing either though…