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<\/a><\/p>\nNow for the notes. The beginning, I think, is rather close to a thriller. The princess, a presumptive heir of some unimportant European kingdom, is on a European tour. Sitting, standing, & walking, waiting on people, waving vaguely, shaking hands\u2013giving the economic progress speech here & the youth is our future speech there, accepting this gift but not that, & telling the press about her hopes for friendship & closer connections between all nations &, of course, world peace\u2026<\/p>\n
Behind the scenes, she is screaming mad. She\u2019s treated like a robot, but with all the pretense of ceremony.\u00a0The people in charge of this young girl habitually drug her\u2013for her own good, no doubt, so that she\u2019ll rest & then do her job. The inhumanity is startling, to say the least.\u00a0There is, too, a similarly startling element to the plot\u2013the royal answer to the trouble is to send men in black to hunt the princes &, when they find her, capture her.\u00a0That is some part of politics, perhaps there is nothing to be done to avoid it. Liberation is difficult & that means that it is not quite what people wish\u2013I suppose lots of us now would rather have an escape from politics, not just the kids of prominent politicians\u2026<\/p>\n
So this is when she enters into the drug-induced dream-like state of freedom. What\u2019s it like? It\u2019s filmed shot-for-shot exactly like a prison escape: Out on the exterior of a tall building, watching for the guards, make a run for it down a corridor, followed by some as-yet-unsuspecting guard, wait for the guy to end his watch, then sneak in the truck with the supplies, & you\u2019re home-free.<\/p>\n
Well, I should end here\u2013if you like to talk about the romance & what it might mean to look at our vulgar modern world with wonder, sure, we can do that. In my experience, women love this movie far more than men. I\u2019ll also say this, when my young miss saw that the princess wanted a short modern haircut, she began to disbelieve. That\u2019s what Say it ain\u2019t so, Joe!<\/em> looks like for women\u2026<\/p>\n Finally, this was written by Communist Donald Trumbo. It’s pretty good writing, but I am not displeased that for a long time he had his work expropriated…<\/p>\n