ROMAN HOLIDAY (1953) A friend rang me up last week and over the conversation, he said that he was holidaying in Europe this summer. Amongst the cities he was visiting in Europe, one was Rome, and the Hollywood buff as I am, the first words came to my mind was Roman Holiday. Roman Holiday (1953) is a bittersweet romance between a princess and a journalist, lasting only for a day. This one film you watch umpteen times, but you will never get enough of it. I bet you will fall in love with this Princess Anne (Audrey Hepburn). Love has many shades but with her, it is a sublime one. This was Audrey's first film, and how she sparkled. Petite, captivating, pensive, polite, gracious, charming, delightful, genial, courteous - one runs out of adjectives to describe Audrey Hepburn in this film. She is alternately majestic and naïve. Her sad expression as she stands, watching the man she loves and then turn her head to walk away from him is an absolute contrast to the marvelous ecstasy in her eyes earlier when she realizes she loves him. …show more content…
Yes, he walks away from her finally, restraining himself with dignity. If the love had a happy ending he would become prince of the princess, but no, you realize that the man of his stature could have done no less than restraining himself. Roman Holiday is a blend of being romantic but the sweetness will not make you diabetic, its humorous but not slapstick, it is tender like a tulip but does not
We can also see her characterization through the author?s direct statement. When she shows her face to the public for the first time she since she was punished, the author commented that the people who expect to see her ?dimmed and obscured by a disastrous cloud?, find her more gorgeous, graceful and ladylike than she have ever been instead (49).
The sincerity of Claudio's love is thrown into question by the fact that his 'soft and delicate desires,/ All prompting him how fair young Hero is, are not confessed until he has ascertained that she will bring her husband a fortune.
The composition of this painting forces the eye to the woman, and specifically to her face. Although the white wedding dress is large and takes up most of the woman’s figure, the white contrasts with her face and dark hair, forcing the viewer to look more closely into the woman’s face. She smokes a cigarette and rests her chin on her hands. She does not appear to be a very young woman and her eyes are cast down and seem sad. In general, her face appears to show a sense of disillusionment with life and specifically with her own life. Although this is apparently her wedding day, she does not seem to be happy.
she was of pure and perfect form and after he kisses her, his ideal perfect
Although she describes such a relationship as being unequal and wrong, she does make points on how a man and woman come to fall in love. Simone mentions that “Through love, woman’s face, the curves of her body, her childhood memories, her former tears, her gowns, her accustomed ways, her universe, everything she is, all that belongs to her, escape contingency and become essential” (de Beauvoir 647). She then continues speaking about men stating, “This transforming power of love explains why it is that men of prestige who know how to flatter feminine vanity will arouse passionate attachments even if they are quite lacking in physical charm” (de Beauvoir 647). In both cases, the qualities- physical and nonphysical- of the man and woman are expressed in a loving relationship. The man uses his charm to impress the woman and the woman gives her all in order to catch the man’s attention. Although they are completely different, qualities of man and woman must be displayed for one to decide whether they love the person or
When first approaching this work, one feels immediately attracted to its sense of wonder and awe. The bright colors used in the sun draws a viewer in, but the astonishment, fascination, and emotion depicted in the expression on the young woman keeps them intrigued in the painting. It reaches out to those who have worked hard in their life and who look forward to a better future. Even a small event such as a song of a lark gives them hope that there will be a better tomorrow, a thought that can be seen though the countenance by this girl. Although just a collection of oils on a canvas, she is someone who reaches out to people and inspires them to appreciate the small things that, even if only for a short moment, can make the road ahead seem brighter.
The speaker uses metaphors to describe his mistress’ eyes to being like the sun; her lips being red as coral; cheeks like roses; breast white as snow; and her voices sounding like music. In the first few lines of the sonnet, the speaker view and tells of his mistress as being ugly, as if he was not attracted to her. He give...
Her lover made a bed of flowers for her (vv. 19-21) and many passers-by still laugh at the view (vv. 22-24), probably because it is evident what the place was used for and because of the abundance of flowers. The passers-by might guess the placement of her head from the roses (vv. 25-27). The poem reveals little about the girl, though she gets characterised through the way she speaks about her experiences. Even less is told about the man. The girl never addresses him directly; she just talks about him as her beloved (v. 12) in third person. He seems to be apt at preparing their bed and his choice of roses, a symbol of love, for her head could be interpreted as a display of affection. It is possible that he is of higher standing and that their relationship is forbidden for this reason. Another reason for their secret meeting outdoors might be their unmarried
Princess films are beloved classics that range from the beloved Disney franchise, to live action films such as the Princess Diaries, to historical tales as those seen is polish films. No matter what the format or genre these films typically contain recurring scenes. The film The Princess Bride offers a new comedic approach to this classic genre. While scholars have explored how princess films are able to succeed through the use ideas such as historical nostalgia or nationalism, The Princess Bride succeeds by using nostalgia in a unique way. Through the use of comedic devices such as mistaken identity, absurdity, and good old-fashioned slapstick comedy, The Princess Bride is able to parody the traditional princess film. In doing so it is able
Why does she love him? Qu’est-ce que? What is it? She sees him as a man, yet she knows that the future will remember him as an artist. How will he capture them? Of which facets of his art will they philosophize rapturously? Will it be the way his clean and vivid images seal themselves into the mind in a manner that is almost mathematical? Is it the subconscious sense of eroticism that manages to pervade all of his work even through the innocent ...
She has a "natural elegance" and a mixture of "innocence and crudity," and yet, as seen in her response, her character proves to go beyond the boundaries of this character type of the natural beauty (1564 and 1574)."
Her stature is nothing but perfection. Whenever she was around people, people couldn’t help but feel her presence, “her beauty shone out, and made a halo of misfortune and ignominy in which she was
This poem speaks of a love that is truer than denoting a woman's physical perfection or her "angelic voice." As those traits are all ones that will fade with time, Shakespeare exclaims his true love by revealing her personality traits that caused his love. Shakespeare suggests that the eyes of the woman he loves are not twinkling like the sun: "My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun" (1). Her hair is compared to a wire: "If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head" (3). These negative comparisons may sound almost unloving, however, Shakespeare proves that the mistress outdistances any goddess. This shows that the poet appreciates her human beauties unlike a Petrarchan sonnet that stresses a woman's cheek as red a rose or her face white as snow. Straying away from the dazzling rhetoric, this Shakespearean poem projects a humane and friendly impression and elicits laughter while expressing a truer love. A Petrarchan sonnet states that love must never change; this poem offers a more genuine expression of love by describing a natural woman.
Therefore she is a sympathetic character, but she puts herself before him. “And yet she had loved him--sometimes. Often she had not. What did it matter! What could love, the unsolved mystery, count for in the face of this possession of self-assertion which she suddenly recognized as the strongest impulse of her being!”
This description is not of lustrous beauty, but of the true love he felt for her. This statement and