I think I've shared this classic with you before, but just in case I haven't . . . . it underlines the ways in which the movies use Padme as a (poorly thought out) plot device: "Did Inadequate Women’s Healthcare Destroy Star Wars’ Old Republic?"
"He seriously spends two hours of the movie freaking out about his wife’s uterus, and hypes himself up so much that he gets to the point of slaughtering tiny tots in a Jedi temple. All because he can’t think of another way to save Padme from reproductive health complications.
Why didn’t they just go to a goddamned obstetrician-gynecologist?"
"The lady herself had nothing to do with his actual valor, was not present for any of his adventures, and often wasn’t even the knight’s wife or love interest; instead, it was the idealized distant vision of her that became, supposedly, the source of the knight’s strength." For example, Dulcinea in "Don Quixote", which is an extended parody of the chivalric tradition.
And there are exceptions to this rule- e.g. Britomart in Spenser's "Fairie Queene", who is a very capable protagonist figure. From a story that has never been adapted for film...
True! There are certainly exceptions. That's a good example of one. And why have we never had a movie adaptation, in all this time, I wonder? They even made a weird Green Knight movie; why not this?
How timely. I've just started introducing Star Wars to my 7-year-old, and it reminded me of my decades-long rant about how they did Padme dirty.
I think I've shared this classic with you before, but just in case I haven't . . . . it underlines the ways in which the movies use Padme as a (poorly thought out) plot device: "Did Inadequate Women’s Healthcare Destroy Star Wars’ Old Republic?"
https://www.vice.com/en/article/womens-healthcare-star-wars/
"He seriously spends two hours of the movie freaking out about his wife’s uterus, and hypes himself up so much that he gets to the point of slaughtering tiny tots in a Jedi temple. All because he can’t think of another way to save Padme from reproductive health complications.
Why didn’t they just go to a goddamned obstetrician-gynecologist?"
"The lady herself had nothing to do with his actual valor, was not present for any of his adventures, and often wasn’t even the knight’s wife or love interest; instead, it was the idealized distant vision of her that became, supposedly, the source of the knight’s strength." For example, Dulcinea in "Don Quixote", which is an extended parody of the chivalric tradition.
And there are exceptions to this rule- e.g. Britomart in Spenser's "Fairie Queene", who is a very capable protagonist figure. From a story that has never been adapted for film...
True! There are certainly exceptions. That's a good example of one. And why have we never had a movie adaptation, in all this time, I wonder? They even made a weird Green Knight movie; why not this?
I guess because it’s a poem and not a story. Hollywood does not get poetry.