Nuovo Cinema Paradiso - the movie
This got to be one of my most favourite movie.
"Once...a king gave a feast for the loveliest princesses in the realm.
Now, a soldier who was standing guard saw the king's daughter go by.
She was the most beautiful of all and he fell instantly in love.
But what is a simple soldier next to the daughter of a king?
At last he succeeded in meeting her, and he told her he could no longer live without her.
The princess was so taken by the depth of his feeling that she said to the soldier,
"If you can wait for 100 days and 100 nights under my balcony, at the end of it I shall be yours."
With that the soldier went and waited one day... two days... then ten... then twenty.
Each evening the princess looked out, and he never moved!
In rain, in wind, in snow, he was always there!
Birds shat on his head, bees stung him- but he didn't budge.
At the end of ninety nights he had become all dry, all white.
Tears streamed from his eyes.
He couldn't hold them back.
He didn't even have the strength to sleep.
And all that time, the princess watched him.
At long last, it was the 99th night... and the soldier stood up, took his chair and left."
posted by ça va pas la tête @ 5:27:00 PM
8 Comments:
So why did he leave after so much time of waiting?
He should have waited for one more day.
Maybe because he realised anybody who asked him to do such ridiculous thing wasn't worth the effort.
[Later in the movie, Toto has learned a bit more about life, and presents his interpretation of the story's ending.]
In one more night, the princess would have been his. But she also could not possibly have kept her promise. And it would have been terrible. He would have died. This way, however, at least for 99 days, he was living under the illusion that she was there, waiting for him.
Musang: u r missing the whole point of the story!
Straight people -shakes head- Gay men would've had sex from Day 1 already lah.
Hey, he must have realized after 99 days that if she really loved him, she would have broken the damned torturous wait.
Paul
Jay: hahahaha *hugs*
Paul: I think you are really lomantic!
Joshphase: Thanks for dropping by. I hope you are entertained by my pretty talk!
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