{"id":2164,"date":"2006-06-30T13:31:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-30T17:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/?p=2164"},"modified":"2015-07-17T08:06:25","modified_gmt":"2015-07-17T12:06:25","slug":"the-ur-fairy-tale-or-putrid-sexual-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2006\/06\/30\/the-ur-fairy-tale-or-putrid-sexual-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ur-Fairy Tale, or, Putrid Sexual Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Where can you find a girl that nurses a unicorn, a dragon that speaks like a stereotyped Chinese and an evil guy named [just in case you missed that he was evil] Coeur de Noir or Blackheart? It&#39;s all in the early draft of Legend, that overstuffed 1984 fantasy train wreck in which Tim Curry is the best thing and, shuddersomely enough, Tom Cruise without pants is <strong>NOT<\/strong> the worst.<\/p>\n<p>The Loremistress has so obligingly given me a link to my favorite draft script of all time, that of 1984&#39;s Legend.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div align=\"left\" class=\"commentText\">&quot;Your wish is my command. \ud83d\ude09 Behold the early script for Legend!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hundland.com\/scripts\/LegendOfDarkness.txt\">http:\/\/www.hundland.com\/scripts\/LegendOf<wbr \/>Darkness.txt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Enjoy!<br \/>The Rampant Bicyclist&quot;<\/p>\n<p>I don&#39;t even know where to begin with this one. Besides being 400 hours long, it&#39;s also a slag heap of cliches that are so overworn that they turn into stereotypes. And the sexual politics are <strong>PUTRID.<\/strong> Lili, the princess, is seen as a good character only when she is a pure, innocent virgin. The appearance of her sexuality [in a fascinating transformation and rape scene with the Baron, a precursor to Darkness] coincides with her turn toward evil. The revulsion towards women as active, sexual, desiring individuals just emanates from the page.<\/p>\n<p>Go read it!<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where can you find a girl that nurses a unicorn, a dragon that speaks like a stereotyped Chinese and an evil guy named [just in case you missed that he was evil] Coeur de Noir or Blackheart? It&#39;s all in the early draft of Legend, that overstuffed 1984 fantasy train wreck in which Tim Curry&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2006\/06\/30\/the-ur-fairy-tale-or-putrid-sexual-politics\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Ur-Fairy Tale, or, Putrid Sexual Politics<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[664,662],"class_list":["post-2164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-misogyny","tag-sexist-stereotypes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2164"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5496,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2164\/revisions\/5496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}