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in reply to a message by Nanaea
It was meant to be more innocent than it sounded I guess *smiles*
I did not mean to sound as if I am terrible experienced in such matters, for that I am not.
I just wanted to point out how different women are portraited in poetic French movies compared to poetic scandinavian movies.
In French poetic movies women tend to be innocent but lethal to the men who meet them. Like fire which consumes in passion what it touches.
e.g Jules and Jim
In scandinavian poetic movies women tend to be gentle and kind.
Like sunshine which makes the small, but important things grow stronger and easier to believe in.
e.g. Det skallede spøgelse (the bald ghost)
I am of course speaking in general terms now, since examples of the opposite could be found among both French and Scandinavian poetic movies.
I did not mean to sound as if I am terrible experienced in such matters, for that I am not.
I just wanted to point out how different women are portraited in poetic French movies compared to poetic scandinavian movies.
In French poetic movies women tend to be innocent but lethal to the men who meet them. Like fire which consumes in passion what it touches.
e.g Jules and Jim
In scandinavian poetic movies women tend to be gentle and kind.
Like sunshine which makes the small, but important things grow stronger and easier to believe in.
e.g. Det skallede spøgelse (the bald ghost)
I am of course speaking in general terms now, since examples of the opposite could be found among both French and Scandinavian poetic movies.
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Selwyn
Just in the movies? *raised eyebrow*.
As a student (and a voracious reader), I've found a number of interesting differences between the "Romantic" regions (Spain, France, Italy, Portugal, Greece, Latin America , etc.) and the "Northern" regions (Scandinavia, Finland, Northern Russia, Siberia, Alaska, Northern Canada, etc.).
There's a story by Susan Cooper based on an actual folktale from (I think) the British Isles about a man who falls in love with a woman who turns out to be a selkie (a sealwoman). Perhaps Nanaea can locate the title of the book (for it escapes me right now (Here, Title! Here, Title!) *beckoning whisles*).
Phyllis (aka Sidhe Uaine or Gaia Euphoria)
Just in the movies? *raised eyebrow*.
As a student (and a voracious reader), I've found a number of interesting differences between the "Romantic" regions (Spain, France, Italy, Portugal, Greece, Latin America , etc.) and the "Northern" regions (Scandinavia, Finland, Northern Russia, Siberia, Alaska, Northern Canada, etc.).
There's a story by Susan Cooper based on an actual folktale from (I think) the British Isles about a man who falls in love with a woman who turns out to be a selkie (a sealwoman). Perhaps Nanaea can locate the title of the book (for it escapes me right now (Here, Title! Here, Title!) *beckoning whisles*).
Phyllis (aka Sidhe Uaine or Gaia Euphoria)
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I admit it :)
It is not only in the movies. Not that French and scandinavians are different people. In the end we are all humans alike to each other in many ways. Yet, mens romantic dreams of women in the northern regions seem to differ from the romantic dreams of women only a little further south in France. Perhaps it is the different ways of the light the two places as a friend suggest once we considered the matter.
It is not only in the movies. Not that French and scandinavians are different people. In the end we are all humans alike to each other in many ways. Yet, mens romantic dreams of women in the northern regions seem to differ from the romantic dreams of women only a little further south in France. Perhaps it is the different ways of the light the two places as a friend suggest once we considered the matter.
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