В связи с тем, что ни спойлеры сценаристов, ни собственные прогнозы насчёт Бэлль не радуют позитивом, и вообще всё плохо - делюсь прекрасным. Длинный пост про Бэлль. Прекрасный и длинный пост-рассуждение про Бэлль. Как это и должно быть.
Обязательно каждый день читать Китсису и Хоровицу перед сном, сценаристам всем по разу, Эспенсон на заметку. Всем остальным - по желанию.
Мне грустно и легко; печаль моя светла;
Печаль моя полна тобою,
Тобой, одной тобой…Quiet as a Belle by
Fyre (один из самых известных авторов по OUAT)Since ‘Broken’ aired, there has been a lot of discussion flying about the place, and something I have seen repeated several times is that Belle is ‘passive’. Perhaps she doesn’t go on a rampage with flaming broomsticks. Perhaps she doesn’t threaten to punch people in the face. Perhaps she isn’t openly aggressive and forthright.
Perhaps that’s because that’s not who she is. Just because she does not fight or shout or rage in fury does not mean that she is passive in any way, shape or form.
целиком читать под катом,а здесь будет отрывок из моей любимой части, потому что я никогда об этой сцене не думала с этой стороны:
“No. NO. Promise me you won’t kill her and we can be together.”
This is a significant moment and anyone who says she is being passive need to take a good, hard look at it. So few people offer him anything. When they come to him with a deal in mind, they know what they want, but they never, ever, ever offer what he wants. This time, this litte slip of a thing offers the one thing he wants, which is all she has to save the woman who hurt her more than anyone. All she has is herself and her love for him, and she sets that down as her ultimatum. She knows she’s the one person who can save Regina’s life, and she lays everything she has on the line to make sure that no one is killed because of her. Once more, her life, her happiness, is the price she’s willing to risk to save the life of someone who would have killed her. This is the woman who faced a known monster, someone her father referred to as a Beast, and told him that she would go with him, if he would save her family. When her father and her fiance both tried to intercede, this is the woman who turned to face these men who would control her and told them “No one decides my fate but me”. She chose to act, when her father would have let his stronghold fall rather than let her go. She chose to defy the men who had and would control her life, to save them all.
For all that Gaston waved his sword and her father waved his gold, it was this woman’s calm words that saved her people. And what makes it all the more impressive is the fact that she acknowledges that she was scared: “Do the brave thing and hope bravery will follow”. She didn’t know what her fate would be. She didn’t know how terrible Rumpelstiltskin might be, but she promised forever all the same.
She was given just cause to be afraid at first. Everyone knew Rumpelstiltskin’s reputation, and no doubt, he was the monster in the stories parents told their children. She was cast into a dungeon and when her new Master commanded her, when he told her she would have to “skin the children he hunted”, you can see that fear. Bravery is not a lack of fear. It’s the courage to stand against what makes you scared, and that is what she does.
That first quip he makes is the first hint that there may be something beneath his sharp exterior. She looks at him with new eyes in that moment: he might be more than a monster. But let’s look at that scene: the moment he makes a jest, the first moment he teases her and pokes fun at her fear, is the moment she stops being truly afraid of him. She puts aside the stories and ignores what her eyes are telling her, and instead listens to him. Within the space of a heartbeat, she’s apologising for breaking crockery, speaking to him directly.
The next time we see them, she is no longer servile or humbly pouring tea or being stammeringly compliant. Instead, she’s speaking to him freely, asking him questions about himself. There’s no fear there, and it’s clear he’s no longer treating her as a servant because he asks her “what are you doing?”. She may be bound to him, but she chooses to do what she wants to do. She doesn’t wait for him to give permission or ask him. And more significantly, “we should let some light in”. We. She considers them equals, even though he is the powerful Rumpelstiltskin, and he doesn’t contradict her.
As their relationship progresses, she’s certainly far from passive: she speaks freely to him, she asks him of his past, she smiles when he tries to push her away. She’s the one stepping into his closed-off little world and trying to draw him back out. She sees the man he was behind the mask of the Dark One. She sees his sadness when he talks of his child, and his loneliness. When he is around her, he’s no longer the villainous imp but a man who talks and walks and acts just like any other man might. Of all the people in the forest, she sees him for what he is, rather than what people believe him to be. She sees him for the man behind the Dark One.
Even when he sets her free out of love for her, when she could go and do all the things she wished she could, she is faced with a choice. She knows “something evil has taken root in him”. She could just leave him, knowing that he would be alone, but knowing that “a kiss is enough”, she gives up her freedom once more to save the man she is coming to love.
She goes back to him, and even though it is probably grossly improper for a lady of her station to be so bold, she daringly kisses him. When he believes himself betrayed, rather than cowering, she faces him, and throws the truth back in his face. Even when he tosses her back into the dungeon, she’s not afraid of him. She never has been afraid of him, and that is what scares him.
Where others would cower and shy away, when he casts her out, she doesn’t go quietly into the night. She is direct and honest and forthright with him, and tells him that as much as he thinks he’s a monster, she knows that underneath it all, he’s a man and he’s afraid, and that’s what his whole existence boils down to.
Now, back to Storybrooke and her alleged passiveness in the finale and the premier.
When her memories return, she has been in the company of a strange man for some time, a man who embraced her and told her he would protect her, even though she didn’t know who he was. And in an instant, she realises just who that strange man is and why he said those words to her. She goes to him, the man who cast her out, but who wept when he saw her face for the first time in decades, knowing that he loved her. Despite all he had said and done to her, she walked up to him, and said the words she never had a chance to say before: I love you.
There’s no hesitation, no qualms, no fear, no doubt. She knows she has to say these words to the man she never thought she’d see again. Like Rumpel, she probably knew that Regina was keeping her “to kill her at the right moment”.
Of course, then Rumpel makes cock-up number one, which is bringing back magic, but the moment he looks at her when it is done, when he still looks like a man, she could still believe it was all done to protect her, as he promised. For a moment, she can believe that she is - as he says - his darling Belle. When he discovers the truth of her fate, however, she is the one to put her foot down and say no. She will not have vengeance carried out in her name. She will not have blood spilled on her account.
“No. NO. Promise me you won’t kill her and we can be together.”
This is a significant moment and anyone who says she is being passive need to take a good, hard look at it. So few people offer him anything. When they come to him with a deal in mind, they know what they want, but they never, ever, ever offer what he wants. This time, this litte slip of a thing offers the one thing he wants, which is all she has to save the woman who hurt her more than anyone. All she has is herself and her love for him, and she sets that down as her ultimatum. She knows she’s the one person who can save Regina’s life, and she lays everything she has on the line to make sure that no one is killed because of her. Once more, her life, her happiness, is the price she’s willing to risk to save the life of someone who would have killed her.
Perhaps she doesn’t protect Regina with a sword or a torch or anything more than words, but words are Belle’s weapon of choice: I will go with you, no one decides my fate but me, all you’ll have is an empty heart and a chipped cup, promise me and we can be together.
The promise - you are more important to me than vengeance - is the key. This is where she believes that he no longer thinks “my power is more important to me than you”. This is why the fact he twists the words she used and sets the wraith after Regina is so much more heartbreaking for her. She believed he had changed not just because he said “I love you”, but because he promised that he chose her over cruelty and vengeance. What she doesn’t know is that her promise has some weight - he won’t EVER kill Regina, because she asked it of him.
In their later confrontation, when she’s proved wrong, she doesn’t do it with rage and fury. It’s with all the calm of that final night in the cell in the Dark Castle. “You lied to me”. The whole scene is an echo of that scene, only with much more pain on her side because she truly believed he was being the better man she knew he could be. She knows who he is, and she knows “You’re still a man who makes wrong choices.”
When Belle says “I thought you had changed”, it is based on all his words since she was reunited with him: I’ll protect you, I love you too, I promise. And he has changed. He has changed enough to acknowledge her love and his own feelings for her, but that’s like moving a beach a grain of sand at a time. One grain isn’t a beach, and she’s too shocked by his behaviour, by his lies, to acknowledge that at once.
His reaction certainly doesn’t help. Rumpelstiltskin isn’t inclined to listen to anyone’s opinion of him, but Belle - along with Baelfire - are the exceptions. When they speak to him with such directness and honesty, his first impulse is to lash out with words. And for once, for only the second time in the show, we see him apologise.
The echoes of the dungeon come back on him again: “My power is more important to me than you” goes unspoken in the line “what, in the hour you’ve known me?”. Once more, he’s choosing to be the cruel monster he is over the good man she knows is in there. And, unspoken, she leaves him with the echoes of her first departure: “all you’ll have is an empty heart and a chipped cup”.
He knows he’s done wrong. She knows that leaving him is the only way to make him understand that. She walked away from him before, but this time, when she knows he loves her, it takes all her strength to walk out the door. And when he apologises, when she hesitates, there’s a glimpse of the man he truly is beneath all the taunting and wickedness.
So she returns.
I don’t see this as passive at all. She goes for a long walk and thinks over what she knows of him. She knows the stories, but she also knows the man. When she returns to him, she says she was worried. He immediately believes it was concern about Regina or about the wraith. It goes unsaid, but she is worried for him, about what he is capable of and what he lets himself be when the Dark One runs amok.
She returns, and sees him at the wheel, “spinning to forget”, with her chipped cup by his side, a cup that he’s kept and cherished for 28 years. That’s evidence enough that he’s still the man she remembers. When he tells her she needs to leave, when he sets her free for the third time in two lifetimes, when he tells her he’s still a monster, she knows him for what he truly is. He’s trying to protect her from the monster he knows he can be.
She could walk away, leaving him to his dangerous obsessions and dark power, but when he says those words, she knows as she has always known “you’re not a monster”. She knows that he is cruel and terrible. She has experienced it more than once. But she has also seen the kind and gentle side, the side of him that is hidden beneath his curse. And “that’s why I have to stay.”
This isn’t about changing him. This is about letting him find himself once more. Rumpelstiltskin was a man once, an ordinary man, and we already know that he would have given up all his power if he had his son back. Baelfire was “the little speck of light that keeps him human”. Now, Belle is going to be the small flicker of light that serves the same purpose. She wants to bring light back into his dark and lonely life, despite knowing it will hurt and knowing it will be hard and he will try her patience, her spirit and her love. He’s already hurt her, but he has no one else, and she knows that’s why she has to stay.
This woman is a woman who will always, ALWAYS put another’s well-being before her own. She has given her life to save her family and friends and village. She gave her freedom to try and liberate the man she loved from a curse. She risked losing her true love to save the woman who would have murdered her. So she doesn’t wield a sword, or stride into battle, or go to war. She does something just as important: she wields compassion like a big old stick, even for the people who deserve it least and would hurt her most.
If that isn’t actively brave and heroic, I don’t know what is.
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Once upon a time in Storybrook,
Something wicked this way comes,
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Мысли вслух
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09.10.2012 в 04:16И вы согласны с мнением автора? Всё было бы совсем прекрасно, не позабудь автор о том, что самой главной целью в жизни Румпеля являются поиски сына, и для него цель однозначно оправдывает средства, и что, вообще-то, Румпель и Белль, и Бэя пока ещё ни разу не послушал, и главное, независимо от всего вышесказанного, power corrupts. Поэтому не всё так замечательно в том, что касается него. А про неё мы уже обсуждали, в том числе, и сегодня. Тут я с автором солидарна, хочу только добавить, что вполне вероятно, что окружающие по-прежнему будут видеть их отношения, как abusive, несмотря на то, что для Белль это не так.
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09.10.2012 в 17:30Время позднее или я с текстом опоздала?
И вы согласны с мнением автора?
Я очень хочу быть согласна с автором, но боюсь, что сериал внесёт свои коррективы. А пока это мой уголок с радугой, пони и котятками, где всё хорошо and nothing hurts . =)
Всё было бы совсем прекрасно, не позабудь автор о том, что самой главной целью в жизни Румпеля являются поиски сына, и для него цель однозначно оправдывает средства,
Ну здесь речь только о Бэлль. Потому что если мы будем говорить про Голда, то про него одновременно и много информации и мало, и лично я бы не рискнула выводить какие-нибудь теории, потому что очень много "если" и фактов, которых прийдётся брать за аксиому. А с нашей ящеркой ничего невозможно брать за аксиому. =))
хочу только добавить, что вполне вероятно, что окружающие по-прежнему будут видеть их отношения, как abusive, несмотря на то, что для Белль это не так.
Им так же придётся пережить, что окружающие будут думать про разницу в возрасте и что он ваще монстр. И ещё бог знает что.
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09.10.2012 в 17:51Про Румпеля начала придираться из-за этого: Even when he sets her free out of love for her / He's trying to ptotect her from the monster he knows he can be / we already know that he would have given up all his power if he had his son back. Это очень односторонний взгляд на вещи. Я не говорю, что это неправда, но у него определённо есть и другие, менее благородные, мотивы, а отказаться от власти - очень трудно, и я уверена (надеюсь), что мы с этим столкнёмся так, что ё-моё.
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09.10.2012 в 18:28Я этого тоже ожидаю. Мне Голд напоминал алкоголика в завязке, а теперь, спустя 28 лет, перед ним снова поставили бутылку. И ему, несмотря на все благие намерения, теперь будет куда сложнее завязать с зеленым змием, чем когда искушения у него не было. Ведь всяко легче было отдать "Бею" кинжал, когда в нем никакой силы не было. И плакать, обнимая Белль, когда не было возможности наслать на Регину какую-нибудь бяку. Только надеюсь, что Белль и Бей не окажутся в положении родственников алкоголика, которым лучше свалить с этой галеры, а не вовлекаться в созависимость.
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09.10.2012 в 18:53