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[...] ads. Then she reviews Vampire Knight. Very funny all around. And illustrated with an image from Romancing the Stone, one of my movie faves! [...]

]]> By: Johanna http://comicsworthreading.com/2006/08/30/romancing-the-stone/comment-page-1/#comment-32853 Johanna Thu, 31 Aug 2006 12:14:36 +0000 http://comicsworthreading.com/2006/08/30/romancing-the-stone/#comment-32853 I always liked the idea in Jewel that someone would pretend to be the messiah of their culture by hiring a special effects firm.

Yes, the screenwriter for RtS died in a car accident after that movie, sadly.

Your Mary Sue comments make me think of American Dreamer, which handles the plot even more explicitly, with a fan getting amnesia and literally thinking she’s the main character of a favorite book series.

]]> By: Jim Kosmicki http://comicsworthreading.com/2006/08/30/romancing-the-stone/comment-page-1/#comment-32852 Jim Kosmicki Thu, 31 Aug 2006 12:09:00 +0000 http://comicsworthreading.com/2006/08/30/romancing-the-stone/#comment-32852 loved Romancing the Stone — but I remember being pretty disappointed by Jewel. Then I caught it on cable recently and it’s an interesting movie for right now, seeing how it deals with Westerners unable to understand Arabic religious culture and blowing things up good instead of promoting peaceful solutions instead. I still think I would like it more if it didn’t try to shoehorn in the characters and story arc from Romancing — this movie really feels like an unrelated script that was revised into a sequel by simply adding in the original characters on top. Didn’t the original writer for Romancing die suddenly right after the first one? maybe that explains it.

and in an unrelated note, I’ve used Romancing as an example that Mary Sue stories don’t HAVE to be bad — because this is pretty clearly a meta-Mary Sue in that it’s by a screenwriter putting her Mary Sue character into a plot where the character becomes her own Mary Sue.

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