happily ever after

So, last night I watched Roger and Hammerstein's Cinderella, with Leslie Ann Warren as Cinderella.  While I enjoy the music and it brings me back to my childhood (most likely) I did notice yet again what Barbara Streisand talks about in the movie "The Mirror has 2 faces" which I watch the beginning and end of (I don't like the middle so much...)

Barbara's character is a Professor of Romantic Literature and the MMC (Male Main Character) sits in on one of her lectures at one point.  She is talking about her sister's recent wedding and romantic archetypes...and she says something like this...
"The end all and be all of romantic love is..." and asks her students what they think.  After a series of comical answers from her students she answers her own question "Marriage."
"This thing that we call a wedding ceremony is really the final scene of the fairy tale. They never tell you what happens after. They never tell you that Cinderella drove the Prince crazy with her obsessive need to clean the castle, cause she missed her day job, right?


"I heard a quote somewhere that said, being in love is like hearing Puccini in your head... So when my date takes me home and kisses me good night, if I don't hear the philharmonic in my head, I dump him."

But it's true.  The movie ends as the lovers are reunited, and you are led to the door outside the church where they are to be married and that is it....that is the end.

Barbara goes on to say in the movie, "So why do we fall in love, when it can have such a short shelf life and be devastatingly painful?" again the students give their thoughts.... and Barbara answers, "Those are all great answers but too intellectual for me...I think that we fall in love, because while it last....it feels fucking great.."

In someways, I'm not certain where I am going with this post.  But I am putting it out there.  Maybe I just wanted to share some of her Pity quotes from the movie.  It is full of such great one-liners and three-liners (you know).  But there is my thought.  Maybe it is just me becoming romantically morose...I don't know.

I'll leave it at that.