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Originally posted by silver_tearsI'm gonna steal this and share it where I can. 🙂
YouTube videostill the best thing on youtube.
My favorite romance of any film is between the characters Achilles and Briseis from Wolfgang Peterson's Troy.
At the beginning he has to opportunity to take advantage of her, yet he doesn't. Instead provides her with a sense of security, because he isn't a brutal person, just misguided.
"You don't need to fear me girl. You're the only Trojan who can say that."
He fights to defend her, and listens to her reason, when he just as easily could have gone on a killing spree after Aggememnon took her hostage.
Briseis is awed by his intellect, "I thought you were a dumb brute, I could have forgiven a dumb brute." Later he did save her from being branded and raped. It all comes together when she is just about to kll him and he tells her to do it. She knows he's a killer, she knows he is killing the soldiers who are defending her country...yet her passion overcomes her resolve, passion created from her lust, awe and the sense of security he provided her.