Writer's Block: My Idea of Romance

[windinthemaples]

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There is a moment in the movie First Knight where Guinevere is safely returned to Camelot after surviving a harrowing kidnapping. She is betrothed to King Arthur, I believe, at the time and their relationship has been polite and considerate, if a bit tentative and newborn. The shot is down a long aisle to a church altar where the King is kneeling in prayer. Guinevere enters the church and runs down the aisle to him, her cloak billowing in slow-motion grace behind her until she and the King meet and he scoops her up and presses her close. Maybe they speak, maybe they don't, but seeing her race towards him without any concern for queenly decorum, seeing him praying for her safe return, lights something in my heart every time.

(I mourn the rest of the movie, when that damned Lancelot gets in the way and ruins everything.)

What a feeling, that homecoming to strong arms, that rushing towards the one you realize you love.

ETA: I hadn't seen the scene in years. Here it is, the first forty seconds of the video.

Comments

[mermaiden.livejournal.com]

Oh, I haven't seen First Knight in so long...what a happy reminder~ :) I'd totally not even thought of that before!

[suzanna-o.livejournal.com]

I remember that moment too. :)

[radshaun.livejournal.com]

Okay, so I just spent the last 30 minutes writing a post about this, but then LJ ate it. But one scene really stands out in my head. It's the scene from The English Patient where Almasy is carrying Katharine through desert after her husband crashed the plane, and he sees that she's wearing the thimble. Then she says something to the effect of, "Of course I'm wearing it, you idiot, I've always worn it, I've always loved you."

That scene has always struck me as so beautiful and amazing and how we never see the things that are right in front of our faces until it's too late.