Atreyu, warrior princess.
Apr 14th, 2009 by Kate
I watched “The Never Ending Story” with Toot this past weekend. Initially, she was disinterested - what with the main character being a boy and all. I told her there was an EMPRESS and ADVENTURE and A DRAGON - this won her interest, provisionally at least, so she settled on my lap. We got to the Ivory Tower and Atreyu’s first appearance and she was suddenly riveted.
Who was that girl? Why did she have that pretty necklace? Why are those snakes eating each other?
I explained the ouborous and left the gender identifiers alone.
We happily watched the rest of the movie, pausing occasionally to talk about why that girl’s horse got stuck in the mud, why that girl was sad and would that wolf eat the girl? Today she asked if we could watch “that movie about the girl with the white horse” again. I’m pretty comfortable with this interpretation of the narrative. Maybe it’s time to bust out Zena: Season 1. (Toot is already a Buffy fan.)
