I can t possibly be the only person that fantasized about being a princess after seeing
this movie. Where is my Genovia!? Grandma Queen come save me! The fact that I m not even joking.
This blush bunny presents The Princess Diaries. The movie came out in 2001 and it was the first
time many of us had even heard of Anne Hathaway. It was her breakout role. Little girls all over
the world would dream what it would be like to find out that they were royalty. Not this kind
of royalty. You know, the fictionalized happy go lucky type. Myself included. And I have to say
it s been years since I ve watched this movie and viewing it through the eyes of an adult,
I definitely caught a few things that I didn t notice when I was a kid. But just in case you
need a refresher or maybe you haven t had a chance to see it. Let me set the scene.
Mia Thermopolis is a 15 year old girl and we meet her when it s just another day in her
boring life. She comes from a single parent home. Hardly anyone knows that she exist and if they do
they don t care to get to know her. Lily is her only friend. She has a crush on the most popular
boy in school, and he of course has a girlfriend who just so happens to be her bully. No surprise
there. She has severe anxiety when it comes to public speaking and this is amplified by the
complete horror of talking in front of her debate class. She is not a natural born leader. She is
but a regular degular 15 year old girl simply trying to make it through today in order to see
tomorrow. So she thinks. Her grandmother is in town and she wants to talk to her. The grandmother
who until now she has never heard a peep from. So naturally Mia is a little irritated like
where you come from? Welp, turns out she wants her to run a country. A country that
she is next in line to rule. Now traveling back in time to the mind of my younger self,
I thought this was the coolest thing ever. Who wouldn t want this type of unexpected news??
However comma, as an adult? This is one of the most messed up situations
ever. First of all, her momma been lying to her, her entire life about who she is. I mean to the
point, this child don t even know her fathers name you hear me? Her grandma said his government name
and Mia was like who and who? Not a clue. Her mother s excuse was she was young and an
artist and she wanted to be free. She couldn t see herself spending her life walking one step
behind a man everyday all day, she got stuff to do. Well, she didn t say it like that but
you get the point. And I do understand what she is saying and where she is coming from. However
comma. You are a mother now. You do not get to put yourself first anymore. That s rule number one of
being a mother. Not I m over here saying it like I got kids. Not yet, one day. But how selfish
is that? Not to mention the lifestyle that you completed denied her of experiencing. I mean yea,
living in an old firehouse is pretty cool but it ain t got nothing on a castle. Let s be real here.
She never even gave her daughter a chance. So Helen is enemy number one. Then we got enemy
number two, the person who is sadly no longer with us. Eduard Christoff Phillipe Gerard Renaldi
aka Mia s daddy. Again, young Blush thought that this was a touching aspect of the story
especially since we later hear the letter he wrote to her so many years ago. Adult Blush? I
am not moved. First of all, where have you been? You have been live and well for nearly my entire
life and I haven t heard from you. The fact that you felt it was perfectly ok to knock up my mom
and disappear, swiftly after I might add, to take care of your country is completely unacceptable.
Eduard Christoff Phillipe Gerard Renaldi is a deadbeat daddy. There is no other way to describe
it. You divorced your wife, abandoned your kid and fled the country to live the life you saw fit
for yourself? Deadbeat. You know what both of Mia s parents are selfish and irresponsible. Oh
we were so young. So what. You should ve thought about that before you decided to back cookies and
bring this little cookie into the world. Eduard knew he was in line to rule before he met Helen.
So why even open that door in the first place knowing it may not pan out the way you think it
would? This is not your cousin ain t no guarantees here. *clears throat Not to mention how come
neither of them thought of the fact that she could have lived a normal life and known her dad at the
same time. Like she could have visited him during the summers or something and still made the choice
whether she wanted to rule in her own time just like her uncle did? This is mind boggling to me.
Like what? Which brings me to the third person on the ish list, grandma where have you been
all of my life? Even if you want to use the excuse that we all came to the conclusion
that it be best to not involve you with the royal stuff, you couldn t call? Write a letter send me a
postcard? And then you got the audacity to come to me and ask for something? This how we starting our
relationship with a lie morphing into a favor? You done lost your mind. You done lost your mind.
There s no other explanation for this. This relationship started off on the wrong foot
15 years ago. But what put it into overdrive for me was what was said within seconds of their very
first meeting. The Queen looks at her and says You look so young. Excuse me? And here is the
main problem in the film. You are her grandmother. And you can t think of one nice thing to say after
seeing your granddaughter for the first time? This whole film s purpose is convincing the
audience that Mia is an outcast because she is uncool and ugly and the person you would think
would come into the picture to change that, is the main one who feels this way. This is terrible.
If this was Mia s villain origin story I wouldn t even be mad at it. Like how can anybody blame her?
Look at what she s dealing with. And then most of the time that she is spending time with her,
there is no real connection. The Queen is not trying to get to know her she came
through the door teaching her to be the person she wanted her to be. You need to do this,
you need to do that, no, no, no don t do that. Like so I m ugly and I m not good enough nice.
Of course eventually they begin to have a bond but that comes after the infamous makeover.
Again, young Blush, I always took this scene as just being comedic. Paulo and his crew comes in,
funny quips, and we get the big reveal. I have super thick kinky,
curly hair and I ve broken a comb or two in my lifetime. So when he s brushing her hair and goes,
it s like a wolf. That was funny. Still is. However comma. This whole ugly duckling thing is
weird. First of all, many of us would agree that Anne Hathaway is pretty. She just is. But
apparently having big hair, thick eyebrows and glasses just magically erases this.
I mean Paulo literally screams when he see s her for the first time. Really? I get it, this was
2001 so we re peak thin eyebrows, straight blonde hair, color contacts. The works. But you had
I don t know Brooke Shields. Clearly I can t think of anybody right now. But you had people
that shared this similar look who were regarded as beautiful during this time as well so it s like
why was this forced on us? And then grandma queen was just so delighted with the results.
Oh my beautiful granddaughter. Girl bye. Get out of my face. All of this for what? To please other
people because Mia took one look at that and was devastated. It grew on her but at first she was
like this is not me. And then Lilly didn t make it no better. Let me get on Lilly. The last little
she-devil on my list. Yes you have Anna Banna Fo Fanna or whatever her name is who was talking
about her, exposed her and came with the clout chasing, Oh we re best friends. Girl bye, she
don t know you. Then you got Josh trying to snag his little 3 seconds of fame. Those characters we
gon let them live. It was expected. But Lilly? You can tell they ve been two peas in a pod since the
beginning of time. So you would think she knows her friend well enough to know that this minor
change in her appearance would impact her but what does she do? She just rags on her. So when Mia
came with the clap back I was here for it. Because how you gone talk about me? Look at your hair.
Then there was this moment where they were talking and Lilly s saying her dad wants to take her out
to dinner and they don t have anything to talk about. And Mia goes at least your dads still
alive. Lilly s like I thought you gotten over that. As in getting over her own dad dying. Like
excuse me? Even if you feel that way how do you just tell that to somebody. This is out of order.
Out.of.order. It was few of these moments where I m like Lilly is a straight up hater. She did admit
to being jealous of her and I think that s why as a kid I let it slide. But now? Absolutely not. Mia
should have cut her off the second, she felt weird energy from her. Though Mia in this case
is not completely an angel because she did stand her up after promising to appear on her show. But
I mean the way Lilly was acting I don t feel too bad about it. There s only two people who never
switched up on her. Michael which, I used to wish he had a bigger role but I like that they focused
more on Mia coming into her own. But he was sweet on her even when she disappointed him. He held her
accountable but still very sweet. And Joe, Mia s saving grace. He always looked out for her and was
someone who saw her for who she was and accepted her as she came. Shout out to Joe because without
him, Mia wouldn t have made it. The Princess Diaries. Have you seen it? And more importantly
have you watched it recently? What s your take on it? Overall. I have a feeling I m going to
get comments saying Girl I been peeped all of this. I already knew. You just now realizing. But
did you really? Did you really? Because as a kid I wasn t thinking that deep into it. It was just
like oh she s a princess now whew yay, how cool. You know? I still like the movie to be clear,
it s still a childhood favorite but it s like man this is a bit much when you really think about it.
This is not at all the video I thought it would be. I intended for this to be just commentary
of the whole movie but I m watching like hold up. But let me know your thoughts. Also quick
semi-update. I haven t made my final decision. But I m thinking of taking the series of my
videos that don t do so well on YouTube and continuing them as podcast. So like
Bridgerton season 3 whenever it airs, the glee series the latest video is sitting at like
6 thousand views. Because for whatever reason the masses don t want to see those videos from me,
YouTube doesn t promote them and they just sit. But I know there is a number of you
obviously that actually enjoy them so I m probably going to continue them on the podcast.
And again the podcast is literally the same format as my videos except without the visuals.
Just wanted to give an heads up if I do decide to do that. These videos take
too much work for them not to get promoted. I ain t gonna lie I be feeling a way. But it s all good.
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