Prince Charming Onscreen - It’s Time For An Update | TROPES

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Modern versions of the fairy tale princess archetype are a far cry from the stereotypical damsel in distress, waiting for her prince. But what about Prince Charming himself? Has he been updated? Modern stories that do involve a prince charming figure often don’t bestow him with nearly as much interiority, agency, or complexity. And if a newer movie does want to challenge the prince charming stereotype, they mostly resort to a different kind of boring: a predictably shallow doofus (who’s also sometimes evil), or a quote “fixer-upper” who the princess sees something in even though he’s rough around the edges. So why hasn’t the Prince gotten the same updates as contemporary Princesses – and could he ever become something more three-dimensional and... interesting?

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00:00 Prince Charming needs a better suitor
01:27 The secretly evil doofus prince
05:01 The fixer-upper prince
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08:17 What lessons do these princes teach us?
12:48 How to make Prince Charming more charming

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