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GiantSteps -> The Best D/s film in the history of history (3/24/2008 9:39:52 PM)
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The lifestyle being what it is, it is a rare thing when a lifestyle film makes the mainstream. Not too long ago, "The Secretary" was all the buzz within the D/s community, and more recently Hollywood came out of the closet with the surprising blockbuster, "Brokeback Mountain." However, I recently became aware of the most remarkable lifestyle film ever put to celluloid.
It was an amazing mainstream success, with no less than 8 Oscar awards and live performances being enacted every year in high schools around the country. It is my great pleasure to re-introduce this masterpiece to you, and suggest it as our community's official Hollywood film.
The film features an exacting, arrogant, curmudgeonly but somehow loveable Dominant who takes into his charge a young, willing but ignorant submissive. She comes to him with no conception of the lifestyle, pliable but haughty. Our hero, however, understands training well, and removes her from her vanilla environment, stripping her naked and burning the clothing of her other world before immersing her in a 24/7 relationship. At first, as it always is, it is a battle of wills. But then, one magical night, she hits subspace and all becomes clear to her. She gets that look in her eyes - you know the one - and she fairly floats around the screen, taken to song -
"I could have danced all night, I could have danced all night, and still have begged for more..."
Freshly in collar, she appears in public and catches the attention of what appears to be a young male switch, who becomes obsessed with her and becomes a stalker. He proceeds to live in the bushes outside of their house for the rest of the film.
His happy stalker song, "On the Street Where You Live" was a hit song of that decade, rerecorded by most of that decades musical luminaries. "The overpowering feeling - just to know somehow you are near; the overpowering feeling that you might suddenly appear..." This song reached #4 on the Billboard charts in 1956, a strange situation, considering nowadays it'll just get you a restraining order and a weekend in the local pokey.
Anyway, as these things often do, there comes the subbie rebellion, in which Eliza decides that her Dominant does not properly appreciate her submission, and in a fit of pique leaves the house to sub for the happy stalker switch. She finds out quickly that he just doesn't have the force of will to control her, and rebukes him in song - "Make me no undying vow. Show me now!"
That does it for the happy stalker. He disappears, presumably to go back to subbing, or perhaps to pose on some internet board as "Mysterious UberMaster."
Anyway, now full of piss and vinegar, the sub decides that she's going to use her Doms techniques to become a Dominatrix, and that'll show him. Her Dom, slightly cowed, tries to explain to her that she's simply in sub drop and her service and his dominance has always been a matter of choice. In a lovely ending, she returns voluntarily to submission to the man who had trained her. I laughed, I cried, I bought the tee shirt.
I hope this reinterpretation of this old classic will give you a reason to revisit and appreciate "My Fair Lady" as the subversive masterpiece it is.
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