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August 1, 2021,
Good question. We’ll repeat it.
Can a mistress ever be a heroine?
Not just on film but in real life as well?
The answer is an unequivocally yes. Puzzled? She is a heroine by certain definitions.
A mistress can be a female head of a household. Plenty of wonderful heroines there, wouldn’t you agree? Hopefully, as you were being raised, you grew up with one.
A mistress can be a woman who employs or supervises servants. We’ve seen plenty of historical films where Head Mistresses served that purpose. Including being in a leadership role at an all-girls school. We’ve seen mostly nasty ones over time in film but a few heroines there too.
In terms of the mistress you were initially thinking of, was your mind sauntering to naughty places? If so, don’t worry.
So was ours.
Yes indeed. Ours sure was and if you enjoy film, there have been plenty of naughty mistress liaisons you could quietly watch from a safe distance as a voyeur. These girls can be very intriguing and unbelievably sexy.
Diabolique is a 1996 American psychological thriller film directed by Jeremiah Chechik, written by Henri-Georges Clouzot and Don Roos, and starring Sharon Stone, Isabelle Adjani, Chazz Palminteri, and Kathy Bates.
The plot follows the wife and mistress of an abusive schoolmaster who find themselves stalked by an unknown assailant after murdering him and disposing of his body.
Performed in pedestrian hands, this film could have been like a mediocre movie of the week potboiler but it wasn’t. There were many twists and turns that kept us on the edge of our seats.
There is the ultimate mistress thriller that arguably could top them all.
Fatal Attraction is a 1987 American erotic psychological thriller film directed by Adrian Lyne from a screenplay written by James Dearden, based on his 1980 short film Diversion.
Starring Michael Douglas, Glenn Close and Anne Archer, the film centers on a married man who has a weekend affair with a woman who refuses to allow it to end and becomes obsessed with him.
The film became a huge box office success, grossing $320.1 million against a $14 million budget, becoming the highest-grossing film of 1987 worldwide.
At the 60th Academy Awards, it received 6 nominations: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress (for Close), Best Supporting Actress (for Archer), Best Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium, and Best Film Editing.
It appears we are not the only ones intrigued by storylines involving mistresses. Such a taboo subject.
Here is another you might watch in the dark with the window curtains closed so you can concentrate.
The Last Mistress is a 2007 French-Italian film based on the novel Une vieille maîtresse by the French writer Jules Barbey d’Aurevilly. It stars Asia Argento and Fu’ad Aït Aattou as the two main characters.
The storyline here is captivating.
In 1835 Paris, Ryno de Marigny (Fu’ad Aït Aattou), before marrying the young and innocent Hermangarde (Roxanne Mesquida), makes a last visit to La Vellini (Asia Argento), his Spanish mistress, to bid goodbye in an act of lovemaking.
His liaison with La Vellini is the subject of Parisian gossip, and before Hermangarde’s grandmother gives her blessing, she wants to hear from Ryno everything about this relationship.
Ryno reveals a tempestuous story but indicates that his ten-year romance is over and he now is in love with Hermangarde.
Right.
After the marriage, the newlyweds move away to a castle at the seashore.
They are happy and soon Hermangarde conceives. But the mistress, with an agenda, reappears, and while Ryno tries to keep her out of his life, she is not to be rejected.
Will Hermangarde find out about her?
So where are we going with this?
Are there times that you are not only intrigued by but also sympathetic to the mistress involved?
Okay, we’ll be the first to speak up.
We have. Why?
In times past, if a woman could not get married, she was relegated to the life-long role of being a courtesan or a mistress. In times past women had few other options.
Perhaps that is giving empathy where we should not because there is a line of reasoning that there should never be sympathy towards someone who is engaged in an act with a married man, designating him as an adulterer.
What if she has his wife’s permission to be with her husband?
If you saw a film about that, in terms of how you feel about the mistress involved, it would bother you less. True? Absolutely. Summer Lovers, starring Daryl Hannah, left us with a feeling, if the wife or girlfriend doesn’t mind, why should we?
We’re going to come even closer to the point.
We have a friend in our circle we will call Tabitha.
Tabitha has no sympathy for mistresses. Especially if they are beautiful and do have career options.
Has Tabitha been the victim of a mistress? No.
Her reasoning might surprise you since it is not based upon moral grounds or karma; the what goes around, comes back around and bites you in the butt philosophy. It is also not based upon, I hate that home wrecker or younger trophy wife who dislodges the middle aged wife and mother venom.
Here’s her deal.
She dislikes beautiful mistresses because she feels that in modern times they actually do have choices and options. They have had many potential suitors but they are so picky that they spurn them.
With them, men are either winners or losers, not based upon internal makeup but primarily about money and power.
The epitome of that was Glen Close’s character in Fatal Attraction.
In the film, one of Michael Douglas business partners is attracted to her and when he tries to strike up a conversation with her, if looks could kill, she makes it clear to this loser and undesirable to stay away.
Tabitha feels that many modern day mistresses get what they deserve.
Nothing.
They deserve to grow up old, lonely and barren from too many abortions because they are extremely selfish physically attractive people who don’t look within themselves or others, who are not perfect, but might make a very good husband and father. They ultimately will get in life what they deserve.
Ouch.
Our view is that women tend to be much harder on other women in these situations than the rest of us. We certainly don’t have a dog in heat in this fight but we will admit to something.
We’ve often found the mistress films involved erotic, intriguing and captivating.
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https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mistress
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diabolique_(1996_film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatal_Attraction
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Mistress
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