Why The Princess Never Reveals The Main Character's Name
Warning: SPOILERS for The Princess below!
The medieval action movie The Princess never reveals the name of its heroine, and this is a storytelling method to illustrate the themes of the film. Available to stream on Hulu, The Princess stars Joey King as a young princess betrothed to the vicious Julius (Dominic Cooper), who takes over her father's castle and tries to force their marriage after she leaves him at the altar. After escaping her captivity at the top of the tower, the extremely well-trained Princess fights through Julius's forces to rescue her kidnapped family.
The Princess is a very tight medieval action movie with its heroine battling dozens upon dozens of opponents on the many levels of the castle. Though The Princess never identifies King's protagonist by name, this works very well for her arc of asserting her freedom. Moreover, the «bloody good» Hulu Original, in its practically continuous action scenes, shows the Princess reclaiming what that title means for her.
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The arranged marriage to Julius that the Princess finds herself in comes about due to her father the King (Ed Stoppard) never fathering an heir to his throne. She really wants to become a knight, as she makes clear to her father in a flashback to her marriage being set up, and the future that is in store for her does not sit well with the Princess. This gets to the heart of the movie's title, a reference to both the Princess's lack of a say in how her life is to unfold and how she regains it in a manner similar to the action movie classic The Raid.
In the plan for her to marry Julius, the Princess is little more than a pawn in the politics of her father's kingdom and Julius's own ambitions to become a
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