[100 Things] My DVD Collection: Annie Get Your Gun & Calamity Jane

 

I actually only got the DVD of Annie Get Your Gun because I figured I would like it of the back of my love for Calamity Jane. Of all Doris Day movies, it was definitely one of my favourites growing up. I figure its because I like tough women that can also look good in a fancy dress - who doesn't want to be like that? ;)

Anyway, for the most part Annie was as impressive to me as Jane. Both movies had great songs, excellent leading ladies, and the wonderful Howard Keel. What lets Annie down for me is the ending. Apparently what a strong and skilled woman needs to do to get the man of her dreams is be less than she is... Um, NO! I do not like that, at all!

In Calamity Jane, she loses the man she thinks she wants, only to realise the guy she's been fighting with all this time is the one she truly loves. That works for me. Wild Bill Hicock can handle a tough woman just fine, and Frank Butler should have been able to say the same.

So yeah, love both movies for the most part, just the end of one of them that irks me.