As a child I preferred to read more than actually watching movies, however, I would never turn down the opportunity to watch the movie Ever After. The movie featured amusing characters like Leonardo da Vinci who was portrayed as that weird, hilarious, and clever old man. Quite a character to say the least but the fictional character I would choose to be would be the main character, Danielle de Barbara.
Danielle is not the traditional female character portrayed in most movies at that time. Danielle had an assertive and smart character seen throughout various instances. One instance would be when Danielle and Henry are ambushed by gypsies. Rather than hiding and waiting for Henry to fix things, she takes action and when she is told that she is free to leave with only what she can carry and the gypsies clearly expected her to only take jewelry or something else of that sort. After being promised that the gypsies will keep their word, she finds a loophole to save the prince-- she carries the prince on her back and marches off. Another case is when her stepmother sells her, instead of letting herself get wed she confronts Pierre, her "owner", cutting his face with a sword and threatens to dismember him if he does anything to her and is freed. Of course another bonus is that Leonardo da Vinci is a close friend of hers
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