The Prince and Me--Trinity's pick

I decided to pick the movie, "The Prince and Me", because I have the dvd and it is one of my favorite love movies. The movie's plotline is one that tries to put a new twist on the old tale of the Prince finding his princess. In this film a very irresponsible and spoiled Prince from Denmark decides he wants to attend a college in the US. He doesn't want to go to college for an education but more just to get a fun college experience before he has to take over the throne for his father. As his gets to the University of Wisconsin, he soon realizes how hard actually taking care of yourself is. He meets a girl named, Paige, whom he is immediately interested in during his first night at the University. He decides he wants to try and live a normal life and not let his identity be known to anyone except his butler who has traveled to the states with him as well. The Prince who is now known as "Eddie", tries to get on Paige's good side but throughout the first half of the movie all he manages to do is irritate her. Finally, however, Paige starts growing a bit fond of Eddie and then invites him to spend Thanksgiving break at her family's farm. Eddie and Paige end up kissing after a few days together and return to school as an "item". Things seem to be going Eddie's way, but only a few days after arriving back from Thanksgiving break, the paparazzi discover his whereabouts and hunt him down. Unexpectedly Eddie has to tell Paige who he really is. She doesn't know to react, and she leaves him. Eddie then returns to Denmark, and Paige continues with her finals. But she soon realizes that she made a mistake and that she loves Eddie. She then scrapes together enough money and travels to Denmark. She finally finds Eddie by a act of luck. She also becomes aware of her celebrity in Denmark. Everyone knows who she is and know that she is with Eddie, thanks to the paparazzi. She joins Eddie and on her first day there he proposes to her. She says yes and soon plans for a royal wedding are in order. Eddie and Paige are soon swept up in the hustle of royal life. For a while, Paige does well and is happy but soon she starts feeling the weight of possible queenhood. She starts to reflect on all the things that she had wanted to do with her life and with her career in medicine. She starts thinking of all the dreams she had wanted for herself, and with a heavy heart she tells Eddie she can't marry him. She leaves Eddie just days before he takes the crown, and she goes back to finish her last year at the University of Wisconsin. But, at the end of the movie you see Paige graduating and unexpectedly Eddie shows up to congratulate her and he tells her his is willing to wait for her. Thus giving the movie a happy ending.
One of my favorite scenes in the movie, is when Paige and Eddie first arrived at the farm for Thanksgiving break. In the scene they meet her parents and also her two older brothers and her brothers and her father tend to get a little overprotective. They give Eddie such a hard time that it cracks me up. One of the reasons it is my favorite is because of the humor and because I can also relate to Paige in this scene. My dad is very overprotective and his has intimidated all of my dates. So I feel sorry for her when she gets embarrassed because I have been there!
I think the difference that this plotline has from another romantic movie is that it is more real life (well as real as it can be for a love story). Everything doesn't go smoothly and the couple almosts ends up apart two different times. It also is not all a fairy tale like movie, the couple is faced with the reality of the royal life and also all the problems that can happen. I think the biggest diffence that this movie has from others is the fact that the girl who is asked to marry a Prince, turns him down. How many other movies does that really happen in? Not many. They usually end things with them riding into the sunset with a happy ending. But in this movie she leaves him, yes they end up getting back together in the end, but it is the Prince who comes back to her. That is why I feel this movie is a bit different.