Week 8 EOC: Is She Fair Game?

In the movie Roman Holiday, the plot revolves around a princess who has run away from home. She has landed in the arms of a man who works for a newspaper, but she does not know what he does. He knows who she is, but never tells her. He immediately develops the idea to get a story about the princess that no one else can get. One of his best friends is a photographer. He arranges for the photographer to meet him while he is out for a fun day with the princess. Little does he know that he (the newspaper writer) will fall in love with the princess. While this is all going on the photographer meets up with the two and begins to secretly take photos of the princess doing different things she’s never gotten to do. These are things such as smoking her first cigarette, dancing with a barber, and hitting someone over the head with a guitar in a fight. Once the newspaper writer found out he was in love with the princess he knew that he could not write the story worth a lot of money. The photographer soon came with the photos and was confused by the writer’s reasons. He said she was “fair game”. The writer said you can take them and make money with them if you want to, but I don’t want anything to do with it. In today’s world it is true that she is fair game. There are many people willing to pay a lot of money for photos of celebrities doing things that are unheard of. The photographer could have black mailed the princess for more money to not show them and I’m sure that this happens today also. I think that because the photographer was the writer’s friend that he made the right choice to not sell the photos and ruin the princess’ name. I’m not sure that with the money that could be made that I or other people would be able to do the same. I guess the saying is true that you don’t know until it happens to you.