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* ''[[The Pirates of Penzance]]'' operetta (as well as the modernized adaptation''The Pirate Movie'', based on it) feature a band of matrimonially minded pirates who try to woo/capture the daughters of a Major-General. (It's a good thing the number of pirates and the number of daughters matched up and that, in the movie, the ugly daughter was willing to be matched with the ugly pirate.) |
* ''[[The Pirates of Penzance]]'' operetta (as well as the modernized adaptation''The Pirate Movie'', based on it) feature a band of matrimonially minded pirates who try to woo/capture the daughters of a Major-General. (It's a good thing the number of pirates and the number of daughters matched up and that, in the movie, the ugly daughter was willing to be matched with the ugly pirate.) |
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* In ''[[The Taming of the Shrew]]'', Petruchio kidnaps Kate after their wedding ceremony. It's really more for show than anything else, since she was going to go with him anyway, but she still doesn't enjoy it. |
* In ''[[The Taming of the Shrew]]'', Petruchio kidnaps Kate after their wedding ceremony. It's really more for show than anything else, since she was going to go with him anyway, but she still doesn't enjoy it. |
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* ''[[Seven Brides for Seven Brothers]]'' revolves around the titular brothers kidnapping |
* ''[[Seven Brides for Seven Brothers]]'' revolves around six of the titular brothers kidnapping six women (who already had beaux) and essentially holding them prisoner over the winter, [[Stockholm Syndrome|during which they fall in love with their abductors]]. Yes, it is ''rife'' with [[Unfortunate Implications]]; much of the parody aspect of the original story by Stephen Vincent Benét (mentioned in ''Literature'', above) seems to have been lost in the transition to the stage (and later screen), where it becomes instead a paean to a sort of mild form of [[Rated "M" for Manly]]. |
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