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Fifty years ago, The Addams Family made its debut on ABC. The black & white show starring John Astin as the eccentric Gomez Addams and Carolyn Jones as his gorgeous goth wife, Morticia, was inspired by a collection of characters that cartoonist Charles Addams started drawing for The New Yorker in 1938. These illustrations depicted a strange family with a love of all things macabre. Over the last 76 years, those characters have evolved from amusing scribbles to sitcom archetypes to big screen characters of mythic proportions. And do you know what? I would give anything to be exactly like Gomez and Morticia Addams. Not only are they two of the greatest characters ever, but they also have the most enviable romance of all time.
Yes, it's true. Gomez and Morticia Addams are everything that I want to be in life. They are open-minded, have a loving relationship, and adore their children. Gomez tears through life with an almost childlike enthusiasm for adventure, and Morticia is a confident and intelligent woman with her own unique sense of style. They are strong individuals who manage to be totally and utterly themselves without putting anyone else down. The Addamses are absolutely wonderful.
While Gomez and Morticia Addams always had a loving marriage, Raul Julia and Anjelica Huston injected a shock of sexuality into their relationship in The Addams Family film. Both the scripts for The Addams Family and its sequel, Addams Family Values, are full of double entendres that refer to rough sex that maybe shouldn't necessarily be in a family film. But they are. And it's glorious. Here are two healthy adults in a monogamous relationship openly expressing desire for each other. It's the closest thing I've ever seen to what really happens during "Happily Ever After."
If there's anything disturbing about Gomez and Morticia's relationship shouldn't be their obsession with death, nor their implied interest in kink. Rather it's what their relationship says about "normal" romances. If The Addams Family is supposed to be a photo negative of our own cultural mores, then what does it mean that Gomez and Morticia have a healthy, loving, and robustly sexual marriage? These are two people who worry about each other's moods. Morticia gets upset in The Addams Family when Gomez becomes visibly depressed. Gomez asks Morticia how she is handling the added stress of a new baby in Addams Family Values. They share dreams. They reminisce about the past. They support each other completely. They are equal partners in their relationship.
Again, we have to ask ourselves if The Addams Family's humor is supposed to be derived by the juxtaposition between what they consider normal and what we do, then does that mean that "normal" marriages are loveless and full of inequity?
Obviously, I don't think that modern romance is all that depressing, but what does it mean that Gomez and Morticia's happy marriage is supposed to be weird? Does it mean that we not loving enough? That we are not enthusiastic enough? Finally, are we not having enough hot and kinky sex? (I'm just asking…)
Our great romances usually tell the stories of teenagers and twenty-somethings who are torn apart by disaster or who self-destruct in the name of love? Should the likes of Romeo and Juliet or Jack and Rose really be our touchstones for what true love should be? Do we want to aspire to pain, heartbreak, and death? Or do we want to be like Gomez and Morticia? Do we want to aspire to be two successful, happy, fully-grown weirdoes who are madly in love?
You can keep your balcony scenes and sinking ships. I want moonlight in the graveyard.
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