lovesparis Posted May 22, 2011 Posted May 22, 2011 WARNING, thar be SPOILERS about Pretty in Pink and the Notebook below. ************************************************************** ok, so in Pretty in Pink, Duckie is the nerdy bff who has spent his life pining over Andi. As the movie progresses, we, the audience, root for Andi and Blaine. We want to see them together. It's obvious they are attracted to each other. Blaine does the unthinkable and breaks Andi's heart. Duckie is there to pick up the pieces... but when it boils down to it, and after some half-@$$ed apology, Andi chooses Blaine. By this point in the movie, I have not yet met a person who wants Andi and Blaine together. Everyone I know wants her to be with Duckie, even though Blaine is the "better" choice; he can give her a life Duckie can't. Duckie knows that and that's why he tells her to go. In the Notebook, we all know, even Allie knows, that Lon is the better choice for her, handsome, poised, wealthy, but the heart wants what the heart wants and Allie chooses Noah. Their passion, their chemistry, the way that even though Lon is perfect on paper, will give her a life that Noah never will, Noah brings out something in her that Lon never will. In each of these movies, there is a tug of war between the "perfect" life and the guy who "isn't good enough." In PIP, the perfect life wins, but the audience is still rooting for the underdog. In the Notebook, the underdog wins, and the audience says "Lon who?" In real life, if a woman is torn between a man who "has it all" and a man she loves, who is "beneath her," everyone she knows encourages her to go for the "better man"/the "equal"/the on who can "give you the life you deserve." Why is there this discrepancy between wanting the underdog in the movie to win, but wanting the perfect on paper guy to win IRL?
Pianiste Posted May 22, 2011 Posted May 22, 2011 The whole movie was setup so that you would start rooting for the underdog, that's just not the way life works. There is no storyboard and life wont stop when you finally get together after surviving the mid-movie drama. Besided that there are times when the "perfect guy on paper" doesn't win but that's when he's just not the "perfect guy for you". And that's what we are all looking for in the end.
utterer of lies Posted May 22, 2011 Posted May 22, 2011 It's more like all potential partners are deficient in some areas, and great in some others, just with some you know you'll have a reasonably luxurious life and with others you will have to turn every penny. No wonder women rarely go for the underdog in RL. Or rather, they marry the 'perfect life' guy but some opt to cheat on him with the underdog. Aren't humans great?
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