i'm not the type who likes chinese and korean telenovelas. i find myself awkward around my friends who actually enjoy watching those kinds of movies and sing along to videos they don't understand. (but i have to admit that i do like asian movies with high-tech action scenes and espionage plots) i'm not a fan of love stories, but they are usually motivating, especially if the soundtrack is great. teen or chick flicks are enjoying at times especially if they're hilarious, its then that i go for them, but that's it.
i just watched my sassy girl with my dormates the other night. it's a korean love story movie [so i don't have to point out that the main characters are a guy and a girl]. the story is set in present day - easily identified through the flip cellular phones and the subway. the girl is sort of a bully, she gets drunk after 3 shots, and she is so unpredictable. the guy is weird and unbelievably impossibly helpful and kind, he's a pushover and yes the girl bullies him around. they become friends and it takes long for them to admit that they like each other. i liked the movie not because it was a sweet love story and they got together in the end, in the most awkwardly predictable way. what made it really stick to me was the funny antics that happened in the movie. though very impossible, basically it was ... funny. and yes it was a nice love story, nothing too serious: it was light and comedic. it was very asian in such a way it didn't have only one rise and fall and you can't really tell when the story will end, until it does. its a love story, (it has so many clichés) and its very much impossible. its foreign, but i do recommend it. its really fun!
and here comes the undying question: can and/or does that actually happen in real life? i don't think so.
the girl was a bully of the worst kind. its been kind of typical in love stories that the girl is a bully and she bullies the guy around. it can happen, but its unlikely. not many girls have nothing to lose. well i don't and as much as i like to bully guys around, i'm too kind to. (i'm generally nice, but i make exemptions for the assholes)
the guy is a "loser"! there cannot exist a guy like that in this world. he meets the girl in the subway, she's drunk and vomits all over the place and calls him honey though they've never met. so people in the subway think he's responsible and has to clean up and bring the already unconscious girl out. not only that he takes her to a motel and checks her in so she can rest. he gets in jail for it, and that doesn't happen only once. he is impossibly kind. when they're friends already, he does whatever she tells him to. well i guess you can't blame him, the girl hits him - fondly - and asks him, "do you want to die?" but still, i don’t think any real guy would be nice enough to do that. they don't like it when they're pushed around. the patriarchal society we live in tells us that men have to show the girl that they're strong men, not men who act like chickens. its actually very animé, the guy is not even handsome, he just looks stupidly cute.
unwritten love story? taking off from that, can you think of a love story that hasn't been written, made into a movie or the like? i know all love stories are unique, but of the many love stories already on the reel or on paper, are there any other ones without the already overused clichés? just a thought. think of one and type it as a comment below, or in the chatterbox.
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