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Sep. 26th, 2013 11:49 amReading circle poll!
If I were making a video about my issues with Jerry Spinnelli's Stargirl, which I am, would you be more interested in watching it as two shorter videos, one a somewhat in-depth discussion of the Manic Pixie Dream Girl trope and the other specifically about the book, or as just one video over ten minutes long?
Also, a crowd-sourcing question for people who may have seen more movies than I have: would you say all these rom-coms fit roughly into the "uptight career woman meets iconoclastic guy, falls in love, learns to loosen up and be happy with her man" mold?
The Proposal
His Girl Friday
The Ugly Truth
13 Going On 30
If you have any other or better examples of that trope I would be delighted to hear them, because TV Tropes isn't helping as much as it normally does.
(Ah, man, I ought to talk about Chocolat as it relates to the MPDG trope and the ways in which it both plays it straight and subverts it. Another post.)
If I were making a video about my issues with Jerry Spinnelli's Stargirl, which I am, would you be more interested in watching it as two shorter videos, one a somewhat in-depth discussion of the Manic Pixie Dream Girl trope and the other specifically about the book, or as just one video over ten minutes long?
Also, a crowd-sourcing question for people who may have seen more movies than I have: would you say all these rom-coms fit roughly into the "uptight career woman meets iconoclastic guy, falls in love, learns to loosen up and be happy with her man" mold?
The Proposal
His Girl Friday
The Ugly Truth
13 Going On 30
If you have any other or better examples of that trope I would be delighted to hear them, because TV Tropes isn't helping as much as it normally does.
(Ah, man, I ought to talk about Chocolat as it relates to the MPDG trope and the ways in which it both plays it straight and subverts it. Another post.)
