Love & Romance, Hollywood Style [Period 4, Class 4]

[carpe_demon]

Drake was grinning as he started the class today. He'd had a date with a goddess last night, after all, so he had reason to be in a good mood. "Last week was love and death," he said, "so how about something a little more lighthearted this week? Love conquers all. You know the story. Boy meets girl, boy kidnaps girl, boy and girl obviously have the major hots for each other but instead act like they hate each other, boy loses girl, boy finds girl, girl loses boy, girl finds boy, boy loses girl, and the two angels trying to bring them together resort to bloodshed and violence to make them live happily ever after." Drake paused. "Okay, maybe I exaggerate the lightheartedness."

He snapped his fingers and started some clips playing on the projector. "In meta for A Life Less Ordinary, two angels are ordered to bring together Robert Lewis and Celine Naville. If they fail, they'll be banished back to Earth, because all the divorces and unhappy marriages are ruining their record of uniting couples in eternal bliss, and god is a bitch of a boss.

"So, Robert is a janitor and a hopeless dreamer," Drake went on. "Celine is a spoiled rich girl. Robert works as a janitor for Celine's father, and when he's fired and replaced by a machine, he flips out and demands his job back from Celine's father at gunpoint. He ends up taking Celine hostage -- by her doing, because she's bored and wants attention. Celine tries to guide Robert in the art of kidnapping while they bicker and fight and have an obligatory musical number. The two angels pursue them, disguised as bounty hunters, and come up with the brilliant plan of putting Robert and Celine in constant jeopardy to try to get them to fall in love.

"In the end," Drake concluded, "Robert and Celine do fall in love, and the angels' jobs are saved, though a minor miracle is needed to get everyone through it alive. So what do you think? Can love conquer all? Do you think Robert and Celine would've fallen in love without the divine influence? Do the angels pushing them together make their love any less real?"

Comments

Sign In [L&R: Class Four]

[carpe_demon]

Like you're an angel.

Re: Sign In [L&R: Class Four]

[awakestheghosts]

Chloe Saunders

Listen to the Lecture [L&R: Class Four]

[carpe_demon]

Or nap or pass notes or whatnot.

Re: Listen to the Lecture [L&R: Class Four]

[lovemykilt]

Oh man, Priestly loved that movie. Especially the bit where the guy's boss at the diner is all like "Dude. You will never in a million years have another chance at a woman like that, you completely freaking moron." Best speech ever.

Yeah, he wasn't really taking notes or anything. More staring dreamily off into space as he pictures Cameron Diaz in a towel.

Re: Listen to the Lecture [L&R: Class Four]

[joan-notjane.livejournal.com]

Joan took some notes but ended up wondering if God ever really sent angels to do stuff like that.

Re: Listen to the Lecture [L&R: Class Four]

[vanillajello]

Kate had seen this movie before. And now she made a mental note to get her hands on it again because it was insane but entertaining.

For once, she looked amused by this class.

Re: Listen to the Lecture [L&R: Class Four]

[mississippiqueen]

While touched by the True Love aspect, Emmett's notes consisted mostly of



And then some sketches we won't reproduce here.

Re: Listen to the Lecture [L&R: Class Four]

[she-sheds.livejournal.com]

Joolushko enjoyed movies. But this was just bizarre. She was just going to have to watch the whole thing at some point and hope it made more sense than the clips and lecture led her to believe.

Class Discussion [L&R: Class Four]

[carpe_demon]

Can love conquer all? Do you think Robert and Celine would've fallen in love without the divine influence? Do the angels pushing them together make their love any less real?

Re: Class Discussion [L&R: Class Four]

[lovemykilt]

"In this case, I'm thinking that Robert and Celine wouldn't even have met each other without the angels' influence."

Re: Class Discussion [L&R: Class Four]

[awakestheghosts]

"I don't think Celine and Robert would have met each other without the angels, but I don't think that their love was because of the angels. The angels brought them together and they did the rest."

Re: Class Discussion [L&R: Class Four]

[living_endless]

"I'm not even sure I'd call it real love," Didi offered. "I mean, it's nice if that's what it turns into, but it's not like they had much time to get to know each other."

Re: Class Discussion [L&R: Class Four]

[brat-intraining.livejournal.com]

"What? Screw that." Kennedy was still cranky after her last class. "If you're gonna fall for someone, divine influence needs to stay the hell out of the whole thing."

Re: Class Discussion [L&R: Class Four]

[joan-notjane.livejournal.com]

"I think that their love is definitely real," Joan said. "Because God is way too into free will to force them to fall in love."

Re: Class Discussion [L&R: Class Four]

[oops-mbad.livejournal.com]

"Well...they needed the angels to bring them together? I think after that the angels should have just butted out and let the two of them work things out for themselves." Diana said, trying to piece together what she had just seen.

Re: Class Discussion [L&R: Class Four]

[icecoldfrost]

"I think it's disgusting," Emma said frankly. "Two people keep getting shoved together over and over by two bureaucrats that don't even care about them as people, only as statistics, to save their own jobs. That's not love, that's some twisted variant on Stockholm Syndrome."

Re: Class Discussion [L&R: Class Four]

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

"This isn't even close to real, so I'm going to go with no. I wouldn't call it Stockholm Syndrome, but maybe extreme confusion? Vertigo? With mutual attraction?"

Yeah, Dinah was a fan of thrills and hormones and Ewan, but c'mon.

Talk to Drake [L&R: Class Four]

[carpe_demon]

He's no angel.

TAs [L&R: Class Four]

[carpe_demon]

But they're his angels.

Re: TAs [L&R: Class Four]

[brat-intraining.livejournal.com]

At least half of the TA-ly duo was in a lovely mood today. No, really. Kennedy had her arms crossed over her chest, a weirdly defensive posture for her, although the stormy expression wasn't anything new or surprising.

Re: TAs [L&R: Class Four]

[cutsthestrings.livejournal.com]

Fiona was there... and looking dour.

OOC [L&R: Class Four]

[carpe_demon]

I so <3 this movie. Pity Ewan doesn't drop trou like he normally does in non-Star Wars movies, though. (Pity he didn't in Star Wars, too.)

Celine: So you're telling me that successful relationships are made in heaven? Not founded on the daily practicality of two people being prepared to tolerate the imperfections of one another?
Robert: It's not successful relationships, Celine. It's love. And it comes from a strange and wonderful place that we don't know about.
Celine: So you also reject the idea that love is merely an emotional adaptation to a physical necessity?
Robert: Completely.
Celine: Are you serious?
Robert: Fate intervenes in people's lives. In ours, for instance. Fate brought us together. It kept us together. We were destined for one another.
Celine: Fate had a pretty strange way of making its point.
Robert: But that's part of the beauty of it. It's inexplicable, unpredictable and absolutely beyond control or understanding.
Celine: But you nearly got killed.
Robert: But I didn't. And here we are.
Celine: Do you have any substantial evidence to back all this?
Robert: None at all.
Celine: And you realize that it's absurd and irrational?
Robert: I know that.
Celine: Then why do you believe it?
Robert: Because, Celine, I'm a dreamer.
Celine: Well, I guess that makes two of us.

Re: OOC [L&R: Class Four]

[vanillajello]

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE A LIFE LESS ORDINARY \o/!

...Ahem.

Re: OOC [L&R: Class Four]

[lovemykilt]

MOST RANDOM, RIDICULOUS ENDING, EVER.

Also, I've been dreaming idly of doing a Jackson-and-O'Reilly matchmaking plot foreeeeeeeever. "Jeopardy, Jackson, always works."

Re: OOC [L&R: Class Four]

[awakestheghosts]

I need to see this movie.