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

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.