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

Re: TAs [L&R: Class Four]

[brat-intraining.livejournal.com]

"Depends on the cool powers. Which, by the way, I have exactly zero of." Oh, complain more, Kennedy. No, you know what? Don't. "I didn't think Girl Guides were evil..."

Re: TAs [L&R: Class Four]

[oops-mbad.livejournal.com]

"Six hour sing-a-long." Diana said with a shudder.

Re: TAs [L&R: Class Four]

[brat-intraining.livejournal.com]

"...holy crap." Yes. Yes, Kennedy looked appropriately horrified. "Why would anyone do that?"

Re: TAs [L&R: Class Four]

[oops-mbad.livejournal.com]

"Because they're evil?" Diana repeated.

Re: TAs [L&R: Class Four]

[brat-intraining.livejournal.com]

She was never going to look at those cookies the same way again. "No offense, but I'm really not visiting your world now."

Re: TAs [L&R: Class Four]

[oops-mbad.livejournal.com]

"Not my world." Diana corrected. "It's a world slightly to the side of my world. My world has delicious Girl Guide cookies."

Re: TAs [L&R: Class Four]

[brat-intraining.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, and I don't wanna make the accidental wrong turn to get me to evil six-hour-singalong land," Kennedy said without missing a beat. "I don't want my brain dribbling out my ears like that."

Re: TAs [L&R: Class Four]

[oops-mbad.livejournal.com]

"That would be very sad." Diana agreed. "Brains should stay inside. And then Tara would look sternly at me and I'd feel bad."

Re: TAs [L&R: Class Four]

[brat-intraining.livejournal.com]

Well, at least she wasn't mentioning the hedgehog thing. "It's a pretty intimidating stern look," Kennedy allowed.

Re: TAs [L&R: Class Four]

[oops-mbad.livejournal.com]

"Especially when you're a hedgehog."

Re: TAs [L&R: Class Four]

[brat-intraining.livejournal.com]

Awwwwwwwwww, man.

"Can I just pay you to say you never saw that?"