Love & Romance, Hollywood Style [Period 4, Class 14]

[carpe_demon]

Drake had boxes of tissues scattered about the classroom today. No reason.

"We've gone over a lot of romantic -- or not so romantic -- types of love in this class," he said, "but I wanted to touch on one other type of love before the end of the semester. And that's the love of family and friends. You find that type of love in all sorts of movies, especially when heroes are goaded into action to protect their family, or when mother makes a sacrifice to save her child, or when friends are there to take care of one another. I've got two examples for you today, and they're both on the tearjerker side.

"Beaches is a movie about long friendship, specifically between Hillary Whitney and CC Bloom. They meet as children on the beach, and their friendship carries on through their lives as they go to school and begin careers and relationships. The have a period of estrangement but eventually reunite and realize that their feud could have been avoided by honesty and an appreciation of each other's qualities. Hillary is diagnosed with viral cardiomyopathy and at first takes it out on CC, but CC does everything she can to make Hillary's last days comfortable. After her friend's death, CC raises Hillary's daughter, Victoria, and tells her story after story about her mother to keep her memory alive.

"Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood is about a successful young woman, Siddalee, who had an unhappy childhood. Comments about this make it into a magazine article, which her mother, Viviane, reads and becomes offended and wants nothing to do with her daughter anymore. Viviane's friends, the other members of the 'Ya-Ya Sisterhood' of the title, visit Siddalee and kidnap her so they can tell her the story of her mother's life and give some context to the painful memories of her childhood. In the end, Siddalee is able to understand and forgive her mother, leading to the restoration of their relationship.

"So do you think any type of love is stronger? Romantic, family, friends? Do you think there are any qualities, such as forgiveness, that come easier to a romantic or a non-romantic love?"

Comments

Sign In [L&R: Class Fourteen]

[carpe_demon]

With friends or family.

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

[icecoldfrost]

Emma Frost

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

[longislandiceme]

Bobby Drake

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

[brat-intraining.livejournal.com]

Kennedy

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

[carpe_demon]

Or just chat with your friends. As you do.

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

[longislandiceme]

Bobby was actually in a pretty decent mood as he listened to today's lecture. Which would explain the cloud with the gently falling snowflakes floating above his head.

He'd been a little freaked out to find it there this morning (thus resulting in a tiny, localized blizzard) but after figuring out it wasn't his powers being weird, it was just Fandom being weird, he was actually pretty amused by the whole thing.

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

[brat-intraining.livejournal.com]

Maybe it wasn't Bobby's powers being weird, but Kennedy was giving him a very pointed look anyway. Him and his little snowstorm.

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

[longislandiceme]

Bobby was kind of oblivious to the pointed look. Mostly because he was trying not to snicker at the idea of "Kennedy" and "cheerful ball of sunshine" apparently belonging together.

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

[icecoldfrost]

Emma was actually rather bemused, with Fandom's latest quirk.

She'd had to bundle up slightly, but the hazy ice-clouds above her head, combined with the faint cold wind and filtered sunlight, were giving her an almost angelic appearance.

All this sounded very... cute. But Emma was still deeply skeptical that this sort of unconditional affection or forgiveness was possible at all. It was almost so sickeningly sweet as to give her cavities.

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

[imonscholarship.livejournal.com]

Dan was looking mighty sunny today and he couldn't say he minded it. He liked to tan. Yay for Humphrey optimism!

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

[mississippiqueen]

Emmett was...Emmett. Which meant he'd been walking around in the middle of a sunbeam all day, that you very much.

The Ya-Yas, though, with the way too familiar accents and the family life that was way too familiar as well, made a light drizzle settle in when he considered the question of family love vs. the other kind.

Not that the sunbeam went out, because... Emmett.

So yeah. He'd be the kid in the pink shirt with the rainbow over his head.

Discussion [L&R: Class Fourteen]

[carpe_demon]

"Do you think any type of love is stronger? Romantic, family, friends? Do you think there are any qualities, such as forgiveness, that come easier to a romantic or a non-romantic love?"

Re: Discussion [L&R: Class Fourteen]

[living_endless]

"Family is stronger because you can't control it," Didi said easily, sun shining down on her. "You get to choose who you fall in love with or who you're friends with, but you don't pick your family -- they're just with you. It's easier to forgive when you can't walk away."

She bit a thumbnail and added, "I'm not saying family is easy. It isn't. And sometimes people do things that make them not family to each other. But it's the kind of love I know best."

Re: Discussion [L&R: Class Fourteen]

[carpe_demon]

"That sunbeam is really ruining your goth image," Drake had to point out. "But you're right -- we pick our friends, but not our family. But do your eally pick who you fall in love with?"

Re: Discussion [L&R: Class Fourteen]

[awesomebigsis.livejournal.com]

"Anyone of those could be stronger depending on the situation," said Ellie, the weather partly cloudy with some sun above her head. "Though I can say I'd be much more willing to forgive my brother for just about anything more so than anyone else."

Like her parents.

Re: Discussion [L&R: Class Fourteen]

[joan-notjane.livejournal.com]

"I think it really depends on the individual relationships," Joan said. "I mean, I have a good relationship with my family and I think family love is stronger. But I know some people who have really terrible family lives and they obviously wouldn't feel the same way."

Re: Discussion [L&R: Class Fourteen]

[awakestheghosts]

Chloe was thinking very deeply about this question, and trying to ignore the gray clouds above her head.

"I think it depends entirely on the situation. Some people are closer to their friends and significant others than they have ever been with their relatives and that makes them family." She twisted a strand of hair around her finger.

Talk to Drake [L&R: Class Fourteen]

[carpe_demon]

It must have been cold there in my shadow,
to never have sunlight on your face.
You were content to let me shine, that's your way.
You always walked a step behind.

TAs [L&R: Class Fourteen]

[carpe_demon]

So I was the one with all the glory,
while you were the one with all the strength.
A beautiful face without a name for so long.
A beautiful smile to hide the pain.

Re: TAs [L&R: Class Fourteen]

[brat-intraining.livejournal.com]

Kennedy was not walking a step behind anyone, thank you very much.

She was, however, available if you needed something TA-like. Shut up about the ball of sunshine floating overhead, okay?

Re: TAs [L&R: Class Fourteen]

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

Yeah, like that was gonna happen. Dinah had to stop and grin teasingly at Kennedy. "So. Who's a happy bouncy hellion now, hmm?" Never mind that was Katchoo's mocky-thing, it fit Kennedy at the moment.

OOC [L&R: Class Fourteen]

[carpe_demon]

Did you ever know that you're my hero,
and everything I would like to be?
I can fly higher than an eagle,
'cause you are the wind beneath my wings.

Re: OOC [L&R: Class Fourteen]

[brat-intraining.livejournal.com]

YOU WITH THE EARWORM. AUGH.

Re: OOC [L&R: Class Fourteen]

[carpe_demon]

YOU KNEW THE RISK WHEN YOU TOOK THE JOB.

Re: OOC [L&R: Class Fourteen]

[icecoldfrost]

AN EVIL EVIL EARWORMING PERSON. I CAN'T MAKE IT STOP.