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Now you're gonna get JZ all riled up about Holiday again, since it's one of her favorite movies and she can rhapsodize about it for a good five paragraphs without taking a breath.
I will simply opine (for the fifth time at least) that Kate/Cary totally trumps Kate/Spencer.
I will simply opine (for the fifth time at least) that Kate/Cary totally trumps Kate/Spencer.
Maybe there's a Kate/Spencer movie that can come close to either Holiday or The Philadelphia Story. If so, I haven't seen it.
::ahem::
::coughdesksetcough::
Fred Astaire can't jilt Betty Furness, his fiancee, in Swing Time, even though he is falling in love with Ginger Rogers. His friends conspire to set things up so that she'll jilt him; I think she dumps him at the altar.
I think guy-jilting-woman is actually much more interesting; it was understood that the woman could walk out any damned time she wanted to, for any reason, but that a man, having asked a woman to marry him, was not free to change his mind. That's part of why George Kittredge is a swine in The Philadelphia Story -- not only does he assume the worst of Katherine Hepburn, but he threatens to back out of the wedding.
I suppose The Graduate has to qualify as part of the jilting genre.
And, in an odd twist, Ben Affleck's character (cleverly named Ben), for the most part, jilts the woman he's just fallen in love with (Sandra Bullock, cleverly named Sarah) by actually going ahead and marrying his intended in Forces of Nature. Nobody saw that comin'.
I'm sincerely embarrassed that I must admit to sitting through that entire movie...and that I subsequently remember anything at all about it.
I think guy-jilting-woman is actually much more interesting
Me too, honestly. I do think that most of the jilting women are completely unsympathetic, and I can't imagine them doing that with a male romantic lead.
Not that I thought Kittredge was a swine -- she assumed the same thing, and that's no respectful way to spend the night before your wedding. At the very least, there was something to discuss.
Sorry, Beej. Haven't seen Desk Set -- which was the main reason I left the possibility open.
I think guy-jilting-woman is actually much more interesting
Yep.
I was surprised by the end of Forces Of Nature, actually, because I thought that the carefree woman wasn't neurotic enough to not be the right one.
I do hate the carefree-woman-liberates-stuffy-man genre even more than the jilting one.