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Buffy: A Guide, but no water or food. So it leads me to the sacred place and then a week later it leads you to my bleached bones? Giles: Buffy, really. It takes more than a week to bleach bones.
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beekaytee - Aug 25, 2004 4:20:54 pm PDT #3043 of 10001
Compassionately intolerant
Betsy HP - Aug 25, 2004 4:23:53 pm PDT #3044 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
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.
Betsy HP - Aug 25, 2004 4:26:10 pm PDT #3045 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
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.
beekaytee - Aug 25, 2004 4:27:59 pm PDT #3046 of 10001
Compassionately intolerant
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.
§ ita § - Aug 25, 2004 4:28:08 pm PDT #3047 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
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.
Fred Pete - Aug 25, 2004 4:28:18 pm PDT #3048 of 10001
Ann, that's a ferret.
Sorry, Beej. Haven't seen Desk Set -- which was the main reason I left the possibility open.
beekaytee - Aug 25, 2004 4:28:49 pm PDT #3049 of 10001
Compassionately intolerant
I think guy-jilting-woman is actually much more interesting
Yep.
§ ita § - Aug 25, 2004 4:29:36 pm PDT #3050 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
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.
flea - Aug 25, 2004 4:30:10 pm PDT #3051 of 10001
information libertarian
Does John Cusack jilt the brunette who's not Kate Beckinsale in Serendipity, or does she get fed up with him and call it all off?
Also, how could ita forget a John Cusack-jilting?
§ ita § - Aug 25, 2004 4:31:45 pm PDT #3052 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Does John Cusack jilt the brunette who's not Kate Beckinsale in Serendipity, or does she get fed up with him and call it all off?
I was thinking about that! I just remember it not happening, but also recall that they came to the decision together.
Extra points are given for altar-jilting. It's the ur-jilt.