I don't know why the shy, more serious girls always get the guy in movies. In real life it usually seems like men go for outgoing, talkative girls. I already knew after their first encounter with David at the ice cream stand that Lilly would end up with him.
No, I find that in real life guys go for the quiet, introspective girls. Talkative girls may get their attention first, but usually they are more intrigued by the introspective girls - plus, the introspective girls often come off as classier.
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I really didn't get their relationship. She calls him a dick at the ice cream stand, sees him at the beach & turns him down for a date, so he shows up at her house &they run off together? Why? Even at his apartment she barely said a word, she just stood around awkwardly until they started making out. Must be nice to be able to attract guys so easily with zero personality.
shareshe turned down the date at the beach but told him her home address. their relationship seems unrealistic at first but it can work in real life. just all the extra talking is taken out of the movie and is left minimal but enough stuff for it to work. in theory at least for introspective people. still have complain of course. all the main characters are very annoying, i was happy that film ended when it did.
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You mean character development?
the one i replied to compared this scenario to real life situation. and in real life you dont always have character development. all the development needed is going on inside peoples thoughts. BUT i admit quiet ones are interesting sometimes, which is counter intuitive. but i think the real reason quite ones are attractive is that by being quiet it looks like they are opposing you some way, as if they have some wisdom that makes them comfortable just being silent and puts them above you and others somehow. which is not always true. also there is something about silence that is attractive in itself, and it makes you look cool and not needy. many reasons why being quiet is good but it is also annoying and not fun sometimes, i just dont care about people that are too laid back from the start. so its better to create some balance and stay in the middle, instead of being too quiet or too noisy
shareMoral message, but also precisely because it's the opposite of what happens in real life, and movies are a fantasy of an ideal world rather than something that captures the whimsy of it.
"Your mother puts license plates in your underwear? How do you sit?!"
It happens like that in real life; you don't know it because the quiet ones don't talk about it.
shareThat the quiet, introspective girl gets the guy is more or less necessary for any movie script. If the aggressive, talkative girl succeeds, then the movie would be over in fifteen to twenty minutes. A movie centered around an airhead is not particularly interesting.
Moreover, in such movies, the guy is usually depicted as some misunderstood "artist" who has "talent" in music or art, etc., which the world fails to recognize or appreciate, but which a quiet, pretty girl of the intellectual type would be able to "understand". In real life, this is often just wishful thinking.
but lily never showed any real intellect. she says barey anything at all. he was an artist, and Gerri was singer/song writer and far from a ditz. She was more talkative and outgoing but she actually shows more depth and personality and intellect throughout the entire film than lily does. realistically, it depends on who someone is drawn to naturally-----but lily was supposedly "smart" i cant think of one example where she said anything intellectual or interesting really. whereas Gerri did a lot. i think in real life, if a guy like him met the girls hed prob be attracted to both as both are beautiful (no way of telling who he would be more attracted to) but getting to know them, i feel like is artistic side would mesh well with Gerri's. they would have immediately at least been friends, with her pursuing him. and had a lot to talk about. but in flms that is too "real" and "cliche" so they make the guy go for the othre one. And Elizabeth Olsen/Gerri is gorgeous, and sweet, and deep. In real life a guy would fall head over heels in love with a girl like that---and realize Lily, even if she is "mystrious and quiet and pretty" is a total bore. Guys go for all kinds of girls, it depends on who you connect with-- but in my experience personally and also what ive witnessed my whole life----guys get super bored of the pretty quiet girls who end up not being mysterious and deep at all but literally just having no personality, and the more outgoing, artsy, fun girl wins the guys. trust me.
and if anyone disagrees about gerri not being the intellectual, the interesting one, the deep one--- I am more than happy to point out several examples from the film where she was, and several examples of the film where Lily was not. I kept thinking "What is her passion? What is she even going to school for? All she does is work for a boat....and doesnt talk a lot. What does he see in her other than her looks?" they said a couple times how lily is so smart but when?? where? that was never shown in the entire film. at all. in fact she was immature, insecure, confused, bratty, moody, and overall not a very plesant prson unless she was with Gerri---- who was much more pleasant and who should of been in the movie way more than she was.
and heres an ironic funny fact: The guy in the film who plays David was in a 3 year relationship/engaged ti Elizabeth Olsen until they broke up recently haha. They met filming this and immeditely starting dating.
My fiance was the shy quiet one of the group, she was more hard to get and I had to get to know her before getting her into bed and now we're planning a wedding.
Go figure ...
Because they’re easier to control.
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