cowgoesmoo says > Look up "Marty". Two unattractive male/female leads under 40. Won the Oscar for "Best Picture" in 1955.
Good try but I don't know how you could compare Marty with this disaster of a movie. The characters in Marty are good people. They may not be physically attractive per se but after a while you don't see that. They're good people; their inner beauty shined through. Even when they made mistakes they didn't come close to the character in this movie.
The Amy character in this movie is so vile and horrible, even if she had been physically more attractive it wouldn't have mattered; her inner ugliness was so overshadowing it made her hard to look at.
In Marty, I rooted for Marty to find love and was happy when he did. For his own good, I did not want Aaron to fall in love with or end up with Amy. Aaron seemed decent but looking down the road, I could see her continuing to ruin his life and the lives of any children they might have in the future.
Even though I could see how a lot of Amy's behavior had stemmed from having had a father who was pretty much the same, I couldn't sympathize with her at all; especially because her sister had the same father and upbringing but she somehow managed to turn out to be a decent, kind, stable person.
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cowgoesmoo
7 years ago
Well, that was the original point... The OP was saying that movies overwhelmingly cast physically attractive people as leads and Trainwreck was an exception. (I agree with that observation.) The OP's challenge way back was to name another movie in which the male/female leads were under the age of 40 and were considered to be physically unattractive. That's how the screenplay of Marty was written, so I don't see any point in arguing that. Given the original context of the question, Marty fits the bill.
Your point, though, is well taken. I'll agree with you, that if you look at their personalities and how they interact and their chemistry, then the male/female leads of Marty are both quite compelling people and, doggone it, I was also rooting for them to succeed in the end. Looks didn't matter to them and the audience could identify with it. I think that went a long way towards propelling this movie to a "Best Picture" Oscar.
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mdonln
7 years ago
cowgoesmoo says > The OP's challenge way back was to name another movie in which the male/female leads were under the age of 40 and were considered to be physically unattractive.
You're right; I obviously overreacted. Thinking of those two movies together sent me into another realm. I can laugh it off now; I just have to think of Trainwreck getting an Oscar or even being nominated for Best movie.
Woman, man! That's the way it should be Tarzan. [Tarzan and his mate]
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