Breaking Down the Rhetoric of Love in Pop Culture-- Spring 2011, The Ohio State University
Thursday, March 31, 2011
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Sweet Home Alabama- Melanie is confessing that while she loves her life in New York and her fiance, she still loves her husband and that their old life fits too. She is confused on where she should be and who she should be with. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t57RmJgnfAc&feature=related (the part of the clip is from 5:50 to about 9:12) The Proposal- Andrew admits that he hates his boss. Well that was a week ago, now she's being deported and their "scam" to keep her in the US has made him fall in love with her. In order for them to date, they must marry so she can stay in the states. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIooj9qxl0w
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Sweet Home Alabama is a great movie! Me and my girlfriend watched that the other day and it turned out to be better than I expected. Predictable, but a good story on true love/love at first sight. Some people now may make all the wrong decisions in that they choose love based on money or material possesions that they "think" make them happy. I feel (in real life) if she had picked the rich man to marry, they would have probably gotten a divorce or split up. Its cool that the story pointed out that true love is more important than any amount of money or fame. What do you think? What other things did you notice?
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ReplyDeleteI agree with the statement about true love being more important. I think that the whole movie in general has really good examples of trials that people go through to see true love over something materialistic. I mean even in the beginning when she first goes back home you see Mel wearing all of her "higher class" clothing when the day after her interference at the bar with Jake, she's back to, what I guess you could say would be more appropriate clothing, for the area she was in. It's like her clothes defined her when she was in New York, but in Alabama, she didn't need the clothes to be defined. Her personality alone did that for her.
Sweet Home Alabama is a perfect example of the typical American romantic comedy. It's a strictly by the book movie. The girl has a seemingly perfect life and perfect boyfriend, she then falls in love with a man who she shouldn't be in love with, she succumbs to reality and goes back to her perfect boyfriend but later realizes she is still in love with the other guy, and then she lives happily ever after with the guy she shouldn't have even been in love with in the first place.
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