A little bit of this, a little bit of that

I’ve noticed a trend in hollywood movies — in the romantic guy A and girl A are a couple and girl A and guy B are friends (but meant to be) there is invariably the jackass litmus test that occurs in the script: the point at which she creates a situation to out guy A as a jackass and prove that guy B is the guy she really wants to be with. You can see that in the Wedding Singer when Glenn and Julia are on the airplane and she asks for the window seat. You can see it in wedding crashers when Claire and John play the speed slap game and then Claire creates the situation later with Sack. I’ve also seen it in Speechless when Julia asks Bob what his reaction would be if his partner admitted they cheated, and it’s returned to when she asks Kevin the same question at the end of the movie.

I don’t have a thought per se on this now — it’s just interesting, though I may amend it later.