Movie Cliches

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Don't forget that he rediscovers the joy of life with a woman 15-20 years his junior.

[mrpancake]

Or the sassy single city dweller woman. She either works for an advertising agency or a very popular magazine. If she works at a magazine, she's always a writer!

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I am so sick of the Uptight Corporate Man being made to loosen up with the help of the Adorable Free-Spirited Woman. I don't know how anyone can think those women are adorable or sassy. They're obnoxious twits. I liked Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind because while Clementine initially seemed like one of those dreadful "free spirits", she actually had a lot of her own problems and wasn't there just to run around in the rain with the male lead.

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They usually die of something though. There's always that. The spunky gypsy city girl inevitably gets something tragic like Hair Cancer and dies teaching him a lesson about life and love.

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jensational said:

They usually die of something though. There's always that. The spunky gypsy city girl inevitably gets something tragic like Hair Cancer and dies teaching him a lesson about life and love.

I guess every cloud does have a silver lining

[tinyshoes]

jensational said:

They usually die of something though. There's always that. The spunky gypsy city girl inevitably gets something tragic like Hair Cancer and dies teaching him a lesson about life and love.

Funniest. Disease. Ever.

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Librarians are always old dowdy women with their grey hair in a bun wearing frumpy clothes and demanding silence at all times. And all they do is reference/circulation work. No such things as catalogers apparently. Or a reference desk that's seperate from the circulation desk.

[johnboysmole]

roisin54 said:

Librarians are always old dowdy women with their grey hair in a bun wearing frumpy clothes and demanding silence at all times...

...and the bun is a symbol of her repressed sexuality and when it loosens she becomes a dominatrix.

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As is true of any bun-wearing female.

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jensational said:

They usually die of something though. There's always that. The spunky gypsy city girl inevitably gets something tragic like Hair Cancer and dies teaching him a lesson about life and love.

Hair Cancer: greatest band name of 2007. ;D

This cliche also applies to promising girls from rural areas (see that awful movie with Chris Klein and Leelee Sobadatdressingherselfski, where she gets Knee Cancer). After the young lovers' lives have been forever changed by meeting each other, when one of them comes in from a completely "different world" to shake things up and makes them learn All About Life, Love, and Real Emotion. (See also A Walk to Remember.)