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That sounds like the beginning of a slice-of-life movie... Withinboredom and the luggage guy became great pals, travelled the world together, started a business
by toyg 3y ago
That sounds like the beginning of a slice-of-life movie... Withinboredom and the luggage guy became great pals, travelled the world together, started a business, met their spouses... until something dramatic happened, the link was severed, and now Withinboredom longs for the times they spent together, underlining how fleeting existence is, how every day is precious, etc etc.
- finite_depth 3y agoTom Hanks stars in: Personal Baggage
- m463 3y agoHe really does do movies like that, doesn't he? Stuck in the airport in the terminal, stuck on a remote island in castaway, even chasing decaprio in catch me if you can...
- toyg 3y agoI mean, you could say he started his career stuck in a grown-up's body (Big, 1988)...
- js2 3y agoHe has a long and varied career. He's made over 50 movies. Maybe half a dozen fit that description? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Tom_Hanks_performances https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Tom_Hanks_performances
- suid 3y agoReminiscent of the plot in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lunchbox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lunchbox. A meet-cute with the famous Bombay Dabba-Walas (lunchbox delivery service) accidentally messing up a delivery, and leading to a correspondence and later a meeting between an unhappy housewife and a lonely widower.
- toyg 3y agoI've actually seen this! Hated the ending.
- sho 3y ago> A meet-cute OK. That's the second time now. I feel like in the last 48 hours, "meet-cute" or "meetcute" has been introduced as a New Word and everyone got the memo but me.
- solsane 3y agoOk but can someone explain what this means
- TylerE 3y agoIt’s not new. It’s been a thing in writing about rom coms since at least the early 90s, if not earlier. Edit: Wikipedia cites a first usage in print of 1941, which implies it was already a common trope at the time: The earliest example given by the Oxford English Dictionary is from Anthony Boucher's mystery novel The Case of the Solid Key (1941), in which a character says "We met cute, as they say in story conferences."
- js2 3y agoAlso, everyone should watch Roman Holiday because honestly they never needed to make another romcom after that and the meet cute is the sweetest you'll ever see.
- lloeki 3y agoHa, lucky 10k + frequency illusion. https://xkcd.com/1053/ https://xkcd.com/1053/ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_illusion https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_illusion Never heard meetcute before, so, today I'm a lucky 10k as well!
- toyg 3y agoBut it was largely limited to professional storywriters, Hollywood / Broadway types. The internet spread their lingo much more widely, and terms like that have become more common and fashionable in recent years.