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Reminiscent 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-Wala
by suid 3y ago
Reminiscent 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.
- alanfalcon 3y agoWelcome to the Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon. Now go watch The Holiday (2006).
- kdwikzncba 3y agoThe lunchbox, is that the movie they watch in Seinfeld, which Elaine hates?
- actionfromafar 3y agoNo but she definitely would have hated it