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Romantic Comedy Part One

I love romantic comedies.. Walaupun kadang-kadang ceritanya cuman gitu-gitu doank, tapi yaaa lumayan menghibur lah.. Pertemuan wanita dan pria, mulai dari yang biasa banget sampai yang unik kayak Amelie.. tetep bisa menarik perhatian kita, entah untuk refleksi diri atau sebagai tambahan referensi harapan.. hehe.. So a few months ago, I made this article which I posted in a forum.

Things about romantic comedy :

1.New York

Kota ini emang lumayan sering dijadiin setting film bergenre Romantic Comedy.. I dunno.. there’s something between the big apple and romantic thingy

Coba ya gue bisa sebutin berapa film nya:

1.Two Weeks Notice
2.Maid in Manhattan, Sidewalks of new york (dah jelas banget men dr judulnya)
3.Serendipity
4.Laws of attraction
5.Sejentik bagian di Fools Rush In (masuk itungan lah.. ya kan si Alex Whitman nya dari New York dan bbrp adegan moment of truth-nya si Alex didapetin di New York.. hehehe)

6.You’ve Got Mail
7.Kate & Leopold
8.Something’s gotta give (New York & sekitar)
9.How to lose a guy in 10 days
10.Breakfast at Tiffany’s
11.One Fine day (film dari pagi ampe malem yang New York abiitt)
12.Down with Love
13.What Women Want
14.Someone Like You
15.The Family Man (juga New York dan sekitarnya)
16.Sleepless in Seattle (walopun judulnya Seattle, tapi mereka milih ketemuan di New York.. )
17.Sabrina (well, it’s in Long Island, not far from New York.. huhuhu sdikit maksa)

2. Meg Ryan

She’s a romantic comedy darling girl..Banyak yang bilang dia ratunya Romantic Comedy.. Let’s see.. filmnya yg bisa gue sebut

When Harry Met Sally, Joe Versus the Volcano, sleepless in seattle, Kate & Leopold, You’ve got mail, when a man loves a woman, Prelude to A Kiss, French Kiss, Addicted to Love, I.Q

3.Soundtrack

A good romantic comedy should have a good soundtrack
Gak jauh dari menye-menye, mellow atau picisan.. Hehehe

- Sleepless in Seattle ("When I Fall In Love" Celine Dion and Clive Griffin)
- Notting Hill ( WHEN YOU SAY NOTHING AT ALL by Ronan Keating, "YOU'VE GOT A WAY" Shania Twain)
- Pretty woman (Masa keemasan Roxette )
- The Wedding Singer (Grow old with you, Adam Sandler)

4. The three stages for a happy ending

Kebanyakan film romantic comedy, terdiri dari beberapa tahap alur:

1. masa-masa bahagia : mulai dr perjumpaan, ataw footage2 yg menunjukkan betapa mereka menikmati masa-masa bedua atau so perfect with each other (biasanya dilatarbelakangi dengan musik ceria huhuhu)

2.masa-masa sedih / merenung : permasalahan semakin pelik,menyendiri, ga ketemuan.. merenungi nasib.. (juga kadang dilatarbelakangi musik, tapi sedikit sedih atau yang cocok untuk merenung.. mellow2 gitu lah )

3.moment of truth: udah ampir bego mikirin knapa begini knapa bgitu.. akhirnya nyadar juga.. weits.. ‘pokoknya di akhir film, gw tetep harus jadian ama dia..’ huhuhu norak abit.. anyway, iya..this is the moment when they realize that they love each other, no matter what will come between them later, well.. filmnya kan udah keburu abis bo.. (mo slanjutnya ternyata ga cocok, bukan urusan kita para penonton) huhuhuhu

Tahap trakhir ini dilengkapi tentunya dengan perjumpaan kembali yang dramatis, sarat makna dalam berkata serta… kissing donk ah !! :
- Matthew Perry & Salma Hayek di bendungan perbatasan Nevada (Fools Rush In)

- Ashley Judd & Hugh Jackman di trotoar (Someone Like You)

- John Cusack & Kate Beckinsale di Central Park

- Meg Ryan & Tom Hanks di Cental Park (You’ve got mail), Empire State Building (Sleepless in Seattle)

- Hujanan emotional scenes di akhir film Love Actually (ini kan jawaranya.. hehehe)

5. Damn! That’s one good quote!

Some superb quotes:

Sleepless in Seattle
Annie Reed : Destiny is something we've invented because we can't stand the fact that everything that happens is accidental.

You’ve Got Mail
Kathleen Kelly (Meg Ryan) : I wanted it to be you; I wanted it to be you so badly.

Laws of attraction
Daniel(Pierce Brosnan): When you love someone, I believe you should be unselfish enough to give whatever they want

Love actually
Tell her that you love her.
You've got nothing to lose, and you'll always regret it if you don't

My best friend’s wedding
Michael O'Neill (Dermot Mulroney): Kimmy says if you love someone you say it, you say it right then, out loud. Otherwise the moment just...
Julianne Potter (Julia Roberts): Passes you by...
Michael O'Neill : Passes you by

While You Were Sleeping
Lucy : Peter once asked me, when it was that I fell in love with Jack, and I told him, it was 'while you were sleeping'.

6. Let’s-match-them-again recipe

Beberapa aktor dan aktris emang kadang terlihat begitu so cute together dan matching ketika maen bareng dalam satu film romantic comedy.. jadilah..:

Juaranya sapa lagi kalo bukan Meg Ryan & Tom Hanks. [Sleepless in Seattle, Joe Versus the volcano, You’ve Got Mail]

Drew Barrymore & Adam Sandler in.. The Wedding Singer, 50 First Dates

Julia Roberts & Richard Gere in Pretty Woman and Runaway Bride

Rano Karno & Yessy Gusman dalam… *huaaaaa… salah.. salah.. hehehe lagi ga ngomongin film Indonesia ya?

Sekian dulu untuk saat ini

I will give my personal reviews in the next post

Hey Blue.. !

I'll wait..
Now, I'm going red
that can give me lots of greens
But, if someday you want me to be blue
I'll be at your service right away

[ini metafora abis-abisan.. :P]

A French Lesson

Recently, I read an interesting book by David Sedaris, called ‘Me Talk Pretty One Day’.. In one of the chapter, I found the part very funny in a familiar way… (Familiar, coz I‘ve been through the same, when I was a student in CCF a long time ago) Quoted from page 174-178, he talks about this peculiarity that French has.. Of all the stumbling blocks inherent in learning this language, the greatest for me is the principle that each noun has a correspondence sex that affects both its articles and its adjectives. Because it is a female and lays eggs, a chicken is masculine. Vagina is masculine as well, while the word masculinity is feminine. Forced by the grammar to take a stand one way or the other, hermaphrodite is male and indecisiveness female. (Me laughing #1) I spent months searching for some secret code before I realized that common sense has nothing to do with it. (Me laughing #2 Alkisah gw membaca bagian ini di suatu warung di pinggir jalan, lagi nunggu diangkut.. Huhuhu emang gw cewe apaan? Dijemput booow) Hysteria, psychosis, torture, depression: I was told that if something is unpleasant, it’s probably feminine. This encourage me, but the theory was blown by such masculine nouns as murder, toothache, and Rollerblade (Me laughing #3). I have no problem learning the word themselves, it’s the sexes that trip me up and refuse to stick. …… I just can’t manage to keep my stories straight. Hoping I might learn through repetition. I tried using gender in my everyday English. “Hi, Guys” I’d say, opening a new box of paper clips, or “Hey, Hugh, have you seen my belt? I can’t find her anywhere” (Me laughing #4) … Nothing in France is free from the sexual assignment. I was leafing through the dictionary, trying to complete a homework assignment, when I noticed the French had prescribed genders for the various land masses and natural wonders we Americans had always thought of as sexless, Niagara Falls is feminine and, against all reason, the Grand Canyon is masculine. (Me laughing #5) Georgia and Florida are female, but Montana and Utah are Male. New England is a she, while the vast area we call the Midwest is just one big guy. I wonder whose job it was to assign these sexes in the first place. Did he do his work right there in the sanitarium, or did they rent him a little office where he could get away from all the noise? (Me laughing #6) My confidence hit a new low when my friend Adeline told me that French children often make mistakes, but never with the sex of their nouns. (Me laughing #7) “It’s just something we grow up with” she said. “We hear the gender once, and then think of it as part of the word.There’s nothing to it” After you read this, you would likely do one of the following: - cancel your registration in CCF or whichever French lesson in your town - do a full research on this matter (Masak sihhhhh ga ada aturannya??? dikau akan berpikir :P) - read the book (recommended) - do nothing - think of this as another rubbish blog post (How could you! Cuih puih!)