Ask Spling – Episode 8: What’s a movie love lesson that would actually get you blocked?

In Episode 8 of ‘Ask Spling: Reel Talk and Real Life’… Spling answers: “What’s a movie love lesson that would actually get you blocked?” – a question from Rollick P.

When it comes to Hollywood, there are things that we just kind of blindly accept with romcoms and love lessons. One of the love lessons is no just means try harder. And when you have these script writers on your side, obviously you can keep doing that until something works. But in reality, and maybe in films like About Time where you can rewind time and just try different things a thousand times, the reality is that it’s probably not going to work.

For instance, Say Anything with John Cusack arriving with his boombox at 3:00 a.m. That’s going to be a noise complaint. That’s going to be police arriving. That’s going to be someone jumped over the fence or the wall and is now uh lurking in the property. That’s probably not the way to go about it.

And then of course, you’ve got the jumbotron big grand gesture at some kind of stadium. It’s a good idea to actually give them a little bit of forewarning, especially if you’re wanting to get a good affirmative response. It’s obviously a big grand romantic gesture and you are gambling with that moment because that pressure, that societal pressure you’re placing on that person to say yes is just uh kind of unfair.

And then of course the airport sprint. When it comes to love, you can get away with almost anything. It’s all fair in love and war. But when it comes to the airport, chances are if you skip over any security check or bypass anything, you’re probably going to be detained and uh beaten up or something.