by Janet Manley
Today's release of Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston rom-com vehicle, “Just Go With It,” will blaze away the winter chill with its sunny twin rays of confusion and misdirection.
Sandler’s character, Danny, uses a wedding band to attract women. When the bodacious Palmer (Brooklyn Decker) falls for his trick but insists she can't date a married man, Danny asks his long-suffering assistant, Katherine (Aniston), to pretend to be his wife so he can project cozy family vibes, act out a divorce, and net the babe. Pretend to be married to your boss? Involve your precious kiddies in the ruse? Go through with a fake divorce? That sounds like a scenario for surefire moral turpitude and occupational chaos, right? Not according to Aniston’s character, who decides to “just go with it.” Not to worry, on the big screen, no one ever gets caught in his or her own web of lies!
Although Katherine might seem a trifle hasty, she is not the first illustrious resident of a rom-com to feign myopia in service of plot. In fact, ridiculous scenarios and character short-sightedness have combined to produce box-office bullion time and time again. Below, we take a look at the golden era of dupes — the narratologically complex ‘90s — in which characters, in solidarity with their audience, willingly suspended their own disbelief and dismissed all instincts to "just tell the truth," deciding instead, “Eh, might as well just go with it!”
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Today's release of Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston rom-com vehicle, “Just Go With It,” will blaze away the winter chill with its sunny twin rays of confusion and misdirection.
Sandler’s character, Danny, uses a wedding band to attract women. When the bodacious Palmer (Brooklyn Decker) falls for his trick but insists she can't date a married man, Danny asks his long-suffering assistant, Katherine (Aniston), to pretend to be his wife so he can project cozy family vibes, act out a divorce, and net the babe. Pretend to be married to your boss? Involve your precious kiddies in the ruse? Go through with a fake divorce? That sounds like a scenario for surefire moral turpitude and occupational chaos, right? Not according to Aniston’s character, who decides to “just go with it.” Not to worry, on the big screen, no one ever gets caught in his or her own web of lies!
Although Katherine might seem a trifle hasty, she is not the first illustrious resident of a rom-com to feign myopia in service of plot. In fact, ridiculous scenarios and character short-sightedness have combined to produce box-office bullion time and time again. Below, we take a look at the golden era of dupes — the narratologically complex ‘90s — in which characters, in solidarity with their audience, willingly suspended their own disbelief and dismissed all instincts to "just tell the truth," deciding instead, “Eh, might as well just go with it!”
Read More...
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