"Yeah, but she doesn't know that yet."

Henry: She deserves better than him.
Rudy Holt: Now you're talking.
Henry: Better than me, too.
Rudy Holt: Yeah, but she doesn't know that yet.

I watched the movie DEDICATION last night.

It seems like a plot line that always works. Take one man or one woman. Put them in a place where they have to choose between two partners. One LOOKS like a good choice but isn't. The other LOOKS like a bad choice but is. Stir them up and watch what happens. Grin.

This can be slightly modified so that both candidates look like good choices or look like bad choices but for different reasons.

In the course of the movie the one who IS the better candidate has to do something to offend the prospective partner who then rejects them for the less qualified partner who has not made a mistake yet. In the American versions, the offending candidate figures out a way to apologize in time.

Sometimes, the more qualified but less qualified LOOKING candidate does not recognize that the relationship is a possibility while the less qualified but more qualified LOOKING candidate knows it is if he or she can keep some secret a secret. 

How to get it all right? Thats the question.

Comments

[mommalibrarian]

Best thing is there is usually no violence and a happy ending. I call books of this nature 'popcorn'. We all need some 'popcorn' in our lives.