{"id":4151,"date":"2005-04-28T14:10:04","date_gmt":"2005-04-28T18:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/httpblogslawharvardeduceerock4\/2005\/04\/28\/garden-state-v"},"modified":"2005-04-28T14:10:04","modified_gmt":"2005-04-28T18:10:04","slug":"garden-state-vs-bridget-jones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ceerock\/2005\/04\/28\/garden-state-vs-bridget-jones\/","title":{"rendered":"Garden State vs. Bridget Jones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a3152'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It looks like my speaking out against <A href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ceerock\/2005\/04\/22#a3133\">twentysomething male fantasy movies<\/A> about depressed jerks and the saintly women who save them may turn into an outreach\/intervention. I received this via email:<BR><BR><br \/>\n<DIV style=\"MARGIN-LEFT: 40px\"><SPAN style=\"FONT-STYLE: italic\">Sounds exactly like the script my flat mate has been writing for the<\/SPAN><BR><SPAN style=\"FONT-STYLE: italic\">last year and a bit. I e-mailed him some excerpts to see if he comes to<\/SPAN><BR><SPAN style=\"FONT-STYLE: italic\">his senses \ud83d\ude42<\/SPAN><BR><\/DIV><br \/>\n<P>I&#8217;m happy to help. But as I told this person, I don&#8217;t want to frustrate anyone&#8217;s creative impulses. Perhaps every twentysomething male needs to churn out one of these types of scripts in order to exorcise those demons. Then they can move on to something more interesting.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>I&#8217;m trying to think of the equivalent female-fantasy movies, but am drawing a blank. That could be because there aren&#8217;t so many scripts by women, or it could be my own personal blind spot concerning my own gender. Maybe it&#8217;s the woman-who-dares-to-find-herself-and-in-so-doing-finds-Mr.Right? Any help, guys? What are the female fantasy cliches that annoy you in films? Anything with Meg Ryan or Tom Hanks in it? I&#8217;d say something like Bridget Jones would be an obvious choice, but it&#8217;s actually so old-fashioned that its attitudes seem fresh again. A woman daring to admit she wants a husband! That just isn&#8217;t done.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like my speaking out against twentysomething male fantasy movies about depressed jerks and the saintly women who save them may turn into an outreach\/intervention. I received this via email: Sounds exactly like the script my flat mate has been writing for thelast year and a bit. I e-mailed him some excerpts to see [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just-movies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58QoK-14X","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ceerock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ceerock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ceerock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ceerock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/92"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ceerock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ceerock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ceerock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ceerock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ceerock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}