“Meet cute” predates Roger Ebert. It was a Hollywood term in the 30s and 40s.
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I think what elfkin477 means is that in the movie Eli Wallach plays a screenwriter who worked in Hollywood’s golden age who actually explains to Kate Winslet’s character what the definition of a “meet cute” in the movies is.
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Oh. I thought he was talking about that Cary Grant / Katherine Hepburn movie (which I haven’t seen) Holiday.
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Met cute?
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She’s so conflicted. She feels like crying. Damn period!
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Dammit Astro, finish the story!?! Does she knock? Do they go to dinner? Happily Ever After or Hot Game of Slapity-Ass that night after dinner?
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MeanJoe
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Dammit Astro, finish the story!?! Does she knock? Do they go to dinner? Happily Ever After or Hot Game of Slapity-Ass that night after dinner?
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MeanJoe
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She knocks, he answers. She tells him she hasn’t been able to get him out of her head since that night she found him in her bed. She says she knows he’s thought about it too, and she’d like to have a quick bite to eat and maybe a drink to chat about it. He agrees, but says he can’t stay out late.
So they go to a nice little bistro just down the way, have a great time, and entirely too much to drink. When they get back to the apartment they discover they have BOTH left their keys inside. He offers to climb up through her apartment and let her in, and then do the same for his. She says “No way, I keep my patio door securely locked these days. Can I crash on your sofa?” He flushes, and says, “I guess it’ll be ok.” He climbs up out of sight. She goes up the stairs to his apartment. The door opens and she goes in.
The next morning her apartment door opens and a disheveled, and very shamefaced guy comes out into the hallway to knock on his own apartment door. Cut to the interior of his apartment where the neighbor girl is cuddled up with his girlfriend and the girls share a quiet smile.
Enjoy,
Steven
[5 minutes ago…]
Hey! I know what meet cute means! It was in The Holiday!
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Huh…did they really steal some critic slang that is only 10 years old and try to pawn it off as vintage?? Typical Hollywood…
see others talking about The Holiday
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Aha! Third-hand vindication…sort of. Sorry I doubted you, Hollywood.
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Well, now that I’ve read the thread and have it open, might as well post something…
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Met cute?
It’s where a young, single man comes home after a night of pub hopping with his buds and realizes he’s forgotten the keys to his apartment so he climbs up the balcony, and entering the apartment collapses on the bed. Shortly thereafter he is awakened by a terrible screaming of a young woman in flannel pajamas with a bath towel on her head. He is apparently in his neighbor’s apartment and is curled up on her bed.
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If you make it that he goes to Leningrad by mistake and his key works in the lock of the apartement that he goes to because all Soviet locks are crap, you have Irony of Fate