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Friday, October 17, 2003

WINDING UP THIS BLOG 

So, that's how you decide it's time to wrap -- when the last entry is dated a month ago.

There's a tonne of solid research info in this blog on the subject of how to write meaningful, authentic scenes of romance and sex -- so much so that I'm keeping it around as an archive, at least until year's end.

However, I'm all out of canny remarks to make on current examples.

Of course, I loved Lost in Translation. I'm in awe of how Bill Murray's character discovers that he can still connect with a member of the opposite sex on an emotional, yet not necessarily sexual level, and as a result recovers respect for the life he's let go shallow. Freakin' brilliant subtlety, with powerful misdirection, unexpected dialogue and acres of subtext.

But how many offensively one-dimensional couples do I need to see in Hollywood Homicide, Once Upon a Time in Mexico and other drivel before something that remarkable appears?

So...lest I sound like a broken record bemoaning the same old sloppy, lazy tack that finds girls and boys falling in love with each other's dimples (see Intolerable Cruelty), this is it for me on this subject.

Check out, print out and learn from the stuff
I've gathered. And start writing better romance scenes, all you battle-scarred warriors of love.

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