An e-mail exchange between myself and the Roommate, on the subject of one of romantic comedies, hookers, and the inherent hotness of Ewan McGregor.

Also, the title of this post makes it sound much more interesting than it really is. You’re forewarned.

Me: Persuasion is better than Sense and Sensibility, I think.

Roommate: They both sound good. I just dont know what I want.

Me: Persuasion is much better.

Roommate: Ok, I’ll think about it. Is it pretty romantic?

Me: Not really. I mean, obviously, a little, but not over the top romantic. Anne is pragmatic. And Wentworth is kind of bitter about being dumped. Typical rom-com without all the shloopy bits.

Roommate: lol… You just like summed it up in the most contemporary terms.

Me: It’s true. Well, pretty much. That’s what I took out of it, anyway. Honestly, Jane Austen wrote the plot to every romantic comedy ever backbefore movies even existed. Well, except the ones with the prostitutes…

Roommate: Oh prostitutes. They make everything so interesting though!

Me: Meh. I hated Pretty Woman. Stupid Julia Roberts. Everyone’s always like “It’s so romantic” and I’m like, “You do realize that Richard Gere picked up a whore, right?”

R: Bahaha… I also hate that movie, I have never seen it in its entirety.And she’s not a real hooker. She’s not interesting to a story. I mean hookers with a history. I want to see Monster for that reason.

Me: Well, that’s the thing, right, that makes it romantic. Like, Julia isn’t a “real” hooker. In fact, Richard Gere was her first client! But that doesn’t mitigate the fact that she’s STILL A HOOKER. It’s not romantic. I mean, do you honestly think they would stay together after the movie ends? Like, he climbs up the balcony and then they get together and “omg, his life is changed!” but he’s still this douche who picks up hookers, and she’ll always be a hooker, and he’ll always keep throwing that in her face. And the thing is, she’ll never be independent, she’ll always be dependent on Richard Gere for money and stuff, because she has no skills/background to use to support herself, except her hooking. So, she HAS to stay with him, even though he’s out picking up random hookers, and that makes her EVEN MORE of a whore.

Clearly, I’ve put way too much thought into this. I always just felt like Pretty Woman glamorized prostitution.

I liked Moulin Rouge, which was kind of about a hooker, but it doesn’t have a happy ending, so that’s ok.

I’ve never seen Monster. But I see what you mean.

R: You have been giving this a lot of thought. And yes Moulin Rouge wasbetter, but she was a courtesan, like in a show type thing, not a on the corner, thigh high boots type. She had more class, if you can say a working woman has some.

Me: A courtesan is just a really high-class hooker. But at least she had integrity, you know. She didn’t get with the millionaire guy because she didn’t love him!
I still shut that movie off half-way through though…I like the happy dancy bits, not the sad lung cancer depression parts.

R: Agreed, like the diamonds scene is so good. But I don’t love Ewan anyways. And it was in Paris. Much better.lol

Me: You DON’T love Ewan?! What’s wrong with you!
FRIENDSHIP OVER.

(He was hot in Emma, even with the bad mullet-thing. And in Star Wars, even with the stupid braid and then with the beard. Also in that crappy Big Fish movie. Whatever. He’s hot. lol)

And, thus, we came back around to the original topic of conversation: Roommate wanted book recommendations, I suggested Jane Austen, and the conversation devolved from there. Just one of the many examples of a conversation veering randomly from one topic to the next.