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- noun A situation in which the persons in a potential romantic couple meet for the first time in a way that is considered adorable, entertaining, or amusing.
Etymologies
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Accidentally coined by director Ernst Lubitsch, who had difficulty speaking English, to describe the encounter between the characters played by Gary Cooper and Claudette Colbert in Bluebeards Eighth Wife.
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sarahatlee commented on the word meet cute
where the bubbly but wise romantic lead meets the uptight but grounded romantic lead and one of them spills something on the other but ten minutes later they've formed an indelible attraction because the screenplay says they did. Look for the meet cute about thirty seconds into the trailer.
October 27, 2007
chained_bear commented on the word meet cute
And about ten minutes into the film. ;) In screenwriting it's called the inciting event.
October 27, 2007
uselessness commented on the word meet cute
Crazy logic those rom coms have! I admit having been tempted to do mean things ("accidents," of course) to various cute girls I've known, in hopes that real life would turn out to be just like a movie. But alas, real life ain't.
October 27, 2007