From Flower Vase to Film Emperor in Hollywood

In the age of social networks, emoticons are all the rage around the world. There is a little boy who looks awkward no matter what expression he makes, fully interpreting the new era's "awkward but polite" attitude, and can be called an emoticon master.

Right now, Joel is showing such a smile, with the corners of his mouth raised but his shoulders shrinking and his body leaning back. The whole person is tightly attached to the back of the chair and the window, like a rat forced into a dead corner, with an exceptionally funny expression.

This scene is inherently funny.

In Hollywood movies, there are countless romantic love types emerging one after another. After nearly a century, if type movies want to continue to impress the audience, they must spend more thought, after all, each generation of audience is harder to fool than the last.

Right now, this is the case—

Wait, they forgot, this is not a romantic love movie!

Back and forth, the two people discussed the issue of naming hair colors, but Waterweed Head quickly became exhausted, and the whole person curled up on the train seat to replenish energy. Just when people thought she had run out of energy, without warning, she suddenly jumped up.

"By the way, my name is Clementine."

"I'm Joel."

Waterweed Head grabbed Joel's right hand, "Hey, Joel." She held Joel's right hand meaningfully and tightly. Joel tried to break free but failed, "Don't make fun of my name, oh, you shouldn't do that, you're very polite."

Joel looked confused, "I don't think your name is funny."

"Huckleberry-Hound."

Joel: … … "I don't know what that means."

Instead, Waterweed Head looked surprised, "'Huckleberry-Hound', what's wrong with you, are you an idiot?"

Joel shrugged lightly, "Some people have said that."

Waterweed Head—should be Clementine—ignored Joel's self-deprecation and began to sing the theme song of the cartoon "Huckleberry-Hound."

"Oh my darling, oh my darling, Clementine, you are lost and gone forever, dreadful sorry, Clementine."

"Haven't heard it?"

Joel looked at the girl in front of him who was happily singing nursery rhymes and exposing herself. The smile at the corner of his mouth could not be controlled and gently raised, but he immediately realized that this was impolite, and he quickly restrained the corner of his mouth and controlled himself.

"Sorry." He said, "But the name is very nice, it means merciful, right? Merciful and generous?"

Clementine put her chin on the back of the chair, keeping her eyes level with Joel's, and said in a deliberately deep voice, "Unfortunately, the name doesn't match the person. I am a woman who always seeks revenge."

Joel was stunned, "God, I wouldn't think so."

Clementine looked confused, "How can you tell?"

Joel: … … "I don't know, it's just… …" Under Clementine's open gaze, Joel panicked and looked away, lowering his head, "I don't know, it's just… …you seem like a nice person."

Clementine couldn't believe it and became furious without warning, "Oh, so now I'm nice? God, don't you know any other adjectives?"

Because when they were talking about the hair color issue just now, Joel had rejected Clementine's imagination, and the conversation fell into awkwardness slightly. For this reason, Joel restrainedly said "I'm just trying to be nice"; in a turn, the conversation fell into awkwardness for the second time, and Joel used the same adjective again.

Clementine simply left her seat and sat down next to Joel.

"I don't want to be a good person. I don't want to be a good person, and I don't need others to be nice to me."

Clementine raised her voice, which made Joel at a loss. He tried to say something, looking around, fearing that it would affect the other people in the carriage, but in the end he just nodded lightly, "Got it." The voice was almost inaudible.

Clunk, clunk, only the sound of train wheels hitting the rails was surging.

"Joel?" Finally, Clementine broke the silence, "Joel, right?"

Joel: … … "Right."

Clementine, "Sorry I yelled at you just now, I'm in a bad mood today."

She directly approached Joel, the two of them sitting shoulder to shoulder, and put her left hand on the back of the chair, over Joel's back.

Joel tensed up, his entire back against the window and the carriage, trying to back away, but found that he had nowhere to escape.

Such a scene is extremely funny.

Clementine continued to say to herself, "I have to admit an embarrassing thing, I really like that you are nice, at this moment… …" She was completely unaware that Joel was at a loss, his eyes, hands, legs, and body did not know how to place them, "I don't know what I will think in the next moment, but at this moment, I am very glad that you are nice."

Joel: An awkward but polite smile.

Clementine didn't get any response, only an awkward but polite smile. She laughed herself.

Joel took a deep breath, "I, uh, I have some things, uh, some things, need to, deal with it."

The words were intermittent and fragmented—

The camera focused on Joel's face, a close-up, and then you could see something intruding into the focus on the left side of the camera screen. A strand of green hair entered the lens on the side of Joel's obviously stiff facial lines, and then Clementine's eyes fixed on Joel's face, getting closer and closer.

Almost able to feel the breath.

Hilarious!

The entire Angelica Film Center burst into laughter. Blair and Karen were laughing so hard they were bending over.

The beginning of the movie was slightly gloomy and slow, but no one expected that it would unfold like this, with a position reversed on the basis of traditional romantic love movies.

The effect is perfect.

Watching Kate Winslet aggressively flirting with Anson Wood, that scene is so beautiful, no one knows if there will be another chance to see it in the future.

Rather than saying it is a plot, it is better to say that the comedic effect conveyed by the body language and eye exchange of the two actors made the laughter of the audience uncontrollable.

That look, that expression, is like an alien approaching a victim.

Clementine finally understood what Joel meant, "Oh, oh! Sorry."

Clementine silently retreated embarrassedly and pulled away, sliding back to the other end of the chair. This action made Joel feel sorry instead.

Joel was apologizing, Clementine waved her hands repeatedly to indicate that it was okay. In a turn, a heavy punch hit Joel's shoulder hard, comparable to the boxing champion Ali.

Joel: Eyes widened, mouth opened, silent with pain.

An expression made the Angelica Film Center collectively crazy, with thunderous laughter—

In 2001, an unconventional Korean movie "My Sassy Girl" was born and became a phenomenal work. Although the movie was not fully released in overseas theaters, it spread to different countries and regions through DVD distribution.

So, are Clementine and Joel now performing "My Sassy Girl"?

Looking at Joel's bewildered and pitiful expression, the audience on the scene laughed so hard that they were falling over. Wait, is this definitely Charlie Kaufman's creative intention?

But thinking about it carefully, Charlie Kaufman has a label for all of his works: comedy.

In this way, it doesn't seem so strange.

Clementine was very sensible and did not continue to "entangle" Joel. When Joel arrived at his destination, he left the train alone, watching the two people never intersect again. According to the traditional romantic love comedy routine, another coincidence will be created to make them meet next.

However, Charlie Kaufman doesn't follow the usual path—

Joel came out of the train station parking lot and saw that figure in an orange top and green hair on the side of the road. He pulled over and parked.

"Hi!"