Who else peeked at Anyone But You?

"You'll Never Feel READY to Walk Over"

Next Monday you'll feel more confident. After the gym you'll feel more confident. After one more drink you'll feel more confident. After you get a better haircut, a better jacket, a better job.

You've been "getting ready" for two years.

She's standing ten feet away right now. She'll be gone in four minutes. No amount of preparation will manufacture the courage that only comes from moving your feet.

Walk over. Stumble through the first sentence. Let it be clumsy. Let it be imperfect. You will feel more alive in those ten seconds than you have all month.

BaronOfHair

Master Don Juan

Feb 17, 2024

And what were your thoughts in regards to the messages it conveys (or doesn't)about attraction, love, and romance?

My off-the-cuff thoughts:

-Some of the banter between leads Glenn Powell and Sydney Sweeney is OK, even if the two of them don't exude much spark as a couple

-The by-now-entirely-too-familiar double standard on women physically striking men shows up twice in ABY, and is played for laughs. I suppose we should all be grateful that Bea/Sweeney's actions here are just obnoxious, rather than malicious

-Glenn Powell here is the closest thing US cinema has come to creating a homegrown Hugh Grant

"Nervous Around Beautiful Women? There's a Rule for That"

I could talk to any woman I wasn't attracted to. Charming, funny, relaxed. Then a gorgeous woman looked my way and I'd become a sweating, babbling mess.

The fix took me years to find and ten minutes to learn. Nervousness and excitement are the same physical state — pounding heart, adrenaline, flushed face. Your brain just picks the label. And you can pick a better one.

Rule 16 shows you how. You feel the nerves, relabel them as excitement, and let that energy pour out as enthusiasm. Women notice the guy radiating it. They always do.