The Neil McCauley “A Book about Metals” Award for Best Line from the Movie
"Do you believe in love at first sight? I bet you don't. You're probably too sensible for that."
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- Lucy's monologue is pretty unassailable among rom-com speeches, if not at the level of "I'm just a girl" or Tom Hanks at the end of You've Got Mail.
- Coming in the first third, it sets up a more nuanced, human heroine motivation and innovates on the form.
- Ashley Bartlett-Bacon, Peter's real fiancee, has a killer line calling him a one-balled bastard and could have been a heat-check nominee alongside Wanda.
- Jack's speech on leaning versus hugging is a good rom-com trope, though Pullman is preferred less verbose.
- The hosts agree on the monologue; an act-one monologue is called revolutionary.