Fourth Date Marriage: Difference between revisions

It seems in your general 90 minute movie, audiences are pretty willing to accept that a couple will progress to the point of getting engaged, or at least to a fairly intense point, in a matter of days or weeks, rarely more than a month. This isn't all that realistic: not that relationships with short courtships prior to the engagement haven't worked in real life, but successful ones are fairly rare.

 

 

In the gay community there is a stereotype of "Lesbian U-Haul Syndrome," in which a lesbian couple will move in together very early in a relationship, leading to many of the same problems.

** In the second Cinderella sequel, this is justified by the fact that holding a woman's hand should tell the prince if she's the one. He doesn't feel it when he's made to think Anastasia was the girl he danced with, or when Anastasia is magically made to look like Cindy.

*** To be very fair to ''A Twist in Time'', Cinderella and the Prince had been [[Happily Married]] for a year before Lady Tremaine magically turned back the clock and they had to fall in love all over again. The movie seemed to imply that ''something'' of their memories of that year remained.

* ''[[Lady and The Tramp]]'': Technically they had only one really long date. And a lot of fights. But things work out in the end!

* [[Subverted]] in ''[[Beauty and The Beast (Disney)|Beauty and The Beast]]'', where it's strongly indicated that Belle was in the castle for at least a few months, during which she and the Beast gradually fell in love, and then married some unspecified time after his transformation.

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