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SpocktorWho
Since: May, 2011
17th Aug, 2019 01:23:54 PM
I think the woman would be considered a Defrosting Ice Queen.
I could have sworn that this was a trope, generally from 80's-00's films. Where the love interest or female protagonist is a hard working, no non-sense executive who tends to be a workaholic, learns to love again because of the guy; who tends to be a slob, underperforming, slackster emotionally-cognizant type.
Is this a trope or a subversion/inversion of an existing trope? I think this has happened in movies like What Women Want and The Proposal, maybe Intolerable Cruelty and Pretty Woman might be adjacent to this kind of thing??? I think even Family Guy made a reference to it.