Alright all you sappy, creative, "hopeless romantic" writers...

But the girl is leaving? Where is she going, is it far away? The first thing that comes to mind is alien abduction, but that's probably not what you had in mind. People will remember forever a romantic comedy that ends that way though.

I'm seeing a big beautiful waterfall. No wait a water fountain... the Las Vegas dancing fountains!

They go separate ways in cabs and get stuck in traffic and one gets out... no.


One stands by the fountains and the other drives by in a cab after parting earlier. It's their song and the fountains are dancing. The other person gets out of the cab and they join for the song and dance by the dancing fountains. '


If you've never seen the dancing fountains you're missing out on a romantic scene.

Good luck, that's all I got.

Gotta admit, though, that'd be a friggin GREAT ending!

Truck stop hitch-hiking, maybe?

Runaways do it a lot. They ask to use somebody's CB, then ask for a ride to wherever.

Some stops have hundreds of trucks in them. He knows she's in one of them -- he can hear her on the CB. He has to make his overtures over the CB, to the heckling of a bunch of truckers.

Not sure if the typical romcom girlie would put herself in such a situation, but I haven't seen it done before.

I love this type of question, but it's hard when you don't know where they'd likely be for the situation to happen. I'm thinking it takes place in a city? How about glass elevators? She gets in, it's crowded and he can just see the the red coat that she is wearing and he uses the stairs. The elevator lets everyone off just as he's run himself to exhaustion down a zillion flights of stairs and he thinks he's got her, but when everyone gets out a group of women walk by wearing red as well (visiting choir? Mary Kay type sales reps?) and he can't find her in a sea of women.

A beach? She takes off on a crowded beach (maybe in a pant suit at first) and then removes it (gratutituous body shot here) to reveal amazing matching Victoria's secret underwear. The hero is looking for his woman in a sea of beautiful (and not so beautiful - perhaps there is also a pod (?) of sunbathing sea lions near by to contrast) bodies.

A tornado? She's claustrophopic (can't spell, afraid of closed in places) and won't go into the cellar, despite family or friends urging her too. He's racing the funnel to get to her and get her in the cellar. I know not too many people are going to race into a tornado, but for the woman he loves? Maybe.

Sorry, that's all I've got, can you tell I live in OK?

Sorry, I can't contribute to a story that might employ as it's star hero, one of the guys from Nsync or Backstreet Boys.

i really like cup's idea.

anyhooways, one of those new orleans funerals, dirges and all. lots of mourners and musicians to get in the way. hilarity ensues.

a nascar race. lots of horrible car wrecks. hilarity ensues. besides, what better way to save the damsel in distress than pushing her out of the way of the viagra and enzyte cars? (insert bad jokes at will.)

now, normally, maximum security prisons and trapped women don't mix very well. and this is no exception, however there you are. there's only one bus leaving... but is she leaving? riots, rape, shanks to the neck, hilarity, etc..

i've got to stop, i'm tearing up....

If she's leaving what if he has to find her at ....

*a Cracker Barrell restaurant --every roadtrip necessitates at least one meal must be consumed at a CB out here... PLUS you can rent books on tape which is essential for the long roadtrip

*laundromat --she has to pick up her laundry before leaving town

*the gas station where she's fighting with the owner over the cost per gallon ("you rippin' me off??) and loading up on road trip munchies

*he has to chase down the airport shuttle --you know the kind that cost $29 and stop for 30 other passengers at it meanders from your house to the airport

Something less mundane??

dpaterso said:

Wouldn't be 'cause you've got 'em tied up in your cellar, would it?

-Derek

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Not me! That would be my 18 year old daughter. She still refuses to believe that Lance Bass is gay.

As if she ever had a shot.

On the retail market floor at a knitting convention. Imagine several thousand mostly female shoppers, all wearing sweaters, shawls, scarves, clogging the aisles on the convention floor, which is filled with row after row of booths full of yarn, needles and sweaters, not to mention tote bags. Some of them have babies in strollers or on hips, there are a few toddlers, school age kids and teens, and just a few men. Lots of clumps of people talking and shopping, blocking the way. Imagine Christmas Eve shopping at the mall, mixed together with a meet-and-greet reception. There are security people at the doors taking tickets and checking for convention badges. It's laid out in a huge grid and any sight lines are constantly blocked by moving shoppers. The shoppers and the vendors range from Mennonites to NYC Stylistas, with everything in between.

As our hero tries to move quickly through the crowd, booth personnel keep trying to sell him things, stopping him to compliment him on the sweater he's wearing and to find out whether he made it himself.

I go to these things several times a year. There is absolutely nothing like it.

How about this. She's walking through the city to "Away".

He's doing his best Popeye Doyle, free-running, chase through the city. The obvious way to do it would be to inter-cut smooth, dolly-shots of her carrying her bags and handheld footage of him. Probably with his panting dubbed over it.

Anyway, he's gaining on her.

She's about to cross the street, he catches sight of her. He screams her name, she hears and turn round. She can't see him in the crowd, but can't bring herself to turn her back on him. While she's looking for him, the lights change and a bus ploughs her down just as their eyes meet.

Too Cheesy?

K1P1 said:

I go to these things several times a year. There is absolutely nothing like it.

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Scrapbook Expos.

Same scenario.

How can you only change the location and not the set up? Everything is related. If I say ocean liner, there has be a reason she's going on the ship...


Anyway.

Space Shuttle launching pad? (One of them is an astronaut)

Elevator (to the reception of her engagement party on the 34th floor).

Military recruitment office (she's going off to Iraq).

On to of a cliff....

An old boyfriend's yacht (heartbroken, she's going back to him).

A cruise ship. A yacht. (She's going to sail around the world)

Ski slope. She's going to disappear down the hill... catch her if you can.

a supermarket queue

How about, she's running through the terminal and he's chasing her, relentlessly, like a machine -- think Terminator. He sees her upahead and there's an opening and he takes out a spear gun, shoots her in the ass and pulls her back.

Huh? Huh?

That has romance written all over it, don't it?

I like Bottomless Cup's answer. I think that's a good take on it.

Oooooh!

Major 80s flashback!!!


Ok, so she's on the airplane.. and they're about to take off... and she looks out, and sees him next to his car, boombox in hands, held over his head, playing P. Gabriel's "In Your Eyes."

It's such a damn cheesy thing, she bursts into tears... and Grant gets so upset he starts screaming at her... and the stewardesses try to contain him, and he tells them to get their hands off him the damn dirty apes, so an Air Marshall beats the living snot out of them, but it's too late, an incident has happened, so they get kicked off the plane, and while Grant has his denouement with Wesley, Jessica runs out onto the tarmac to meet Shane, but the feds see her as an escaping prisoner and shoot her in the back 35 times.

Ok, need to work on the ending, but the rest of that is gold.

ding ding ding.

i think you have a winner spork.

honestly.

dclary's idea (except for the ending) keeps the feel of your script.

p.s. i have a couple more things ill email you about later.

She's going on for her first-ever shift dancing in a gentleman's club, and he needs to stop her before she goes on. But, he doesn't know which club, and he doesn't have any "ones" in his wallet.

Sky diving. She's going on her first ever jump. He was supposed to go with her but chickened out. Now he has to tell her he loves her so he pays a crop duster to catch up with the plane, screws his courage to the sticking place and jumps just as she does. He free falls to catch up, tells her he loves her, their parachutes deploy and they float to the ground and a close up shot of The Kiss.