Released in cinemas on Friday is The Five Year Engagement (produced by Judd Apatow) a film that’s premise is, well, exactly how it sounds. Tom (Jason Segel) and Violet (Emily Blunt) do the easy part: they get engaged. Not so easy: actually getting married. The high-flying, career focussed Violet continually delays “I do” in exchange for a job in Michigan, much to her family’s disdain (“Grandparents have a tendency to die, you know”). Violet isn’t so concerned, and it’s the kind of total non-dilemma that I think Blunt’s character should be praised for — who cares when you get married, or if you get married, or who you marry, or if you stay engaged for five years, ten years, forever?
Which is the precise reason why Violet is a Fierce Fiancé, in a totally non-crazy, non-bridezilla way. I could detail a list of bride catastrophes starting with Kim Kardashian and ending with Anne Hathaway in Bride Wars but that would be horribly boring and degrading and would be tapping in to all those nasty stereotypes dictating that a woman about to get married is a crazy person. To prove that stereotype wrong are Portable’s favorite, feistiest and feircest fictional fiancés (after the jump).
Lesha Sandor
On the way home the Australians played a number of matches in India, where Hassett set up an Indian record with 187 and 124 not out against the Princes XI. He toured New Zealand with W. A. Brown’s team, and then led Victoria to the State Championship in 1946-47, when his average was 141.75. That year Hassett played in all five Tests against Hammond’s team, and in the First Test he and Bradman established a new third-wicket record for England-Australia games with a stand of 276. In the four Tests in which he took part against India in 1947-48 Hassett’s average was 110.66, his highest score 198 not out.
April 26, 2013 | 2:24 pm