01/19 Art of Seduction

Vocabulary
流氓: hoodlum
cold shoulder: 【口】冷淡,冷漠待人
fling: 可指短暫、一時興起的交往
flirt: 打情罵俏
forbidden love: 被禁止的愛
hit on someone: 追異性時、對某異性出手（不是打）
horny: 【美】【俗】好色的
porno: 色情的


sex vs. gender
sex does not necessarily mean the action of making love, but also “gender”
stages of flirting:
casual flirting => flirting => serious flirting => seduction
what seduction is:
Seduction isn’t making someone do what they don’t want to do. Seduction is enticing someone into doing what they secretly want to do already.


Hitch
Alex "Hitch" Hitchens (Will Smith) is a professional "date doctor", or consultant as Hitch terms himself, who coaches other men in the art of having the perfect date with the woman of their dreams.

While coaching one of his clients, Albert Brennaman (Kevin James), who is smitten with celebrity Allegra Cole (Amber Valletta), Hitch finds himself falling for Sara (Eva Mendes), a gossip columnist who is determined to unmask and ruin the so-called date doctor after one of his "clients" (whom Hitch refused to work with) had a one-night stand with her best friend. However, where Albert and Allegra's relationship continues to progress, Hitch finds that none of his tried and tested methods are working on himself, despite being a master of the art. After Hitch is unmasked, he and Sara break up, and Allegra and Albert follow suit. Finally, Hitch confronts Allegra and convinces her to reunite with Albert, before reconciling with Sara. In the process, he makes the startling discovery that he doesn't really do anything significant, and that most of his customers (particularly Albert) really were successful by just being themselves. In the end Albert and Allegra get married and celebrate their marriage with Hitch and Sara, who are back together again. Hitch, reflecting on love's unpredictability, addresses the audience in the last line, "Basic principles... There are none."



Hitch: http://www.sonypictures.com/homevideo/hitch/index.html