Some love stories are zappy; you look at someone, fall in love, and go on being the two peas in a pod with a tag of “match made in heaven.” Quick and easy.Some love stories, however, take a longer, stirring route. Sometimes they begin as an attempt to dodge (or as a cover-up for) chaos, and sometimes they are part of a scheme, a big lie. But it’s all good as long as, despite not having started at a genuine place, they end up in one.And that’s the soul of such fake-dating plotlines in Rom-Coms. They work because the protagonists start as puppeteers of their own narrative and end up being the puppets in the narrative that fate has planned for them. Watching a lie turn on its head can be quite fun and endearing.These nine films show how potent even the pretense of love can be.9 Films Where Love Starts As a Lie, But Ends Up As a True Relationship1. It Happened One Night (1934)Written by: Robert Riskin | Directed by: Frank Capra Ellie Andrews (Claudette Colbert) is a runaway heiress carrying a $10,000 reward for her informant. She teams up with Peter Warne (Clark Gable), a freshly out-of-work reporter, to reach her newlywed husband, whom her father dislikes. Peter is often at odds with Ellie, but helps her only in hopes of the exclusive story to relaunch his career. On their way, they pretend to be a married couple to avoid suspicion, which forces them to share the...
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