Real Person // Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock // Don't Ruin A Perfectly Good Brunch

[moore_oaks]

Title: Don't Ruin A Perfectly Good Brunch
Fandom: Real Person
Characters: Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock
Prompt: #71; Resign.
Word Count: 911
Rating: PG
Summary: How fast can a cruise ship go, anyway?
Author's Notes: Yeah, I don't know them. This is just how I think it should be.

Comments

[joannacullen]

Wow. Also...WOW. That was really, really enjoyable. VERY real. I imagine them having discussed it....hm. Great stuff, Katie. :)

[moore_oaks]

Thanks! I actually did the dialogue outloud to test the reality of it, which was slightly awkward but worked out splendid. :D

[anniekins127]

FASNFASKNFSA.

marry her, man!

[moore_oaks]

I know. I know. [shakes head] Give him ten years, he'll come to his senses and she'll be gone.

[sandykeanufan]

Aww Katie , you made my heart break yet again... I'm not going to marry you Sandra. Doing another movie with me won’t change that. I’m sorry." These two really love the drama don't they?

You wrote another believable story Katie (are you sure this is fiction?... :) I do believe Sandy felt hurt when Keanu decided to jump ship and the stuff she said to Keanu could've easily been true. Maybe she did say the same to him when he told her about not doing Speed 2.

Oh also this one cracked me up : “Does Jan know you jumped ship?” Sandra pointed her fork at him. “Laugh at that pun and die.”

I enjoyed this story too Katie, ya know I like my Sandy/Keanu conflict stories too. I don't mind that there's no make-out scene yet.. you're building up the the tension... and that keeps me going back for more :)

[moore_oaks]

Seriously, if it was me, I would have thrown something at his head and been like, "HOW CAN YOU LEAVE ME WITH THIS CRAP?" They joked about it in an interview once where she said how he was lucky to get out and she asked the interviewer, "You saw it? Were you forced to?" But at the time, I think she was totally pissed about it.

It's funny because I was reading outloud what I had so far and then I just said, "I'm not going to marry you, Sandra." It kind of shocked me how it just came out, but on some level I think she had to think about it. They were so close and she IS a girl. :)

YES! I was hoping someone would pick up on the hilarity of that line (I myself had to stop writing and laugh for a bit). It was another line where I wrote the first part and I was like, "Wow, that's such a pun. Oh, Sandra would so pick up on that!" Type type type.

Well, if you enjoy the tension, then I'll just put making out on the back burner for the time being. Er, and I hope you enjoyed this little inside look at my writing process. :)

[danamulder]

OW! Ow ow ow ow ow ow!

This hurts, but in the you're-a-freaking-amazing-writer way.

*whimpers*

“Does Jan know you jumped ship?” Sandra pointed her fork at him. “Laugh at that pun and die.”

I giggled at that. Probably because I've used that last threat so many times.

I'm having trouble finding words, because I know they had plans to do Speed 2 together (and in a way I wish they had, because crap with Sandy and Keanu together would still be better than crap with Jason Patric, lol), and it must've been really hard for her to know she had to go through with it without him. After the build-up it would have to be.

The last part is really painful though, and even though this is fiction, I always get really uncomfortable for her when it's she that wants him and he's having none of it. Ack.

Wonderful work all the way around.

[moore_oaks]

LOL YES! I sat there for a few minutes saying, "Laugh at that pun and die." and then cracking up. I could so see her doing that and him biting the inside of his cheek because it is SO not the time to be laughing.

That's why I wrote this story, because I knew that had to be an issue for them. If not for one of the reasons I wrote than simply because he left her hanging. I seriously applaud her for doing that movie knowing full well it was going to do worse than Speed because Keanu wasn't in it. I actually saw Speed 2 in the theaters (supported Keandra, even back then!) and I remember my family and I being like, "Who's this guy?"

Good! Making people uncomfortable means I'm portraying things right ... right? LOL

[danamulder]

I have never seen more than a few scenes from Speed 2, and it'll probably stay that way. I've loved Sandy since I was 13, but I could not wrap my brain around Jack and Annie NOT being together. I think my parents saw it once, and Mom said it was pretty bad. So basically I skipped it to save my last film image of them laying in a crashed subway, making out. lol

I think maybe she's still a teensy bit bitter that he left her alone on that one, if the mentions of it in the TLH press mean anything. I think she's mostly over it, but I still think she wishes she hadn't had to do it, much less do it without him beside her.

Yes, making people uncomfortable means you're doing it right. Because life isn't all rainbows and puppies and happily ever afters. Unfortunately.

[moore_oaks]

I wonder if she could have gotten out of it as well, or just decided to stay with it regardless. [ponders]

[illusory_thrill]

I thought that was really good. I liked the pseudo twist at the end. The whole time I'm thinking she's being really petty and selfish, but then I realize that her reasoning for wanting to do the movie together so badly was to salvage their relationship. Very interesting and well done.

[moore_oaks]

Ha ha! I never even thought of her that way, but I can see that.

Thanks for reading it. One last question ... does it sound realistic? Because I have been recently called out on not making the characters sound real, having 'life', or the story not seeming to be real. Thoughts? The truth is nice. :)

[illusory_thrill]

I think that's pretty hard to say. We don't really know how celebrities talk amongst themselves. For all we know, it could be just the way you imagine it.

That said, I'm a dialogue whore and I didn't really have any problems with yours.