The movie How to lose a Guy in 10 days depicts the journey of a woman who wanted to make a guy fall in love with her then make him ditch her. The twist of the story is that the guy whom she picked had the task of making her fall in love with him. In the end though, they both fell in love with each other.
Let us analyze the movie by the core concepts of EVT.
The movie's storyline is heavy with EVT-inspired scenes. In their first meeting, the guy expects the girl to be cool because she knew how to create the image. She didn't immediately invade his private space, yet she portrayed an image that she also liked the guy. However as the week progressed, she began invading his space more and more and also portrayed out-of-context behavior, therefore leading to our next topic, violation valence.
As the girl tries to make the guy ditch her, she displays behavior that has great negative value of violation valence. By applying EVT, we can see that the behavior she displays-which is commonly regarded as bad behavior in American society-has great negative violation valence. If the guy have not been tasked to make her fall in love with him, he would have ditched her completely because of she was violating every rule in the how-to-get-a-guy book.
Communication reward valence now comes into the picture. The guy doesn't want to ditch the girl even if she was committing a lot of social violations because he knew that he had more to gain if he kept her and make her fall in love with him. As the prospect of the gains he would receive from keeping her far outweighs the losses he would get, he tried very hard not to ditch her.
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can you please be very specific on the discussion of reward?
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Both the girl and the guy agreed to date one another because they thought that the reward they would reap will be far above the losses they will get.
For the girl, she believes that getting to write anything she likes weighs more than any consequences she might get.
Likewise, the guy believes that getting his "frost" diamonds famous weighs more than any consequences he might get.
Therefore, both of them agreed to date one another.
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