A Hopeful Romantic

For the past few days, I have been watching this one movie, Syndey White. A modern day adapted version of the old fairy tale Snow White, Syndey White was not a huge blockbuster hit and it is a bit teeny-bobbish in its content, but overall, a really cute movie with a good message. Amanda Bynes plays a college freshman who lacks the refined, elegant graces of the Kappa sorority but brings in a fresh, comic face to the otherwise stuck up Kappas. Somehow through her interactions she has snagged the attention of the BMOC, Tyler Prince. Due to a humiliating experience with the Kappas, Sydney will not have anything to do with the Greeks which Tyler is one of the leading ones. But Tyler is not willing to give up. Thus, the story line leads the watcher to this very scene...

The scene begins in the college library with Sydney studying at a cubicle. She is looking at the names carved on the desk when a red rose is placed on her desk. The guy who placed it there begins to sing a melody. Sydney of course is confused and tells the guy that he has the wrong desk. A few seconds later another rose is placed on her desk, and another guy adds his tune to the first one. This happens two more times until there is a four man harmony humming a melody. Then they begin to sing, "When I See You Smile" with Tyler Prince stepping out from behind a stack of books to serenade Sydney. Sydney asks Tyler if he has lost his mind for him to only answer that no, but that he will keep singing until she agrees to go out with him. She says no, so he begins to sing again which she quickly says yes to shut him up. Although Sydney is embarrassed by the whole scene, she really likes Tyler and enjoys the roses he gave her. Tyler walks away with a confident smile and disappears behind the stack of books from which he came.

For the realist in me, I know that it is only a scene in a movie that these actors were paid to play. Even though at first, I thought the scene was corny and if it happened to me in real life, I would be embarrassed and ducking my head as Sydney did.

But the hopeful romantic in me finds the scene very enduring and my favorite scene in the whole movie.