Example Group’s Analysis of Crazy, Stupid, Love (Chapter 8 terms)Jennifer Millspaugh, Kristina Curt, Kyle Stewart, Nina Dolor, David Black

Terms: Pre-interaction Awareness, Initiation Stage

Pre-Interaction awareness

• Pre-Interaction Awareness – first stage in which potential partners or friends observe each other without having direct interaction

• In Crazy, Stupid, Love, this stage occurs when Jacob notices Hannah at the bar and Hannah’s friend Liz notices Jacob, but they have yet to talk.

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Initiation Stage• Initiation Stage – first

conversations occur between potential friends or romantic partners.

• This stage occurs in the movie when Jacob approaches Hannah and Liz and introduces himself. He tries to buy Hannah a drink but she gets up to leave and brushes Jacob off.

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Terms: Stagnation Stage, Individualization Stage

Stagnation Stage• Stagnation Stage – the

relationship loses its vitality and partners become complacent, taking each other for granted.

• In the movie Crazy, Stupid, Love, we meet Cal and Emily in this stage. They are having dinner, but we can tell Cal is complacent by his lack of proper shoes. Their conversation is bored and forced.

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Individualization Stage• Individualization Stage –

partners tend to define their lives more as individuals and less as a couple.

• We see this stage in the movie when Cal decides to take another woman home from the bar to his new apartment.

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Terms: Non-Confrontational Style, Confrontational Style

Non-Confrontational Style• Non-confrontational Style

– responding to the conflict by either avoiding or giving in to the other person.

• Although there is no picture available for this scene, we see it in Crazy, Stupid, Love, when Cal (Steve Carrell) jumps out of his wife’s car after she starts to expand on why she wants a divorce. Rather than face the unpleasant truth of her infidelity, he avoids her by leaping from the vehicle.

Confrontational Style• Confrontational style – a

win-lose philosophy where one person wants to win at the expense of another.

• We see this style in the epic scene near the end of the movie when Jacob punches David Lindhagen for sleeping with Cal’s wife, and Cal punches Jacob for sleeping with his daughter.

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Terms: Post-dissolutional relationship, destructive conflict

Post-Dissolutional Relationship• Post-dissolutional

relationship – the relationship formed between partners after their relationship terminates

• This term can been seen in Crazy, Stupid, Love when Cal and Emily meet at their son’s Teacher-Parent meeting. They discuss their son and also their feelings for each other now that they are separated.

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Destructive Conflict

• Destructive conflict is characterized by a lack of cooperation in dealing with differences and dismantles rather than restores relationships

• Destructive conflict is seen also during the Teacher-Parent meeting when Ms. Taffety reveals she and Cal slept together and he never called her back. Cal and Emily then get into an argument and she leaves.

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Terms: Ego conflict, Pseudoconflict

Ego Conflict• Ego conflict – conflict

based on personal issues in which people attack each other’s self-esteem

• Ego conflict occurs in Crazy, Stupid, Love when Hannah’s boyfriend Richard fails to propose to her, stating he isn’t ready for that kind of commitment. Hannah insults him and leaves him immediately. poptower.com

Pseudoconflict• Pseudoconflict – conflict

stemming from a lack of understanding

• Pseudoconflict occurs in the movie when Jessica’s parents discover the risky photos she took of herself intending to give them to Cal. Her dad thinks a relationship is happening between them and he goes crazy, when in fact, Cal has no idea Jessica is in love with him.

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