why did claire and mark split up?
i went out to make a slice of toast and when i came back, the show was back on and their relationship was over
what happened?
(i think Mark is the correct name, though i'm not sure.)
Claire was unhappy with Mark's lack of responsibility (he couldn't hold onto a job, pay the electric bill, phone bill, rent, etc...), they got into a fight and Mark stormed off, alluding to the woman that he slept with earlier in the film that all women want is a 30,000$ engagement ring.
shareMark and Claire never dated. She was with Robert.
Where there's life there's hope and where there's hope there's crosby
Claire was just wrong. SHe was perfectly ok showing up at his work and not giving a dam that she was totally distracting him from his job, but then when he loses his job, then all of a sudden, he's irresponsible
shareI found Claire's reaction to be a bit strange too, since she was indirectly responsible for getting him fired. However, if you listen to the dvd commentary, the scene where Claire disturbs Robert at work was never actually scripted and shot, just expertly edited together from two other scenes to make Robert's firing from Full Eclipse more plausible. However, it does make Claire come across as rather inconsistent.
shareInteresting. I had no idea. I only had the VHS tape years ago. It did make claire look really bad and hypocritical
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You just quoted what the other guy said. Do you have something to add to that?
shareClaire is not mad because he got fired. She is disappointed that he wont even get a part time job to pay his bills while he tries to get another good job.
It's not that she cares about how much money he makes, she just wants the security of being able to count on the electricity working.
She was completely in the right.
Well, she had every right to say what she said, but as was stated earlier, to say that after the scene that I mentioned it made her seem inconsistent and a huge hypocrite
shareI am not claiming that her dropping by his workplace, and then his leaving with her, did not contribute to his getting fired.
Furthermore, she was not mad at him for getting fired, she was mad at him for not even trying to get work after he was fired.
She was not inconsistent, nor hypocritical, in being annoyed that he could not even take a temp job to pay the bills while looking for a new full time job.
The break up between Robert and Claire is actually rather forced. There were any number of Robert's insecurities that could have been played on to make this happen (especially his last relationship, which was constantly being countered by the relationship with Claire), but instead, it was a jumbled mess of Robert's lack of direction coupled with Claire's parental issues (which had never been brought up before). Further confusing the matter is that Robert makes a statement that another job will "come along" and then goes into the mini-rant about a particular job being "beneath him". He's never been above borrowing excessive amounts of money from friends, so this is rather odd. At this point, Claire's arguments are not all that clean either, and as I recall from the commentary, this is one of the scenes that was least honed.
In order for the movie to work, though, this kind of a (classic) conflict had to occur, which nicely set up the falling out between Robert and Mark. Still, I think there could have been a better set-up for the conflict between Robert and Claire to make this scene flow better.
I think the whole idea was supposed to be that a nerd bloke finding his dream nerd woman is more likely than a nerd woman finding her dream nerd bloke
or something.