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Romantic Hyperbole
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Some lovers say that they'll care for you, work hard to support you, and be there for you when you need a shoulder to cry on. But why stop there? Why not fetch the stars from the sky for you, climb the highest mountain, walk a thousand miles on broken glass just for one touch of your hand! And yes, these things are completely impractical and nobody could actually do any of them without dying - but hey, sometimes the best way to express powerful feelings is through ridiculous exaggeration. Alternatively, you can interpret such impractical feats as metaphors for overcoming more mundane obstacles. Other forms of hyperbole are also eligible, such as attributing supernatural properties or abilities to your lover that no person actually has, like shining/glowing, being the source of all beauty, or teaching the doves to sing. If any "I would such and such" statements turn out to be Not Hyperbole, back away slowly because Love Makes You Crazy and/or evil. Naturally a staple of Silly Love Songs. Examples |
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Foreigner - "Feels Like the First Time": | |
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In Of Thee I Sing, hyperbole naturally figures in Wintergreen's love-story campaign strategy: | |
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal A man claiming he'd do anything for the woman he loves, until she asks him: "Would you eat this brick?" And again in this one, mocking the fickleness of young love. Later subverted in this one, in which a man literally scales the highest mountain and swims the deepest ocean, and afterwards becomes a celebrity and loses interest in his original girlfriend. Revisited yet again in this one, in which his lover claims that acts like "climbing a mountain" merely make him more socially desirable ("Clearly you're hedging your bets in case things don't work out here"). She instead asks him to do something socially deplorable to prove his love, like running naked through a kids' amusement park with a swastika on his forehead and a cape reading "FUCK SINGLE MOMS". Naturally, the votey shows a woman with large breasts asking if he's the swastika guy from youtube. |
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Mocked in "How Much I Love You" from One Touch of Venus (an alternate version of which was published as an Ogden Nash poem titled "To My Valentine"): | |
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Parodied in the MTV sketch comedy show The State while incorporating a Brick Joke. Earlier in the show, a teacher is telling students not to talk lightly about assassinating the president when a group of secret service agents rush in and carry her off. Later, when the cast is performing a Silly Love Song called "You Will Always Give Me A Boner", one singer sings "I would do anything for you! I'd even shoot the president!" Cue the secret service. | |
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The most obvious example is probably Romeo and Juliet. Romeo says that Juliet: 1. Is the sun. 2. Teaches the torches to burn bright. 3. Is fairer than the moon. 4. Has cheeks brighter than the stars. 5. OK, you get the idea. | |
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Another example is from Two Gentlemen of Verona. One of the male leads is in love with a woman named Silvia and he recites the following completely ridiculous speech which was also recited in Shakespeare in Love. | |
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Sara Evans' "No Place that Far" IS this trope. | |
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Parodied by Mystery Science Theater 3000's Tom Servo in "Creepy Girl": | |
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Jacques Brel's "Ne me quitte pas" (Don't leave me) has a number of line about what the singer would do to keep their lover. Unlike other songs where this is considered completely romantic, this one is more about how the despair associated with losing love would make you do really desperate things. One example among many: | |
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Subverted in Stardust when Tristan tells his girlfriend he'll bring back a star for her... and actually goes out and finds a star - fallen to earth in the shape of a woman - and tries to bring her back. Only along the way, he falls in love with the star and ends up with her instead. | |
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"I Will" by Jarah Gibson from the Soundtrack of The Room (2003). | |
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"10,000 Hours" by Dan + Shay featuring Justin Bieber: | |
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There's the Eurovision Song Contest (2001) song "(I Would) Die For You" by Antique, Greece. Says itself, really. | |
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Shakespeare in Love subverts this trope by way of Sonnet 130 (see in Literature, below) when Shakespeare tells Thomas Kent (actually Shakespeare's love Viola in disguise) about how the woman he loves has eyes like the sun, lips red as coral, a voice like music, etc. "Thomas" responds that he'd hate to be Shakespeare's lady because no real woman could actually live up to that. | |
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In The Musical of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Johnny sings "I'll Buy You A Star," whose verse declares that even "buckets full of diamonds" aren't big enough to promise. | |
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The Buffy/Angel romance is subject to a certain amount of In-Universe mocking regarding this trope. From the BTVS episode "Helpless". In the Angel episode "Fredless", Wesley and Cordelia summarize events for newcomer Fred's benefit. |
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Referenced in, of course, Upstart Crow, particularly in the annoyed way that everyone reacts to Will Shakespeare's fondness for the trope. | |
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Annihilation (2018). Kane won't tell his wife Lena where he's been deployed by the US military—only that he's in the same hemisphere. Lena laughs at him for thinking that she looks up at the skies while he's gone and wonders if he's doing the same. The fact that she'd mock him in this way is a sign that her affections have been straying. | |
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It's a Wonderful Life: | |
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Subverted in Babylon 5. Sheridan tells Delenn at one point, "I'll never leave you, Delenn, not if the whole universe stood between us." The universe does, and he doesn't. | |
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