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　　在2006年的爱情电影中，The Break-up无疑是最成功的一部，3810万美元的首映收入使其成为历史上首映收入第三高的爱情喜剧。影片的男女主角分别由好莱坞当红喜剧影星Vince Vaughn和Jennifer Aniston主演。整个影片中，有很多男女主角斗嘴的情节，特别是Vaughn扮演的Gary身为明星导游，靠嘴皮子吃饭，语速很快、用词尖刻，他与女主角的犀利对白堪称一部英文斗嘴圣经。当然，在颇为搞笑的语言背后，影片也充满了对爱情生活的哲理阐释，在潜移默化中，让我们对爱情又多了一份深深的了解。
　　
　　分手风波
　　
　　Gary(Vince Vaughn饰演)是芝加哥某旅行公司的明星导游，很受游客欢迎。他能说会道，满嘴俏皮话，几秒钟内就可以惹得人哈哈大笑。Brooke(Jennifer Aniston饰演)则在一家私人艺术画廊工作，颇有艺术修养，比起经常滔滔不绝的Gary，她更为内敛。
　　事实上，两人闹分手的原因看似平常，不过为了锅碗瓢盆等家务事罢了。为了准备邀请亲戚朋友的晚餐，Brooke一下班就回家忙活着准备，Gary一回家却玩起了电子游戏，Brooke要他帮忙，他却满嘴油腔滑调，满不在乎。门铃响起，Gary赶紧跑去洗澡躲起来，把所有的工作都丢给了Brooke。席间吃饭，Gary对Brooke一方的亲戚也很不客气，就像是在煎熬中应付差事。等亲戚朋友们一走，他又回到电视前玩起了游戏。Brooke强压怒火，请Gary帮自己洗碗，Gary头也不回地说：明天再洗。于是这场分手风波像火山一样开始爆发：
　　Gary: You know, we can clean the dishes tomorrow.
　　Brooke: Gary, you know I don’t like waking up to a dirty kitchen.
　　Gary: Who cares?
　　Brooke: I care! All right? I care! I busted my ass all day cleaning this house and then cooking that meal. And I worked today. It would be nice if you said thank you and helped me with the dishes.
　　Gary: Fine. I’dl help you do the damn dishes.
　　Brooke: No. See? That’s not what I want.
　　Gary: You just said that you want me to help you do the dishes.
　　Brooke: I want you to want to do the dishes.
　　Gary: Why would I want to do dishes?
　　Brooke: Why? See, that’s my whole point.
　　Gary: Let me see if I’d following this, okay? Are you telling me that you’re upset because I don’t have a strong desire to clean dishes?
　　Brooke: No. I’d upset because you don’t have a strong desire to offer to do the dishes.
　　这里两个人的逻辑有点绕，不过也很精彩。眼看自己有点理亏，Gary拿出男人惯用的“工作辛苦”为理由。不过这一招对Brooke并不奏效，因为Brooke也是职业女性，天天辛苦上班，和他一起按揭买房，丝毫没有懈怠。
　　Gary: I’d busting my ass to be the best tour guide in the damn city, so I can make enough money to support both of us and hopefully you won’t have to work one day.
　　Brooke: I want to work. All I ask, Gary, is that you show a little bit of appreciation.
　　在这招失败之后，黔驴技穷的Gary大喊受够了，要be left alone，气头上的Brooke摔门离去，从此开始了两人的冷战。
　　
　　假戏真做
　　
　　争吵过后，Gary和Brooke都各自找到自己的好朋友倾诉。不过从内容上看，他们想到的问题却完全不同。Brooke只是想让Gary更加关心自己的感受，希望自己的态度能让他好好反省。
　　Brooke: I asked him to do one thing and he didn’t do it. Then he complained that he had to do anything. ... I just want him to care enough about this relationship to want to work on it...Okay. Tonight just...It just got a little out of hand, and hopefully he’s just gonna realize that he’s got some changes to make and he’s gonna... He’s gonna come home and apologize.
　　而Gary所考虑的却与Brooke完全不同。在Gary看来，Brooke只是拿一些琐碎的事情来烦他：We had a fight over the groceries I brought home.而对于Brooke分手的气话，他可是认真对待，继而竟然想到他们分手后财产的分割，全然没有努力挽回两人关系的意思。结果可想而知，Brooke回到家，发现Gary已经对两人在房子的活动空间进行了分割：卧室属于Brooke，客厅属于Gary。Gary在客厅私自安放了台球桌，当然客厅的一切也都是乱翻了天。自此两人的战争开始升级——先是Brooke按照Gary的逻辑，请自己的弟弟到自己卧室组织歌唱团，后来又听从自己老板的建议，开始和帅哥约会以刺激Gary，希望他能努力挽回这段感情。不过Gary显然不为所动，他做的一切似乎更要逼迫Brooke搬走。最后，为了报复Brooke和其他男人吃饭，Gary竟然在家里招了几个脱衣舞女，大跳艳舞。Brooke伤心至极，在朋友的调解下，两人开始正式的分手谈判：
　　Gary: Well, the only logical thing that I can think of is for her to move out of the condo, and then to pay me some sort of a penalt(本文来自：www.bdFqY.cOM 千 叶帆文 摘:分手男女)y as compensation for the labor that I did all around the condo.