Moviegoers are often asked to suspend their disbelief. In 2012 alone, we experienced a world in which a young Indian boy finds a mysterious killer island full of meerkats. Audiences also reveled in Rian Johnson's story about future mobsters who send their victims back in time to be killed. But perhaps most incredulously, we were asked in Paul Thomas Anderson's most recent enigmatic wonder to believe a dude like Philip Seymour Hoffman could score a babe like Amy Adams. This trend in TV and films is by no means new; from Fred Flinstone to Kevin James' King of Queens marrying Leah Remini, our goofy, nerdy, overweight and even downright hideous on-screen heroes perpetually seem to be able to nab even the foxiest of leading ladies. And as a skinny half-Asian nerd a few months shy of marrying a Cuban girl who's a doctor, I applaud these men. But when it happens in movies, I still can't help but to point it out. In fact, I've even come up with a name for these fortuitous young heroes of cinema; thanks to Danny Boyle, these men to me will always be
slumdog millionaires. So join us as we talk about 10 movie characters who got girls out of their league.
10. Ben Stone in Knocked Up
This one is entirely superficial. At the point in Seth Rogen's career when he made Knocked Up, he was known by some as the pot-head slacker from Apatow's television shows Undeclared and Freaks and Geeks. Filmgoers knew him only as Andy's scene-stealing friend in the 40-Year-Old Virgin. But in 2007's Knocked Up, Seth Rogen played Ben Stone, the hilariously charming loser. He displays not an ounce of shame in the fact that he's an illegal Canadian immigrant who is jobless, surviving on money he received after being run over by a car in his youth and living on a diet that mainly consists of spaghetti. Then there's Katherine Heigl. Tall, thin, blonde and beautiful Katherine Heigl. You might say that the only downside to her is that her character Alison Scott is one of the most nagging and insufferable female characters to ever show up on screen. That being said, we find ourselves rooting for the two if for nothing else other than she makes our hero happy. Regardless of how he managed to initially woo and impregnante her, whether it was alcohol, the dice-move on the dance floor or all thanks to Eric Bana in Munich, in a purely aesthetic level, Alison is clearly out of Ben's league.