Whatever Happened To....

So the end of the movie isn't necessarily the end of the story. Remember all those John Hughes and Cameron Crowe movies we watched when we were ten and twelve years old, convinced that high school was going to be just like that? How did all those awesome relationships we were totally waiting for really turn out?



Whatever Happened To...Diane Court and Lloyd Dobbler
After a painful visit to the jail to see her father and a long, bumpy flight to England, Diane and Lloyd rented a flat in a terrible neighborhood in London because it was all they could afford. They spent the first few weeks strolling through the streets, hand-in-hand, looking into each others eyes for hours and making sweet love on the futon mattress they planned to get a frame for soon. Once Diane started school, Lloyd found himself alone, bored and missing the Malibu, which he'd sold for $700 to buy his plane ticket. Diane was tense and swamped with school work. Lloyd's sweet gestures--always having dinner ready when she came home, picking her flowers and making her mixed tape after mixed tape--began to feel like a facade for his lack of motivation and refusal to get a job. Lloyd explained (until he was blue in the damn face) that England's kick boxing circuit was much harder to break into than Seattle's. Lloyd also became increasing jealous of Simon, Diane's rich and overly educated classmate. He also felt Diane emasculated him by constantly nagging and using words she knew he didn't understand, like "rectitude" and "mordant." Sex grew more and more infrequent. After an unfortunate incident at a Fellowship dinner party where Lloyd called Simon a "douchebag", Diane tearfully told Lloyd that she just didn't think this was working anymore. Lloyd reminded her that she's dumped him before and as soon as the shit hit the fan, she'd come running back. Diane said she just didn't love him anymore. Stunned, Lloyd left the flat, wandering the streets of London in his trenchcoat. A friendly old Englishman invited him inside his pub to dry off and have a beer on the house. Lloyd sat, downing free beer, telling Oscar, the kind old barkeep about Diane and all they'd been through. Oscar listened politely, nodding appropriately and when Lloyd finished his story, Oscar looked him in the eyes and said, "Wow. She sounds like a real bitch if you ask me." Lloyd had to agree with Oscar, mostly because he was totally wasted. Filled with false confidence, Lloyd staggered back to the flat and declared that Diane was an uptight bitch. Then he ransacked the flat, looking for all his mixed tapes. Diane stood watching, rolling her eyes. With his 16 mixed tapes, his duffel bag of underwear and socks and his $55 cash in hand, Lloyd left the flat. He woke up the next morning on a park bench. Realizing what he'd done, he ran back to the flat, pounding on the door, yelling how sorry he was for everything. Diane said it really was for the best and told him she and Simon were planning to study the Romantic era in Scotland for a semester. For the next hour, Lloyd alternated between crying and begging for forgiveness and reminding Diane that he father was in jail and she better really think about what she was giving up. Finally, Diane gave Lloyd enough money to buy a plane ticket back to Seattle, saying, "Hey, at least I didn't give you a pen this time, right?" For several weeks, Lloyd hung out in the Gas 'n Sip parking lot with some old friends, drinking and plotting to get her back. Eventually, he picked himself up and started managing a record store. According to sources, he is still there, dealing with a string of failed relationships, although he does stop occasionally to analyze why this keeps happening.