Chapter 19
The Pressure Cooker Effect
The pressure cooker effect can speed up the process of people bonding and falling in love. The more intensity, danger, stress, and fear, the more likely it is that two people thrown together, or trapped in a dangerous situation, will make a human connection. Some examples:
Danger
Speed launched Sandra Bullock’s career and gave Keanu Reeves a new lease on his. It made canny use of the element of being trapped in a dangerous situation. The bus our girl Annie (Bullock) is taking to work has a bomb planted on it that will blow everyone up if the bus goes slower than 50 miles per hour. Before you know it, our man/cop Keanu has jumped aboard and Sandra has to take the wheel. While working together to try to save ...
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