Glenn Close to Michael Douglas in Fatal Attraction:
"I will not be ignored, Dan!"
I'm clearly not a single white female. I'm not the clingy stalker type. And I can count on one hand the times I've had such amazing sex with someone they were willing to kill my pet rabbit for some more...but the first time I heard Glenn Close utter that line in Fatal Attraction, I remember cheering -- internally and externally -- for it spoke to that feeling that we all have somewhere deep in the psyche.
No matter how hard we work, good we look, smart we are, hard we try...no one wants to go unnoticed. If we were a nation of people who didn't want to be noticed, we wouldn't spend billions on cosmetics, lotions, plastic surgery, miracle youth serums, designer clothes, acting classes, political campaigns. Boss or lover...we wanna be noticed.
You know that quote had to resonate when it almost immediately started showing up on T-shirts.
It's often misquoted (I won't be ignored, Dan...Dan, I will not be ignored) but no matter how you recite it, it's meant to empower. And how strange it is, and was, that the audience (at least for a time anyway), was pulling for Glenn Close's screwed over, but screwed up, Alex. She was a homicidal maniac, but, come on! He ignored her!
For the record, I've probably been ignored a time or two by a boss or a lover. Fortunately, I left no dead bunnies in my wake. At least none I'll admit to.
