Comparing The Proposal And DJ EZ Rock's It Takes Two

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It Takes Two
"It takes two to make to make things go right, it takes two to make it out of sight" are the brilliant lyrics to Rob Base and DJ EZ Rock's It Takes Two, which happens to be the anthem of The Proposal. The Proposal is the romantic comedy about a book publisher that appears to have everything and her assistant that she never took the time to get to know. Margaret Tate (Sandra Bullock) the high class book publisher finds out that she is being deported back to Canada; in order to stay in the United States and keep her job, she forces her assistant Andrew Paxton (Ryan Reynolds) to marry her. After spending time with Andrew and his family she has a realization that when you open up and let yourself become vulnerable you find what you really need.
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Margaret's parents passed away when she was only 16 years old, from that point on she was on her own. As Margaret spends time with Andrew's family, she begins to remember what it's like to have people that care for you. Andrew's Mother and Grandmother don't give Margaret much of a chance to not open up and be part of the family because as far as they know the engagement between Margaret and Andrew is one hundred percent genuine. It becomes unbearable for Margaret to go through with the marriage because she begins to care about Andrew's family and how it will affect them when they find out that the whole thing was a setup just so she wouldn't be deported. Margaret has a family and people that care for her for the first time in

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