In writer Elizabeth Crane's 2008 essay "How to Be Lloyd Dobler," she analyzes Lloyd from a feminist perspective and explains how all women want to date a Lloyd Dobler type, and that Vince Vaughn from Swingers is the exact opposite of the guy women should be seeking out. ![]() ![]() He's the kind of guy men want to be and the kind of man women eternally swoon over. hit theaters, the fast-talking, trench coat-wearing Lloyd Dobler still personifies the quintessential American male. "I'm Lloyd Dobler," he responds, blowing Mike's mind. At the party Mike Cameron (Jason Gould) comes up to him and asks, "How did you get Diane Court to go out with you?" "I called her up," Lloyd says. She then decides to go out with him because he makes her laugh. He has the balls to call Diane - who has to thumb through her yearbook in order to find out who he even is - and invite her to a kegger. He's a good friend and an even better boyfriend. I'm sorry, it's just you're a really nice guy, and we don't want to see you get hurt." "I wanna get hurt!" Lloyd replies. "Diane Court doesn't go out with guys like you," Corey (Lili Taylor) tells him. ![]() Within the first couple minutes of Cameron Crowe's directorial debut, Say Anything., protagonist Lloyd Dobler (John Cusack) tells his female pals he wants to ask the valedictorian of his high school graduating class, Diane Court (Ione Skye), out on a date.
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