Headscratchers / Home Alone 4: Taking Back the House

• What Was Up With Natalie? For the first 2/3 of the movie or so she is nothing but nice to Kevin and his family. Then (after the engagement party is ruined.) she suddenly gets a lot bitchier towards Kevin. Is it just because she thinks he's trying to ruin her relationship or is it something else? I read elsewhere on this very site that the plan was originally for Peter to stay with her, but Executive Meddling forced them to change it. Did they maybe get the order to change half-way through writing/filming and thought "We better make her seem like a bitch so they don't feel bad for her when Peter leaves her?" If so, they did a damn lousy job of it, though it would explain a lot.
  • I think you answered your own question by suggesting she thinks he’s trying to ruin her relationship. Think of it from her point of view: she is nothing but nice to Kevin for 2/3 of the movie, and how does he respond? By ruining a party she’d put a lot of time and effort into, celebrating her engagement to the man she loves. It does make sense that she gets the idea that Kevin is simply a brat and there’s no use being nice to him.