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Movie: Romantic-Comedies

I’ve come to notice that of all the movies I watch, most seem to be comedies. That’s a fairly normal thing I would thing, I’d rather laugh more than cry or be scared. But lately, most of those comedies that are being brought to my attention are romantic-comedies. Or as I should say, are classified as romantic-comedies. For instance, the movie No Reservations which I recently in which most of the plot involves her learning to open up and allow herself to fall in love is a romantic-comedy. However the movie American Pie (the first one) is not a romantic-comedy, it is simply a comedy. For a movie to be anything with a split (romantic-comedy, thriller-horror, crime-drama, etc) the movie needs to have a fairly even balance. I think it should be at least 45% of one category to deserve the title. American Pie was not 45% romantic.

However that’s not what I was going to write about this blog. What I was going to write about, was the plot of every single romantic-comedy that ever existed. Yes, I think I’ve broken the formula. The key isn’t so much what happens in the movie as much as it is what hasn’t happened before the movie. Most of the changes that happen in a movie that create the plot involve a workaholic/routine, death of a loved one, or an accident blow out of proportion (but then it’s more comedy-romance based on the characters constantly messing up). Those are the inciting incidents that usually start the plot. Really it’s more anything that will take them out of what they normally do and force them to adapt. This is what causes the ‘comedy’ for most of them as they often fail at adapting and usually need the help of somebody else. This is where the romance comes in.

At least 90% of the ‘romance’ is often caused by the theory ‘opposites attract’. I could start naming off movies here that follow this theory but I’m sure most anybody who has seen at least one movie in this genre can clearly see. This person (the opposite) is often seen as the antagonist to the main character’s routine life. However, they find that the character that they’ve been having a problem with is not such a bad person, but in fact is exactly what they’ve been missing in their lives. Simply put: The ying to their yang.

The other 10% of romantic-comedies use the ’social awkwardness’ route for the romance. Such as the male not being able to talk to girls because he gets too nervous, then finding out that the girl in which he after is just as nervous as he was. Some other social awkwardness signs can simply involve the character being shy or depressed and unwilling to create an emotional bond. This is often the case fof films in which the workaholic card is also played.

Ok, that’s it for now. I just really wanted to point that out, so next time you’re watching a movie watch for the opposite thing, chances are you can notice that deep down they’re all really just looking their place in life and somebody to love….or maybe that guy sticking the kid’s head in the toilet and stealing his lunch money is just an asshole.