Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Romantic Comedy.

In my theatre class we have been talking about romantic comedies for some reason. So i started to think about every romantic comedy I've seen.
I'm pretty sure they were all the same movie.
I have compiled 2 lists of what every romantic comedy is all about.
The first list is of movies in which the main character is a guy.
If there is a parentheses following the motif it means that the sentence in the parenthesis is an alternate to the motif.

Male Main Character:
Movie opens with a “day in the life of” main character (or a history of his life so far and how he met the girl)
He is dumb yet still smart. (oblivious, but witty)
Slightly clumsy
Bed head
Average Joe (or looser)
Girl of interest is out of his league (or polar opposite)
Either have known each other their whole lives or just met within 5 minutes of the start of the movie
Best friend has a relationship of which the woman is extremely dominant (or he is a lady’s man)
Through mere charm, guy somehow gets girl, things are good.
Something ridiculously unlikely happens (usually as a result of the clumsiness)
Some extreme misunderstanding due to guy’s bad luck, wrong place at the wrong time.
Guy losses everything
A slow song played on the acoustic guitar (possibly female voice, possibly Atlantis Morissette)
Guy sad.
Inspirational speech by best friend or parents.
Through hard work and lots of convincing the couple gets back together.
all is forgiven
The song “my love open the door” by Pete Townsend will play.
Sunset, fade to credits.
Also the beach is involved somewhere in the movie.

Female Main Character:
(NOTE: this list quite smaller as i haven't seen very many of this type)
She has 3-4 best friends, all of whom are different shapes and sizes to show diversity and how we are all wonderful people just the way we are.
Guy of interest is ‘perfect’
Rains when something bad happens
Lots of crying from everybody
The end.
Audience is either really sad or really happy.

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