Tenets of the Romantic Comedy
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Romantic comedies are an enduring film genre for a number of reasons. They are popular with audiences because they are typically funny, sexy, and romantic. Happy endings are another element of the genre that continues to keep romantic comedies popular with audiences. Romantic comedies are also popular with producers, as successful ones like Pretty Woman and When Harry Met Sally make significant sums of money and are less expensive to produce than big action films or other special effects laden movies. As one film critic offers, "genre can affect the form, structure, style and content of a movie" (Genre, 2008, p. 1). Characters in different genres act and are portrayed in different ways, like women in Westerns typically being good and unattractive or bad and loose. The same is true with the treatment of men and women in romantic comedies, each of whom is sharply defined. This analysis will explore the various elements of the romantic comedy genre in film, from the early romantic comedies of directors like Preston Sturges to the modern ones by directors like Gary Marshall. From setting and character to gender portrayal and theme, the convention of romantic comedy will be addressed using examples from a number of successful movies in the genre. A conclusion will address why the elements of romantic comedy continue to be popular with audiences and how they help to entertain and enlighten filmgoers due to the conventions of the genre.
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length mink coat. In the Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy romantic comedy Adam's Rib, Tracy's character learns to feign tears in order to win his wife Amanda back, after she leaves because she finds him too aggressively masculine in his views toward her legal career, over which they conflict. For reasons like this, a somewhat derogatory term has evolved to describe this genre of films as "chick flicks," since they typically appeal to women more than men. The best ones, however, explore themes of gender, relationships, sexuality, and other aspects of existence, from Michael Dorsey of Tootsie to Katharine Hepburn as the male-named "Pat" in Pat and Mike.
Numerous other conventions of the romantic comedy genre are related to structure of the narrative itself. These are very important for creating the tension between the hero and romantic interest, as well as for establishing how interactions must unfold between other characters, like the hero's romantic rival. Strict structural elements must be followed in order for us not to view the hero as a womanizer who goes after any woman he desires and for us not to view the romantic interest as someone who will callously or shallowly dump the hero's romantic interest just be
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