Badly Cliched Genre Of Eternity: Romantic Comedies

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You know the story: Boy meets girl, boy gets girl, girl falls for boy, and they all live happily ever after. No matter how many times Hollywood tries to improve upon that story, it never changes. Only Woody Allen seems to be able to give something of a less happy tone to the romantic comedy, and that’s by divorces and break-ups. We need a romantic comedy where something new happens.

I’ve come up with some rules that Hollywood should follow next time:

  1. Fire Nora Ephron. No matter what she does, she manages to be successful somehow using that same old story over and over… Get rid of her already.
  2. Get rid of the happy tone. Black comedy is funny. Look at “Fargo,” “Lock Stock And Two Smoking Barrels,” and “Dr. Strangelove.” They manage to add dark tones to hilarious comedy, successfully. Witty ways of saying “I love you” can’t beat out somebody managing to make dark subjects like death funny.
  3. Do something original. We’ve seen one romantic comedy at the least, and therefore, we’ve seen all the ones you’re in favor of producing. Do something original, and you might attract more audiences. I don’t care what you do–action, dark endings, slaughterhouses–just as long as we don’t see another story like the one above.
  4. For once, give us a darker ending. Not neccesarily like that of “Romeo & Juliet” (though that would be nice), but something like “They part and never see each other again.” That’d be funny, especially if they’re the perfect couple.
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Romatic comedies are not ment to be dark or twisted in the sense of humor… they are, as the genre name provides, ment to be romantic and cheerfull and full of Julie Roberts teeth filled smile.

Yes, as a genre is pretty much empty stirred and yes almost all romatic comedies are almost same, but IMHO they do hold their place in the movie genre, just becuase sometimes it can produce real gems, like, in my surprise, “My Bif Fat Greeck Wedding” Wonderful, exelent movie. I can recomend.

Oh and if you want your twisted romantic move, watch a film, written by Quentin Tarantino btw, “True Romance”. 'nuff said.

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If you want a dark ending, you can watch Kenny getting killed in every episode of South Park.

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Genres exist so people can get an idea of what to expect from a film. Film makers can benefit from genres by making a film which will cater for a paticular target audience. If it is different from what people expect, it might not be so popular. Then again, I suppose it has worked the other way. The aim of these type of films (besides making as much money as possible) is to make the audience feel all warm inside or to make them cry, not to disappoint them with the ending they didn’t expect and didn’t want.

Meh. I might have just said something stupid. I’m tired. :expressionless: