Genre of Films
Romance/Comedy
Romance and Comedy - the perfect mix. It pulls at your heart strings
and satisfies the true romantic in you but also provides countless laughs
along the way that can unite friends and family alike. With light-hearted, humorous plotlines,
centered on romantic ideals such as that true love is able to surmount most
obstacles they serve as a slightly more, light hearted version on a romantic drama that spares
you the heart ache of a despondent ending, a rom-com is something surely
everyone enjoys watching? Although the
target audience may be more female don’t fall under the illusion that guys
don’t watch or enjoy these films, with the right cast and a worthy plot just about
anyone will enjoy a rom-com. It integrates with the part of us that dreams of
having a romantic interest in our lives, someone that we could share the rest
of our days with and experience all the perfect, idyllic, movie like moments
personally. It links to the users and gratification theory that we like to
escape from our own lives and any movie can help the viewer achieve this but a
rom-com is usually so simplistic you could believe this was happening somewhere
in the world right now and could aspire to have something like that in your life.
Romantic films like Titanic and The Vow are magnificent films but the
emotional rollercoaster they take you on can sometimes be exhausting, rom-coms
whereas provide an emotionally satisfying ending that normally leaves the
viewer content with the outcome of the film. Comedy films can sometimes lack a
plotline or general point so when combined with romance the film as a whole
develops as they complement each other and that’s why in my opinion they’re the
best genre of films. A list of my favourite rom-coms is never-ending, The
Holiday, Just My Luck, 50 first dates, a lot like love, Wedding Crashers, She’s
the Man, Mamma Mia, The Ugly Truth and Easy A just to name a few! They contain
all the parts of romance and comedy that I love so very much!
Arguably it may be comical to call rom-coms the ‘best genre’ as they
are often discarded as laughable attempts to create a ‘proper film’ and never
recognised by the academy but just because they don’t have a never-ending list
of Oscar awards and baftas to their name doesn’t mean by any account that they
aren’t the best. As Leonardo DiCaprio has shown, you can be truly amazing but
fail to win awards as you’re simply underappreciated by academy. They make
people laugh, they make people cry, over time they have brought out every
emotion known to man and are simply a joy to watch – it is a disappointment
that people fail to see the sheer brilliance of rom-coms and take them as they
are, a light hearted film that can make anyone smile and takes the best parts
of romance and comedy and combines them to make a truly wonderful masterpiece.
