Genre of Films

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.