Research- Romantic Comedy

Romantic comedies tend to include a man and a women both leading regular lifestyles, both working and socialising. They come together romantically, but later we see arguments and obsticles that pull them apart. But later we see them reunite. This is acheived through funny moments that involve both characters. As an audience you can see that they belong together but they cannot see it for themselves. A good example of a romantic comedy is "The Proposal", this stars Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds, who are both well-known for their brilliant comedy roles. In this film the man and women are not romantically linked. They work together and the women is the boss at a business firm in New York. Sandra and Ryan's characters do not get along, but have a very humour relationship that shows to the audience they have a spark between them. They are not romantically involved because they simply dont like eachother in the beginning, this may be because of job pressures and strain from other factors in their own personal life. Later they come together and pretend to get married, as Sandra Bullock's character may ahve to get deported from New York back to Canada if she does not have a strong reason for staying. This would cause her to loose her job and therfore power. So she sees Ryan Reynolds as an easy target employee who would go along with her lie because he is intimidated by her power as a business women. Later they go through ups and downs, and they start finding eachother attractive after spending time together. This leads to many funny moments. We as an audience start to see that sometimes initial oppsites can attract. Both characters become comfortable around eachother and they begin to fall in love, but dont let eachother know at first. Then they fall out and Sandra's character gets on a plane home to admit that they are not really getting married and she planned it all along. But however as she leaves Ryan's character realises he has fallen for his bossy manager. She also feels the same and they end up giving into their feelings for eachother. The reunite at the end and plan a real wedding. This film has many funny and light hearted scenes that can be enjoyed by a male and female audience. The comedy scenes and romance is very strong in this film and this was what made is so enjoyable to watch.

Romantic Comedies appealed to us as a group as we like to watch romantic comedies. Many romantic comedies include sterotypical love stories and the ups and downs that go along with that. Many romantic comedies use simialr actors and actresses in their movies. We noticed that Jennifer Aniston has appeared in many romantic comedies these include:

Hes just not that into you
Marley & me
Picture Perfect

Romantic comedy films are very light-hearted and have funny storylines. They also include true loves overcoming obsticles so that they can be together, but along the way they have troubles which are humourous.

Friends- popular sitcom which includes many actors and actresses that have now been recognised in many comedies since this well-known and loved sitcom series. The cast includes Jennifer Aniston, Courtney Cox, Matt Le Blanc, David Schwimmer, Matthew Perry and Lisa Kudrow. These comedy show is a tv series, but we are loooking at movie romantic comedies.
We noticed that the character Jennifer Aniston plays in Friends is very similar to some characters she has played in films years later. This is something called type cast when a actor or actress is defined by the character an audience sees them portray, and they almost become the characterin other films.

some other romantic comedy films are:

Shes all that
50 first dates
what a girl wants
wedding crashers
Its a boy girl thing
Shes the man
Wimbledon
just friends
My super-ex girlfriend
My best friends girl
picture this

Jerry maguire
my best friends wedding
Bruce Almighty
Knocked up
The devil wears prada
Hitch
Meet the Fockers
Sex and the City (film)
Theirs something about mary
Confessions of a shopaholic
The ugly truth
I love you man
Valentine's day