Sunday, October 12, 2008

McDonald's Romantic Comedy

Up until now, I did not realize how many genres there are under Romantic Comedy, and  that the rom com affects society, and society affects the rom com.  Now having read  McDonalds Romantic Comedy, I see those differences in the sub-genre's and I have also  wondered what I would classify as today's sub-genre of the rom com.  See, we had the regular romantic comedy, where boy meets girl, boy looses girl, and  then boy gets girl back.  Then we have the sex comedy where we see the couple fight  and insult eachother, only to end up falling in bed together at the end.  After that, we  have the radical romantic comedy where the emphasis on making sure the couple end  up together in the end is abandoned.  And then we have the neo-tradional romantic  comedy, where it is more dramaful and the importance of tears is shown.  It is more of a  realistic type of romantic comedy and shows the actual problems of mainting a long  lasting relationship.    After taking all this into consideration, I would say that today we incoorporate all of these  genres.  Because of the variety of our culture, I don't think we have one sub-genre that  we stick with.  Each rom com we see has its own element to it, and, for example, could  includes aspects from the sex comedy WITH neo-tradional.

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