Romantic Comedy

"Romantic Comedy films are light-hearted and humerouse, centering on romantic ideals such as a true love able to surmount most obstables" Romanic Comedy films are a sub-genre of a Comedy film, as well as Romance films, which often also have some elements of screwball comedies and stoner comedies; Screwball comedies being a type of conedy that was popular in the 1930s, chacterised by frantic action, verble wit, characters being in bizarre predicaments, and using "slapstick humor". An example of films from this genre being "Bringing Up Baby" and its loose remake, "Whats UP, Doc?" Stoner Comedies or Stoner filmers revolve around the use of marijuana, showing cannabis use in a comic and positive fashion, as well as cannabis being used as one of the main theams and inspiering most of the plot. The historic film "Reefer madness" is now classed as a Stoner Comedy, but some more recent example being films such as "The Pineapple Express", "Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay" and "The Simpsons Weekend at Burnsie's" Romantic Comedies involve dramatic story lines about romance with the light humours touch, the dramatic romantic issues that are brought up in a Romantic Comedy are those such as, true love does exist, there is someone out there just for us, and id we could only find them, we would experiance true love and that romance can overcome all obstacles. as well as this a Romantic comedy offers the audiance an experiance of shared itimacy within couples; be them married, dating, young or old, and seeing this is fulfinging and pleasurable.

The most common story line for a "Rom Com" is that, two protagonists, usually these being one male and one female, meet, then part ways due to some kind of obstacle and then they are reunited. The male and female could be hesitant to become romantically involved, this being one of the most common obsticles in a romantic comedy, they do not want to belive that they have feelings for each other, sometimes this could be that one of them already has a partner, but the screenwriterswill leave clues to suggest to the audiance that there will be a happy ending sfter all the obstacles have been overcome. "Rom Coms" can appeal to both men and women, and this is done by combining both the use of a romatic comedy and stoner comedys, a brilliant exmaple of this is the film "Knocked Up", films such as these, more often then not, will use sexual content to bring the two main charaters together, another film which does this is "American Pie".