“Trying to fulfill the contradictory demands of postfeminism would turn any woman into a dick.” I watched Trainwreck with my friends last night. “In Trainwreck, Amy Schumer Calls Bullshit on Postfeminism.” (Anne Helen Petersen, BuzzFeed, July 2015) You are forced to dwell on how impossible and absurd these movies make love out to be.
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When the plot is solid, the movie experience becomes uncomfortable because you are not distracted by the plot discontinuities. Gaping plot holes are mandatory in order to believe the lie of a romantic comedy. “Not-So-Guilty-Pleasures: Romantic Comedies.” (Roxane Gay, The Toast, August 2013) Here, I’ve collected a handful of stories centering on the creators and aficionados of the romantic comedy. Romantic comedies-the best of them-allow us to project and to process. They can be timeless or comforting or really terrible, or all three.
I Love You). I’ve been inspired by romantic comedies before to Get My Shit Together, and I think that’s really cool. Romantic comedies can be teen dreams (Clueless), homages to Shakespeare ( She’s The Man), stunt-filled action romps (Mr. The most recent film I’ve seen, Trainwreck, is also a romance. What I’m interested in: the boundaries of the romantic comedy.
It was a Disney movie obviously, there’s a tortured love and a singalong. Seems like the first movie I ever watched was a romance.