If there is one type of movie that is loved by men, women and children, it is romance.
Whether it’s not being loved, or the ending of being together after all the hardships, it’s the audience’s fantasy of emotions, so the love movie was born.
It is also a love movie. Why are Hollywood movies more popular and enduring?
In fact, in Hollywood romance films, most of the same type of films have fixed routines.
Ideal love pattern
There are several very classic romance films with stories like strong women and weak men. For example, “Titanic”, “Notting Hill”, “The Princess Diaries”.
When you hear the names of these films, you must already know something. Basically, many people have seen these films.
“Notting Hill” tells the love story between a big star and a bookstore owner. There is a classic movie review: In every man’s heart, there is a Notting Hill.
This film subverts the old stereotypes of Hollywood movies.
Before this film, Hollywood films followed the character setting of male superiority and female inferiority, and portrayed women as the image of dependent men, and they did not have much decision-making power.
The emergence of this film is a complete awakening of feminist consciousness, the courage to break through the restrictions between classes, and the pursuit of freedom and happiness.
Therefore, the role of Anna in this film is very distinct. Even when she is oppressed by men, she still dares to resist, establishing a new female image for the audience.
And the most classic scene of this movie is when the heroine came to the bookstore at the end of the movie, she said to the hero: I am just a girl, standing in front of a beloved boy, a girl who needs him to love me.
Remarriage comedy
At the time of the second wave of feminist movement, Hollywood also opened up a new mode of love movies, that is, remarriage comedy.
In this type of film, the hero and heroine know each other very well from the very beginning, and the reason for their conflict is the incompatibility of behavior and habits caused by personality differences.
So in most of the films, you can see this kind of story structure.
The film begins with a man and a woman who have been married or have been together for many years, and then the plot is that they have broken up.
After the separation, the two people begin to understand each other, and there will be some quarrels and collisions, or they may already have new partners.
And the hero or heroine will use their years of understanding of each other to start a new pursuit, and finally the two successfully remarry or get back together.
This conflict between the sexes will form a very strong comedy effect, allowing you to understand the meaning of the movie to you even in laughter.
In the film, the new partner is generally portrayed as a gentle and considerate image, just a tool person on the emotional road of the hero and heroine.
And now the remarriage comedy genre is more diverse.
In addition to the above, the marriage relationship between the male and female protagonists will also be described in the genre of emotional mashup spy films, such as “Mr Smith & Mrs Smith”.
It will also discuss the emotional nature of marriage between men and women, such as “The Secret” and so on.
The most classic section in “Mr Smith & Mrs Smith” is that the hero and heroine are driving a car and flirting, sweet and exciting.
Love at first sight – tragic love routine
In the tragic romance films of Hollywood, the love between the male and female protagonists is almost always caused by love at first sight.
When they met for the first time, the male protagonist was attracted by the stunning beauty of the female protagonist, and then the two began to fall in love.
In the end, they couldn’t be together due to various practical reasons.
This kind of routine is very obvious in the famous love film “Titanic”.
The male protagonist, Jack, is a bohemian young painter who accidentally got a ticket and boarded a ship called the Titanic.
And the heroine Rose is a rich girl with a wealthy family background. Although she is dressed in fine clothes and food, she is extremely disgusted with this kind of life.
After jumping into the sea and being rescued by Jack, the two soon began to fall in love. However, due to some practical reasons, the two people who love each other are separated forever.
Love is beautiful and sweet, and this film wouldn’t be a classic today if it was just beautiful.
The sweet love is mixed with obstacles and sadness, which can make people feel the precious and profound of this love.
Who doesn’t know a classic scene from “Titanic”?
It was Jack who was holding Rose in the back, a scene that many fans can’t forget to this day.
No matter what type of romantic movie, Hollywood can always accurately grasp the audience’s psychological needs, stimulate the audience’s emotional tears, and thus trigger empathy.
Although Hollywood has no innovative routines, it still reproduces a lot of love dreams.
