Can you believe it's been nearly a YEAR since I did a rom-com post?! Bullshit, right? Well-p, you can blame Hollywood for that. Seems like these days most artists down in Tinseltown are more interested in bashing our current president in office than focus on. THE. MOST. IMPORTANT. MOVIE GENRE OF. THEM. ALL!! ! That being--
The Romantic Comedy!!!
All that is with the exception of Amy Schumer. She is the ONE hope that I have for the rom-com genre right now. How did it ever come to that? Sad... but I do think Amy IS capable of reviving the genre. She just has "it", saw it in "Trainwreck" (2015: story by Amy Schumer, directed by Judd Apatow). If she can ever get beyond her bias against Republicans maybe we could work together someday... Hmm. Well, I do have a rom-com in me that I would like to write with her to have her star in. But I digress... back to the crux of his post.
"O, snap! E.C. Henry likes me... Fuck it, he's a Republican."
When I was editing the 2nd book in an epic fantasy series I had an epiphany. It came when a villainous character of mine was reflecting back on his love life and remembering when the love of his life fell in love with someone else. (Got your romantic attention yet?) Anyway during this character's time of reflection it suddenly dawned on me that this character was giving his impression of when two characters had a moment where the knew that they knew that they were destined for each other. Now, this moment CRUSHED this villainous character and in retrospect sent him on a new trajectory--which for him, personally was a bad one, BUT for those two other characters was their moment where the knew that they knew that they were destined for each other.
Get where I'm coming from? Hope so, because this is the "magic point" of love. It's that moment of revelation where you know that you know that you either love someone, or are going to next step further and marry that person.
I love the rom-com genre, and the truths it allows its audience to see. Love. Ever felt it for someone? If so how did that look?
Or maybe like this:
Or perhaps this:
Be that from "How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days" (2002), "Sleepless in Seattle" (1993) or "While You Were Sleeping" (1996) chances are the moment that you knew that you knew you were in love (or going to marry that girl) was a strange, yet magical moment. These are the things that MAKE this genre. The very heart of EVERYTHING the rom-com genre is about; when you know that you know that you love someone.
I hope that everyone has a that key rom-com moment in their life; when the they have their confession of love. Why? Because that's what fills your heart with good. That's the kind of thing that makes life worth living.
Okay, Sherlock. Mr. La-ooove king. Have you ever had that moment? No. I'm going to be 48 years old in a little over 2 weeks from now, and no I've never experienced that either on the receiving or the giving end. And YES that is GREAT lament of mine. Why be so honest about that? I'm almost 48 years old and single as all fuck, what do I got to lose!!! (Okay, that was the raunch part in me that just made a rare appearance)
But in all seriousness I love the rom-com genre because in it, in various place that can be found you get to see people find their soul mates. You get to see that priceless expression on their face where the know that that know that love someone. That's an expression that should NEVER be undersold. In real life sometimes we hear about these moments when people talk about their own trek to the aisle. I HOPE that in my own life I get to experience that, and I hope you do too.
I'm sap, I know.
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