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Well done Alex - a good initial post to your blog. Write posts about the other genres we have studied in class and also explain whether or not these would be genres you would like to make your film in and explain some of the pros and cons in each of them. You need to also begin to analyse the opening two minutes of some films - at least three - and explain how they hook the audience in. What do we find out about the genre, characters and the plot? A pleasing start - keep pushing yourself Alex.

Romance Cliches

The Romance genre is one of the most chiched in movie history and is usaly based on the simple boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy finds girl again, formula, but this almost never happens, and for the most part the boy has nothing to do with it. The cliche that actually serves as the infrastructure of the classic romance is that the female lead almost never ends up with the man she was originally supposed to spend the rest of her life with, and of course, there will be the manditory "mystic L shaped blancet" moment when the two caracters are in bed and the woman has rhe sheets bulled up to her armpits and the man has his chest bare for the world to see. Other manditory cliches invlove the classic "will they/wont they" moments when the two leads but into each other in ohhh, lets say the street, and they look into each others eyes and then one or both of them will be pulled away by more pressing engagements, and of course there is the faithful side kick, or the well meaning idiot buddy, who convinces him/her to try and find the man/woman of his/her dreams again or gives stupid, but well meaning, advice and will either be the the womans freinds (uslay one fat, one of mixed race, and one gay man) while the bloke will have either one extreamly good friend or a group of them, with at least one of them being the oh so common being in romance known as a Player who will somethimes try to get into bed with his girl and by the end will eiter belive in true love, or still be a Player. However the male lead NEVER has a lesbian best freiend.
And then we get to the parents, one of whitch (uslay the mother) will be pushy to the EXTREAM, desperate to get the daughter married off to a "suitable" man in her eyes and will always disaprove of the man she will end up with at the end of the film at first and will uslay be a bit old fasioned, such as the mother in bridget Jones. Wile the father on the other hand will usaly be a lot more laid back and tell her to "follow her heart", while the mans parents very rarely come into the film, if at all.
Most films will open with one of the leads reading a monolog about love, usaly along the lines of why love is so hard to find but sometimes, if you look where you werent expecting, you can find it, whenever there is something l;ike this i always exepect to hear "You Can't Always Get What You Want" by the Rolling Stones in the background (no you can't always get what you want, but if you try somethime, you might just find, what you need).
One of the great cliches is the fact that one or both of the leads will find the other annoying or come from completly differnt backgrounds, unofficaly known as the "Leathal Weapon 3 rule" the two will have such and intense arguement over some major differnce in there caracter they will fall instantly into a hellples plie of passoin and lust and said differnence will not bother them again.