“Just Go With It” is a typical romantic comedy directed by Dennis Dugan. The genre, romantic comedy, contains lighthearted plots carefully designed to amuse and provoke laughter among an audience. This version of comedy is accomplished by using jokes, one-liners, exaggerated situations, language, and relationships. The main purpose of a romantic comedy is to display the adventures of generally young lovers trying to overcome social challenges, concluding with a happy and expected ending. The codes and conventions used in romantic comedies are plot, main characters, lighting, music, and the repetitive themes of love and fate. Specifically in “Just Go With It,” the characters, plot, and use of camera are what define it as a romantic comedy, combining together to provide the audience the message of fate and honesty in a comedic way.
In the film, “Just Go With It”, the main character Danny responds to a heartbreak by hooking up with other women, telling them lies using a fake ring to get sympathy. The setting begins at a bar and ends at a resort in Hawaii. The bar symbolizes the challenges Danny faces when dealing with heartbreak and how he responds to them. The transition into a beautiful resort provides the audience with the lightheartedness of the film and is an appropriate setting for the theme of love. The next character introduced is Katherine, who is Danny's assistant. She represents the blind side of Danny since he does not realize that she could be the right woman for him. Danny and Katherine have a humorous, but close relationship, which gives the audience the first hint of the upcoming plot. The last main character is Palmer, a blonde he meets at a party. He then begins a web of lies after she finds his old wedding ring i...
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...y being the best policy. After Danny tells the truth to Palmer and Katherine admits that she loves Danny, all the conflicts resolve and the weight of lies is taken off the characters' shoulders. This shows the audience the moral concept of truth and displays the consequences of lying versus being honest. Fate and honesty were the two main values conveyed in the film that tied together to form a comedic storyline about love.
To conclude, “Just Go With It” is an appropriate example of a romantic comedy because it includes a lighthearted atmosphere while still including the comedic conflicts revolving around romance the main characters go through found in a typical romantic comedy film. The film conveys its value messages of fate and honesty through the plot and uses codes and conventions like camera shots, characters, and plot, defining it as a true romantic comedy.
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Love is such a small word that holds such a strong meaning. Many people in their lives, at some point, contemplate about love, dream about it, and even lose sleep over it. Why is it that so many people imagine what love is? This one word, with many meanings, is so problematic to explain and yet it is impossible to live without. The movies in the romance section of this course, each depict a type of love many of us might go through. The first two films, Water for Elephants and How Do You Know, explore the concept of finding love. Whereas, the film Groundhog Day emphasizes the notion one has to become a loving person before one can love. Lastly, The Painted Veil and Stuck Between Stations explores the idea of creating love and seeing goodness in one another. Therefore, all of these films have a specific structure leading us to the notion that love seems to be the center of all things, both in giving and receiving, and can ultimately have many different meanings.
‘Lad flicks’ or ‘lad movies’ is a type of film genre that emerged in the late 1990s. They are defined as a “‘hybrid of “buddy movies”, romantic comedies and “chick flicks”, which centre on the trials and tribulations of a young man as he grows up to become a ‘real man’. ‘Lad flicks’ respond in part to the much-debated ‘crisis in masculinity’” (Benjamin A. Brabon 116). This genre of film explored what it meant to be a ‘real man’ in the twentieth century and in order to do so, they would have to grow up and leave their juvenile ways behind to enter the heterosexual world. Gender relations in ‘lad flicks’ portray masculinity as a troubled, anxious cultural category hiding behind a humorous façade and also rely greatly on a knowing gaze and irony. The two ‘lad flicks’ that will be analyzed are The 40-Year-Old Virgin (Judd Apatow 2005) and Role Models (David Wain 2008).
The genre of romantic comedies sets up a framework of generic conventions for each film. Although they usually have the construction, each film is developed in their own unique way. The amusing, comical, and dramatic movies follow the basic structure of the unfulfilled desire of love in the lives of the main characters, a situation that they are put in that provides a chance for potential romance, and then though several obstacles, a realization that they are a perfect match and live “happily ever after”.
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A first date, a tender touch, a gentle kiss, can all be described as expressions of affection. Innocence often has to do with the fondness and adoration displayed in relationships. The movie, Love Actually, starring Hugh Grant, focuses on different ways of making love work by showing the lives of different people. The film, from time to time, shows a little boy who is falling in love with a girl in his school. He thinks that the best way to win her heart is to become a rock star and so he joins his school band as a drummer. He practices the drum everyday until it’s time for the Christmas concert where he plays his best. At first, the girl does not notice him and he is heartbroken and to make matters worse, she’s leaving the country. He goes to the airport to find her, and, when he does, he kisses her and lets her know that he likes her. While the film does not tell the audience what happens in the future, it can be assumed that there will be a new love blossoming.
Like the stereotypical love triangle, that is in "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn p.1" .... Now I adore twilight I even named my car after the main lead male character (Edward), but I have to admit that the stress for the need of an "romantic" relationship between Jacob and Bella is extremely aggravating. The same thing goes for "Just Go With It" Adam Sandler's character is in denial that he doesn't belong with heron that was helping him with his plan.
Romance movies have this weird love that goes on in them. Some characteristics include; sex scenes, lovey dovey affection, hate (sometimes) that ends up in love, marriages, divorces, new found love, and really anything that can happen between a man and female, female and female, man and man, whichever someone prefers. Romance movies are often seen as “chick flicks” while some may agree, others disagree. The ONLY reason they are considered “chick flicks” is because it’s a romance and theirs sappy love. There is no real evidence of it being labeled as a “chicks only flick”, men actually prefer to watch some of those movies. It doesn’t make them weak, homosexual acting, a pansy, or anything else men might call other men. Romance movies and novels are highly bought in stores. Who knows? It may be bought by your future husband or wife. And, since this paper is describing the differences, parents might look at this and decide whether or not to show the kids these types of
A story of love, romance films often have the themes of love at first sight, young (and older) love, unrequited love, tragic love, etc. Romantic comedies and chick flicks are the main genres these themes. Romance films were created as a fantasy for viewers to escape and experience a “happily ever after” (Romance films). The intended audience is generally women and teenager. This fantasy world that has been created had begun to create false expectation of what real love is. With the popularity of these films leads to the idea that, people’s perception of love is greatly influenced by films, and this leads to false expectations of how people perceive real relationships.