Romantic comedies used to be a big part of a movie studio's release slate. Where did they all go?
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“Less people are getting married, or getting married young now than they were years ago, and the whole dating culture with the apps and online, there’s a subtle sea change in what that audience is looking at in terms of romantic comedy entertainment,” Billy Mernit, author of “
Writing the Romantic Comedy” and story analyst at Universal, told Business Insider. “So you have the studios still making the same formulaic romantic comedy where it's a courtship story that leads to marriage, and it usually revolves around a young professional woman who gets a leg up by getting involved with an alpha male. The target audience, the twentysomethings and above, just no longer related to that kind of a movie and yet the studios seemed to be tone deaf to that change.”
My reactions...
1. Alpha males don't want a young professional woman. Alpha males, if they want a long term relationship, would prefer a woman with a less demanding career.
2. The only men impressed with women's career achievements are beta males.
3. I think the quote I provided is correct about the change in the dating culture and swipe apps. There are fewer real life meetings. It's difficult to make a romantic comedy about people meeting on a swipe app. There was a famous rom com about the early days of online dating, "You've Got Mail" in 1997.
4. One of the last big rom coms was 2015's "Trainwreck", featuring Amy Schumer as the lead. Amy Schumer was an overweight, mid-30s woman. That's ridiculous.
my lord.
