Deep Dive: Rom Coms

• Uncategorized

February 3, 2022

Valentine’s Day is just around the corner!! Everyone’s favorite holiday, right? Who doesn’t love an entire day devoted to cheesy pick-up lines, mediocre chocolate, and oversized stuffed animals!? And the best part – cheesy Rom-Coms! Whether you love to hate them or hate to love them, you have to admit that sitting down on Valentine’s Day weekend with your closest friends or your significant other, eating too much junk food, and watching a romantic comedy just can’t be beat!

Romantic comedies are films that portray love in a comedic and light-hearted way. Romcoms have been around for a long time, beginning on the stage long before film even came around. Some early examples of romantic comedies come from the great playwright himself, William Shakespeare. Some of his plays, such as A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Much Ado About Nothing follow a typical romantic comedy form. Two people meet for the first time, a conflict arises, trying to stop them from falling in love, but the stars align, and they find their way back to each other and live happily ever after. Cheesy – I know. We love to make fun of the unrealistic nature of these films, but we can’t help but sit on the edge of our seats, wishing that they would finally find each other again. We want to believe in love!

There are many different tropes of the classic Romcom. There’s your classic hallmark movie – big city businessman falls in love with the small-town girl. There’s the Fake-Relationship-turns-True-Love (shout out To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before!), which is possibly the cheesiest of all cheesy love stories. We can’t forget about the classic Forbidden Love, beautifully depicted in the classic play Romeo and Juliet. And my personal favorite – Friends to Falling in Love, two best friends searching for love and finally realize that what they have been looking for has been right in front of them the whole time!

Whatever classic storyline you love the most, you can be sure to find it at our Romantic Comedy Movie Marathon on February 12! We will be in the LaHaye Event Space enjoying classic love stories all evening long! If mushy love stories aren’t your thing, we will also be viewing some classic, heartfelt coming of age stories featuring the love shared between friends and sisters such Princess Diaries and Little Women (two of my favorites!) Bring your friends or your own true love to laugh, cry, and cringe over some of the best cheesy romantic comedies of our generation.

---