Character Types in Romantic Comedies

In romantic comedies the way the characters are portrayed in each movie is extremely similar; this is so that they are seen as the conventional romantic comedy character. It is usually about a guy that gets all the girls that he wants when he wants and a girl who is extremely pretty not like most of the girls this and is not so interested in him at first or doesn't show it and this is what makes him chase after her and want to eventually start dating her. Moreover, there is usually an ex-girlfriend in the movie that instantly does not like the ‘new girl’ that has her ex-boyfriends attention and tries to get in their relationships way either with her popularity and her friends or just being mean and making her look like a fool. A major example of this conventional type of movie is Mean Girls you have Cady (red head) is the new girl and then Regina (blonde to the left) is the ex-girlfriend. This type of conventional teenage romantic comedy happens all the time and is very common. Another example is Bratz its is the exact same thing however the change is in the scene, the characters, actors, script and a few other things but everything else is pretty much the same.

In addition in conventional movies like above there is always the ex-girlfriend or current girlfriends, friends that she has to help her look more intimidating but this is mainly used in high school based movies.

An unconventional romantic comedy is She’s The Man, the whole movie is done through a girl being around the guy she likes as a herself and pretending to be her twin brother at a football school (being the man). This allowed Viola (girl) to get the boy she likes through also being her brother Sebastian. This movie is not the mainstream romantic comedy that comes to people’s minds when they think about romantic comedies.

Posted by Guleed Hashi