Romantic Comedy

• What films do you consider "Romantic Comedy?"
• What quality do many of these films possess that make them “Romantic Comedies?”
• What things show up again and again?
• What kinds of characters do we see? How do they interact with each other?
• What happens in the plots?
• What are the settings?

Here are some notes on tropes and cliches of the genre, as well as the "meet cute."

Other fun stuff...

• Here's a great video that counts down the top 10 Romance Cliches
• Every best friend cliche rolled into one scene (from the romantic comedy parody They Came Together)
• How do men talk about relationships in Rom-Coms? Over sports...