Romantic comedies are a subgenre of romantic comedies and movies. Romantic comedies are spreading as the most successful film genre within film romance, it is clear that audiences, especially couples, are looking to spend more time in entertainment. This is why in the course of a few years we have seen how the options multiply on the undercard for the romantic comedy genre, so are movies like 50 First Dates, Bridget Jones or Day Valentine.
The romantic comedy is born from the screwball comedy, a subgenre that emerged in the United States during the 1930s, time of the Great Depression, which focused on the entanglements of the protagonists, a man and a woman, who kept the audience waiting to discover how they would be together. The Screwball comedies tackled conflicts between social classes, capturing the statemood of the time by portraying the economic crisis, but offering a glimpse of hope through the characters who, in the end, overcome all obstacles. Films like It Happened One Night (1934), 20th Century (1934) and Bringing Up Baby (1938) were successful because they provided relief in a context of adversity; They offered hope that things could change.
However, the playful complacency of the screwball comedy came to be seen as frivolous when the United States became involved in World War II; this meant the disappearance of the subgenre, which was considered inappropriate for a world that had become much more bleak, dangerous and violent.
Romantic comedies are always interpreted by a young and beautiful couple, who are also professionally successful or on the way to achieving it, and when they meet they begin an erratic succession of attitudes and situations - which is what produces humor - until they end with the end happy infallible.
All films in the genre have these elements and this one does not have to be the exception. However, as always, the question is in the skills of the writer and director to find the chemistry, so that the scheme works with its slight variations.
The female audience is the one who especially enjoys these types of love stories which, of course, can also please men. In fact, it is a perfect plan for a romantic date. A type of cinema that tells pleasant stories and leaves a sweet taste in the viewer by showing an ideal universe in which fate seems to be in the hands of the protagonists of the love story.
