Romantic Comedy

Romantic comedy is on of the hottest themes in movies and I can easily name twenty romantic comedy movies that really burned the charts and are considered some of the most sellable movies of the century. Proof? I still have to see an action star who has not ventured into being a major cast in a good romantic comedy theme which means that there is really a huge market who gets crazy when that genre is now showing. And since hundreds of romantic comedies have been made dealing with hundreds of romantic comedy angles from the dead husband not really leaving the earth yet and hovering over his still alive wife to a girl who falls into a deep sleep every now and then who meets guy and the story revolves there, coming up with a new and untapped romantic comedy approach would be a very hard task. One reason why writing a good romantic comedy is quite a challenge is because you have to come up with so many reasons and twists that keeps them apart until the story nears its end.
If you are on the drawing board and you have thought of a runaway winner as a general plot on a romantic comedy script, here are some ways to keep them apart as long as you want them to be. You can start by putting the lovers apart and placing them in different countries, so far that it would take them days before they see each other the moment they decide to and create twists along the way. Or, you can make characters that are ages apart and that would mean a truckload of differences, a scenario where arguments are aplenty. And that leads us to another hot reason to keep the characters apart and that would be miscommunication focusing on how each of the main characters misconstrued each other.
Opposing values such as lovers who belong to warring political families or business opponents or a girl who fights for the environment and a guy who works for a huge oil firm – these thick walls would really spur a good number of twists which you can extend for a good thirty minutes or more. Nevertheless, since we have thought of these angles, it is not a far-fetched idea that others have also come across the same stories and that would mean that we have to go deeper and more absurd, if I may put it that way. You can use the more prevalent issues in life like for instance people who met and fell in love via social networking or relatives of a person who have been hospitalized, sharing the same room, and that is where they met. There is still a rich cornucopia of topics that have not been used and you just have to delve deeper. Work on people’s character and create situations for it.