The romance film is a film genre characterized by arguments portray constructed events and characters related to the expression of love and romantic relationships. The romantic cinema focuses on the representation of a love story of two participants, which goes through the main stages of the conception of love such as courtship and marriage.
This cinematographic genre frequently explores key elements in the popular conception of love, building its argument from situations such as love at first sight, chronologically discordant love (love between a person of young age and a person of mature age), love tragic, destructive love, passionate sexual love, homo, erotic, love and impossible love. The romantic cinema is characterized by portraying a love story or the search for love as the main argument of the film, supporting situations outside the main argument that would hinder the continuity of love between the couple who starred in the plot of the film. Loving obstacles include the perception of an impossible love, infidelity, the love incompatibility, the love-hate, the illness, the money, the social discrimination and the intervention of people who try to end the love of the couple.
Romantic cinema constitutes the audiovisual adaptation of love in words or the literary love of the romance novel. One of the first film works considered romantic cinema was the 1896 short film by William Heise, Der Kuss (The Kiss), this short film starring May Irwin and John Rice showed images of both actors giving each other a kiss on the lips.
With the entrance of the 20th century, love became popular on screens. The theme of love between two people was marketed and new film titles that portrayed love during the first three decades of the twentieth century in the silent film period began to emerge. Some silent film titles that included love as main plot were Camille (1915) directed by Albert Capellani, Intolerance (1916) directed by David Wark Griffith, Male and Female (1919) directed by Cecil B. DeMille, The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921) directed by Rex Ingram, The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923) directed by Wallace Worsley and The Garden of Eden (1928) directed by Lewis Milestone.
Romantic cinema gained great popularity with the arrival of sound films, which allowed a greater understanding of the audience and an increase in the complexity of film production. Beginning in the 1930s, new sound films began to be produced (usually based on existing novels) that began to have greater complexity because they included more extensive dialogues and music that accompanied the film's environment. Some notable titles of the decade of the 30's and 40's include: Chained (1934) directed by Clarence Brown, Camille (1936) directed by George Cukor and The Philadelphia Story (1940) directed by George Cukor. In the 1930s a subgenre of romantic cinematography flourished, the romantic comedy with exponents such as: It Happened One Night (1934) and Bringing Up Baby (1938).
In the 50's when the romantic cinema reached its peak during the film production of the golden age of Hollywood. This period is the time in which new genres of romantic cinema appeared and developed, such as the romantic thriller, chick flick, romantic comedy and romantic drama.
Directed by Herbert Ross, the film stars Richard Dreyfuss, Marsha Mason, Quinn Cummings and Paul Benedict. The script original Neil Simon revolves around a trio-a strange actor who struggle sublet an apartment from a friend in Manhattan, the current occupant (his friend's ex-girlfriend, who has just been abandoned) and his precocious daughter. Richard Dreyfuss won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance as Elliot Garfield. At the time, he became the youngest man to win an Oscar for Best Actor. At the age of 29 at the time of filming, Richard Dreyfuss was the youngest actor until 2002 to receive the Best Actor Oscar. In 2002, Adrien Brody broke this record, with the Oscar received by The Pianist.
Will Kane is successful as a businessman, he has his own restaurant in Manhattan and as a man, he automatically and mutually flirts with the first beauty he meets. He is an aging but still charming specimen. At a party in his culinary hotel, Will accidentally impressed young Charlotte, the inventor of crazy hats, celebrating her 22nd birthday. Cleverly played by a trick from his rich arsenal, he lures her on a date, where the story of life and love begins, their true meaning in gaining. Who is Charlotte's girlfriend for Will? New affair. And he explains to her, already said hundreds of times, that they have no future. None of his previous passions have been able to fend off this. But not Charlotte: she has a heart disease that only miraculously allowed her to live so long. So she does not have a future for their relationship. Both live this very minute. She gave him love, stirred his feelings. Pain and happiness, suffering and cruel sadness also came. But he gave her even more - life. She reconciled to her fate, not wanting to give hope to her relatives. But, as you know, hope dies last, and she has found an incentive to fight for life she does not want to leave it. It happens that life rewards a few daredevils.. But, not this time. In the early morning, Will prepared a favorite surprise, but she suddenly felt ill. The emergency operation didn't help either, and Will, along with relatives, learned from the surgeon that Charlotte was gone.
Paige Morgan (Julia Stiles) is a pre-medicine student at a University of Wisconsin. The Prince of Denmark, Edvard (Luke Mably), on the other hand, avoids his princely duties (including opening a cabinet meeting) instead of competing with sports cars. While watching television after a cabinet meeting, Edvard watches a commercial for a reality show in Wisconsin called College Girls Gone Wild, where there are drunken boys and girls without a bra. After meeting with his parents, King Haraald (James Fox), and Queen Rosalind (Miranda Richardson), Edvard announces his intention to attend college in the United States specifically, New York. Although his parents do not want him to leave, Edvard tells them that he will go with or without his consent, and that he does not want any help or money. The king sends Edvard's assistant, Søren (Ben Miller), to accompany the trip to the United States. When Edvard arrives at the university, Søren's orders are to keep his identity a secret, and they call him "Eddie". Also, his limo almost hits Paige. Later in a bar Eddie sees Paige, again, where he flirts with her. Eddie asks Paige if he can take off his shirt, just like the girls at College Girls Gone Wild. Paige angrily wets Eddie with the drinking hose and the escorts of Eddie (and Søren), come to his rescue at the bar. After running out of money, Eddie gets a job in the bar's charcuterie section, even with Paige as a reference. Paige reluctantly helps you during your first day. Eddie asks her out, but she refuses. After Eddie helps Paige learn to play Shakespeare, Paige is prompted by a friend whom he invited to his house for thanksgiving. Once there, Eddie participates in a lawnmower race, even beating rivals in the Morgan family. However, a fight occurs. After healing their wounds, Eddie and Paige kiss.
Tess Harding is a correspondent for a New York newspaper. She falls in love with Sam Craig, a columnist. A romance blossoms and it doesn't take long before they give each other the yes. But just as quickly the marriage appears not to work. Tess has too many political responsibilities and puts her career above her marriage. Sam, however, wants Tess to be a housewife. When Tess announces that it is time to have children, Sam finally thinks he will have the marriage he has always wanted. However, she decides to adopt a Greek orphan, something Sam doesn't like. He is fed up and is requesting a divorce. Once apart, they realize that they can no longer live without each other.