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    The Screwball comedy is a film genre that found its way onto the screens in the early 1930s and lasted till the early 1940s. They were a consequence of the newly adapted censorship law in 1934 that restricted addressing adult content on screen. They therefore incorporated more comedic and creative ways of symbolizing topics such as sex and homosexuality. Screwball comedies were mainly based on plots that had conflict between social classes as their many premise and always had a happy ending which

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    Kyle Kyle’s friend goes up for a layup, but it gets smacked against garage door. Kyle gets the rebound because there are no outs in this 1vs1 and shoots a three and it’s nothing but net. The score is a blowout Kyle’s demolishing Jacob. He gets another rebound after Jacob misses his shot and while Jacob is trying to get his own rebound, but Kyle easily gets it over Jacob because he’s taller than Jacob is. “Hey Kyle how about letting me get a rebound for a change?” asks Jacob. “Maybe if

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    The romantic comedy is a subgenre that has as its central narrative the quest for love that almost always ends with a successful conclusion. It accents love in a light and upbeat manner while also frequently embracing sentimental or melodramatic story developments. Similar to every other genre, it has a set of characteristics or conventions that allow the audience to know what to expect. The key traits that allow one to recognize a movie as a romantic comedy are its realistic characters, traditional

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    Romantic Comedies: Hitch vs. Along Came Polly In 2004, John Hamburg-directed a movie named “Along Came Polly”, a romantic comedy about betrayal and love. A year later Andy Tennant conducted “Hitch”, a movie based on men attracting the opposite sex. Both films take place in New York and illustrate the emotional and physical traits the main characters experience on an everyday life. In the movie “Hitch” Alex Hitchens is a sentimental advisor, and he teaches clients how to date the woman they

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    My Big Fat Greek Wedding

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    popularity of romantic comedies has become a vehicle for constructed messages and values intended for a specific audience. Colloquially referred to as “chick flicks”, this specific genre is targeted to women in order to depict the Hollywood standard of how women should act, as well as the composition of an ideal relationship. Romantic comedies often strongly enforce unrealistic portrayals of romance, which alters women’s expectations of a normal relationship. The popular romantic comedy, My Big Fat Greek

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    Farrelly Brothers Theme

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    popular and successful romantic comedies of all time, There’s Something about Mary by the Farrelly Brothers, was, for the most part, acclaimed by both critics and audiences. As a romantic comedy, the deepest and most underlying subject/theme of the film has to be love, yet there are so many layers of lesser subjects and themes that collectively contribute to the ultimate theme of love that it’s a wonder how it all comes together so effortlessly. The statement that the film makes about the subject of love

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    the unique aspect of the industry is that it is so expansive in all of the different categories and types of movies, but yet each film is individualized. A certain characteristic of a movie may appeal to one person and not another. Such characteristics may not only appeal to an individual but to a certain group of people. Could it be that characteristics of a film appeal to either the male gender or the female gender? Is there a difference in the category of movie that a male chooses as opposed

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