The document discusses the genre of romantic drama films. It notes that these films typically focus on the passion and emotions involved in love, relationships, and marriage. Common storylines involve lovers facing obstacles like illness, financial problems, differences in social class or race, or forbidden love. The films often depict themes of love at first sight, young love between partners of different ages, obsessive love, sacrificial love, and both tragic and happy endings. The document provides brief descriptions of romantic scenes and themes from popular films like Titanic, Dirty Dancing, A Walk to Remember, The Notebook, and Grease.
3. Most interesting and touching for me
Most films I watch are romantic drama
Inspirational scenes were mostly based on
this genre
Have a better knowledge about the
conventions on this genre.
4. Love stories
Affairs
Focus on passion emotions
Journey love takes through marriage
Usually lovers face obstacles
Illness
Financial problems
Racial
Social class status
Sexual orientation
5. Love at first sight
young with older love
obsessive love
forbidden love
sacrificial love
Tragic love
Ending with a ‘’happily ever after’’
Reunion of family
Final kiss
Not all have happy endings
7. Titanic
Dirty dancing
• the most
difficult part of
the dance
•Practiced
through the
•Dancing scene
entire film, never
• memorable
• flying scene went right
• unexpected
• very romantic
• remember her
• original (never happened
and the ‘tickles’
before)
• memorable
• shows the love
8. The
A walk to remember
notebook
• first kiss of the
couple
• romantic
atmosphere
• unexpected
Grease •Ending scene
•They die holding
hands
• very romantic
• Sad
•Final scene
•Knows one is expecting these
changes
•Memorable
9. (Conflict)
Man gets threatened to leave
wife otherwise she will die. He
leaves her, full of despair she
leaves home gets run over and
3. Man divorces
dies. How will he react to this ?
from his wife as
he finds out his
interest in men,
she loves him so
much that she
ends up killing
him as she thinks Drama
if he’s not hers he 1. 2o year old boy obsessed
is no one else's . over a 16 year old rich
(obsession) girl, tries to rape her
(obsession)
2. Women always been jealous of
cousin because she was the
perfect one therefore decides
to kill her to stay with cousin’s
husband (revenge)
10. Married for 3 years
Husband gets a letter threatening him to
leave his wife that he loves, otherwise she
will die
Husband to save her, pretends he has an
attraction for his friend
Wife in despair and confusion leaves house
without thinking
wife gets run over by a car and dies
Husband feels guilty tries to commit suicide
when he hears his wife’s voice telling him to
be strong and that wasn't his fault
11. Close up shot of wedding rings
husband looks at letter threatening him
Flashbacks of wife leaving the house in tears
Sound of car breaks
Wife laying on road with husband on his
knees, crying, holding her hand (reverse
zoom )
13. Wedding rings – who is married ?
What was matt’s excuse to leave the wife ?
How did he react to the wife’s death ?
14. People from 15 to 20
Mostly females
Romantic people
Enjoys drama romance
Believe in love
Interesting to target audience :
Using characters that are more or less the
same age
Using realistic problems in these peoples
lives