Filmmakers updating the stale genre for a Netflix-assisted comeback in the #MeToo era say they are avoiding “insulting” tropes while embracing gender swaps, empowerment and even grand gestures: “If done in the right way, it won't feel creepy.'
. Though theatrically the genre is still struggling, a few streaming figures suggest it's back in a big way: In October 2018, Netflix reported in a shareholder letter that more than 80 million accounts globally had watched one or more of the summer's rom-coms.
Gender-swapping isn't the only way writers are rethinking rom-coms and rom-com adjacent comedies for audiences now. Donald Diego, scribe of the upcoming Sarah Hyland moviefrom Byron Allen's Entertainment Studios, crafted an interracial romance, which he hadn't seen much of in the genre. "Black and brown people … can have goals that aren't 'safety,' " he says. "They can be trying to find love in movies and self-actualize.
miniseries , based on the 1994 Hugh Grant-Andie MacDowell film. Wigfield played with the trope of the gay best friend who isn't given much else to do except gossip with the heroine, offer style advice or come out . "You meet the gay interior design assistant as a go-to for Rebecca Rittenhouse's character, but in the next couple of episodes, he has his own love story that is part of the series," says Wigfield.
What else telegraphs as retrograde today? Creators list the makeover that helps a female protagonist land her crush ; what Feig calls the "insulting" trope of the "ice-queen" businesswoman who chooses between her career and her happiness ; and the rich man who falls for an employee with significantly less power .
Romantic comedies have always shape-shifted to suit the times. The 1930s screwball comedies featuring female professionals gave way to the 1950s-1970s' "sex comedies" (
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