Boy has lost girl, and where has she gone? Where-oh-where, do you suppose? That's right, my little rom-com chick-o-lettes. And learning of this, what, pray tell, whatever does the poor boy do? Can you possibly imagine? Yuh-huh!If you've ever succumbed to this cliché in your own writing, feel free to 'fess up. It worked for me.
HE RACES TO THE AIRPORT TO STOP HER FROM LEAVING BY DECLARING HIS LOVE.
Monday, September 17, 2007
The biggest rom-com cliché
On his blog, author and script analyst Billy Mernit is fuming against a rom-com cliché.
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I have to confess I've drafted such an ending, then in my consultations read about five of them in one year.
ReplyDeleteRight up there with (in other genres) being introduced to the hero having a "flashback/dream" and waking up in a cold sweat.
I prefer what one Hollywood writer did in the 1940's when he wanted to be fired from a Rin Tin Tin film. He had the dog carry a baby INTO a burning building.
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