Including Silver Linings Playbook and The Break Up Plan

1. GENRE RESEARCH
ROMANTIC COMEDIES

2. WHAT ROMANTIC COMEIDES ARE
THERE?

3. Romantic comedies – what makes a good
one:
 AN ACTION'S WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS
And while we're on the subject of holding the big screen, consider making your romantic comedy
a MOVIE, as opposed to a stillie. Great movies move -- and romantic comedy duds talk themselves
to death. I know that many of us lovers of the form are drawn to it precisely because it's often
about wonderfully pithy, sharp, delicious repartee. But too much talk can be the difference
between a pass (because what you've written is more like a play or a TV show) and a green light-
because your romantic comedy can really pull people into a multiplex.
 How active is your script? How visually exciting? While you may not have the mudslides, wild
chases and fireworks 'Romancing the Stone' delivered, you may have a set, a setting, world or a
physical comedy opportunity that will open up and enliven your movie. Even the verbal-witty 'Four
Weddings and a Funeral' featured a Scottish reel in colorful kilts. 'Annie Hall' is packed with sight
gags, from the cocaine sneeze to the errant lobsters. Make sure your script makes use of all the
cinematic storytelling techniques a good movie- movie uses.

4. Silver Linings Playbook:
The Silver Linings Playbook is a film which was based on a
novel by Matthew Quick and released in 2012. The film falls
into the romance, comedy and drama genre and the film trailer
is effective in the way it comes across with the genre. The film
poster (left) also looks really effective. It’s genre are presented
though the use of colours and the structure of the trailer. There
is also the language used and the high key lighting mainly
used throughout. The emotions also put forward by characters
highlight the genre of the film and this is done very effectively.

5. The Back-up Plan:
The back-up plan is a light hearted romantic
comedy released in 2010. Given a PG13 rating
the film uses flirtatious language but is family
friendly due to the light humour which it has.
This is something that runs throughout the
trailer which highlights the genre of film. The
film poster is also comical in the way that it is
presented. The top half of it or the tagline is
seen as comical because of the way that it is
put forwards a rhetorical. It comes across
cheeky and naughty which most good romantic
comedies have.