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sean10mm posted:I really hate the poo poo out of Hitch for reasons that are hard to articulate. It's mostly a by the numbers "Cool dude and lady too cool for his being cool have a wacky misunderstanding and then hook up at the end" thing. It's less about tearing down the cool black guy than it is that the standard method of conflict in RomComs is the unreasonable actions of one or both of the halves of the focus couple. It's hard to write a funny script about two crazy kids falling in love without one or both of them being psychopaths apparently. This is also why so often the significant other of one or both parties in the love equation is either also totally irredeemable or is a saint who is broken up with for flabbergastingly stupid reasons. If the core conflict of the story isn't revolving around the wacky antics of these two people drawn together by cupid arrow, you've got to spend time and energy coming up with an actual conflict that brings them together. Most often a half assed conflict is devised to place the two characters on the board so they can duke it out battle chess style and at the end when they finally "really" get together we can just pretend it was a funny story about love. I haven't watched and remembered enough of the genre to be certain, by my feeling is that the woman in most of these movies is usually the, or at least the more, insane psychopath. Simply because if they cast a pretty enough lady in the part the audience is most likely to forgive a whole lot before they start wondering why the guy keeps chasing after her. In the case of Hitch, Eva Mendes is very pretty so the expectation is that we'll forgive a whole lot of her actions.
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