Romance cliche's

• Romance films generally appeal to a female audience, this being as females often want their life to be like the chick flicks a lot of women watch. These romance films always have lots of typical cliche's but the fans of this particular genre love these and sometimes is the reason they watch them.

• In the typical romantic comedy, the film is designed to relate to the audience, and make the audience able to understand fully what the character is going through during the film. By doing this the watcher of the film may feel more involved in the film, and sometimes more like it was made for them. One of the first most important cliche in romantic films is the happy ending. In a wide majority of films, there is a happy ending where the male/female gets the person they want and they live happily ever after, even if this in most real life situations, is not the case. 

  

• In nearly every romantic film there is the cliche, 'will they, won't they?' moments. These are effective as they en captivate the audience, and make them want to continue watching the film to find out if they will get together or if they won't live happily ever after. Also it keeps the audience guessing about what is going to happen between the two main characters and if they will meet or not.

• In a lot of ROM coms' there is the faithful 'sidekick' who is mostly the best friend, yet often very hopeless. Having a sidekick is an effective cliche as people want to see the sidekick who always sticks by the girl/boy, and who sometimes turns out to be in love with the other person but won't say anything because they are in that 'best friend/friend' category. They also often make the audience laugh as they are so useless.

• In the majority of films there are love rivals, who interest the audience as they want to see who the girl ends up with in the film, and who is the better choice in the two rivals, and what they are willing to do to end up with the girl. In most cliche moments there is a confrontation, and an unexpected result of who they girl chooses. It is always the unobvious choice.

• Also the majority of the time 'Mr Right' finds the girl initially annoying, and does not want to know. The is effective as the audience encourage her to pursue Mr right, and end up with him as he is the best choice and most of the time very good looking. 

• There is also dramatic irony most of the time. This is effective as us, the audience know he's a wrong 'un, and know something that the characters in the film don't, so we feel more involved in the film and want the character to know what we know before it is too late.

• There is also a subordinate father and pushy mother in most films. The pushy mother is usually the root of the problems caused for the character, yet often doesn't believe she is, but instead believes that she is helping and doing the best for her daughter. For example pushing her daughter to get married or break up with her boyfriend or something.

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   In the film 'The Holiday' many cliche moments are all throughout. The audience of the film watches it for this reason. At the start of the film there is the typical romantic music, and the common beautiful surroundings and couple dancing. Further into the first scene you are introduced to 'Mr wrong' who ends up breaking up with his girlfriend. Party going against the cliche, the best friend is an old man, compared to one the same age. Fitting in with the cliche he is still the girl's best friend, but not the hopeless kind, instead helpful. There is also the woman talking over the scene playing talking about her hopeless love life, with the man that she was once with, but is still madly in love with. This is a cliche moment as most romantic films have a girl who is dreaming about being with a man, even if he is Mr wrong. The other friend that is introduced the mouthy but supportive best friend, who doesn't agree with her love of Mr right.
  
  Going against the romantic cliche's there is the postmodern film 500 days of summer, this goes against the stereotypical conventions of a classic romantic comedy such as Nottinghill.