With all that said now, here’s the list of really good romantic movies where best friends fall in love. Friends eventually falling in love have set the premises of several iconic love films in the latter half of the 20th century, proving to be a vital formulaic addition to the romantic-comedy genre. It was not long before that this modernized depiction of love in the 20th century found its way to the up and coming art form of the times - cinema. More often than not, it was therefore seen that a friendship or familiarity between the participants became a prerequisite for love to bloom. Love was no longer an instinct but a more conscious decision of the beholder. As the world ushered into an era with more calculative understanding, the definition of love, too, changed in the process. Some of the highest grossing, most iconic American films such as ‘Gone With the Wind’, ‘Casablanca’, ‘Titanic’ have, hence, essentially been love stories.Īs opposed to the outdated ‘romantic’ acceptance of the ‘love at first sight’ phenomenon, a more pragmatic, rational concept of love developed in art, post the ‘Industrial Revolution’.
Unrequited love, and its eventual reciprocation has thus become a go-to blockbuster formula for Hollywood studios since their inception. More specifically, romantic love complicates the already murky emotion even further with the additional physical dynamic.
Now, if I try taking the modernist stance that love doesn’t necessarily need to be eternal, I risk offending the “Romantics’, while a rigid, ‘love at first sight’, ’till death do us part’ position will enable the mockery of the more pragmatic thinkers.
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