The plot of the Romance genre usually follows a certain narrative.
The story is said to begin with a clash between lovers, owing to misunderstanding, rumours they heard about each other, meeting under bad circumstances and prejudice assumptions made by each character. It is not necessary to have the background of the characters, you could just begin with them meeting, perhaps, under bad circumstances. The idea of the film would be to explore the relationship between the two lovers.
The films usually explore several themes of love: Love at first sight, unrequited love, obsessive love, younger/older love, tragic love etc. They usually have to get over obstacles in their relationship;
Finances, physical illness, racial/social class, occupation, psychological restraints or family that threatens to break their union.
If we use the example of
The Notebook.
-The clash between the lovers is Social Class. (which you can see here because of the difference in clothing)
-The obstacles were firstly finances and family that breaks their union, but there is also Allie's physical illness. (Allie gets Dementia, the story of the Notebook is that Noah reads it to her to remind her)
Bibliography:
Deborah Kaplan
Romance Films
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