10 Most Over-Used Romantic Comedy Plot-Points

By Gareth Howie /

6. The 'Padding Out'

Boy and Girl will invariably fall in love with one another but deny it for the longest possible time because a movie studio€™s lack of respect for a cinema going audience does not extend to charging them full ticket price for what would only amount to a ten minute fucking movie! ... This is your 'montage moment'! If you're a REALLY bad romantic comedy but you've got enough money in the budget to license more then one pop or R&B song then you'll have more than one "falling in love" montage to pad out your running time. And you'll have your montages in quick succession of each other too. However, it has got to be explained with crayoned diagrams and finger-puppets to all screenwriters and directors of modern romantic comedies that, just because you're covering a period of time with your romantic montages, this does not also equal characterisation.