The Holiday
This includes the cliches such as the lovable supportive friend, who is there at the main characters side. She starts the simple cliche that most films start and end with in the following pattern. The woman falls in love with a man who isn't interested in her back. He is meant to be considered as the 'catatonic wasp', who at all costs doesn't even remotly consider her affections. The music at the beginning signals that she is interested but the audiance fall for the simple cliche of him being the wrong guy while the right one is waiting for her. The main character is depressed because she can't find love, also a cliche.
10 Things I Hate About You
The popular girls in the sports car is how the scene for the film starts, starting the cliche that they are the girls you are supposed to hate. They stop at the traffic lights to sneer at the girl alone in another less interesting car. This shows rivalry, also another cliche in teenage movies. You have shots of the two main characters who are different from the others in school, and one of the people are new to the school. He is interviewed by the teacher who is inconsiderate and over exagerated, a cliche being that he is the one you feel sorry for. As this is happening the other girl is walking around all depressed for she has no friends to be with. These create the cliches all through the film.
Notting Hill
The music in the background starts this film, mood music to represent the first main character, a woman, who is a famous movie star on the catwalk. About a minute of the movie is just clips of her getting her picture taken and her smiling in slow motion, a cliche to tell the viewer that she is the one he is going to be with. You next see the recluse of a man who lives in Notting Hill as a bookseller, and the cliche of being left by his wife for another man. This leaves him alone and vulnerable, and the viewer already knows that he is meant to end up with her. You have the friend of the male lead role who is the lovable slob who can do nothing wrong, a cliche that attracts and connects with the reader.
Forgetting Sarah Marshall
A slow start to the film as it includes all the pictures of the woman and man in their house and how they are the lovable couple, the man is a slob whilst the woman is a famous and beautiful actress. It is a cliche to know that this woman is going to be 'Mrs Wrong' and that this relashionship will not continue. We know this because we also get a clip of the other man who is famous and attractive and it is obvious to the viewer that the woman (sarah marshall) is going to leave the lovable man at the beginning for this horrible but famous man. The cliche is that we know before we even see someone else that he is going to find love elsewhere.
500 Days of Summer
500 days of summer contains the music that puts you in the mood and verifys that it is a love film, the cliche being in the speech that is at the beginning. This film is different from the others however as it seems as if they are mocking the idea of cliche by having the supportive friend as an eight year old girl, instead of the typical notion that the lovable slob would be a fat man. This adds curiosity to the whole film and gets viewers to carry on watching.
The romace cliche doesn't particularly appeal to me but it was good to analyse to understand the difference between this particualr cliche to others that include horror and action. I wasn't interested in this as my particualr interests aren't romances.
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