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Alli Parker
Guest2015
DZ-22: Romantic Comedy, Actually
How can studying RomCom clichés teach us to subvert them?
Listen if you're writing a romcom and want to understand what makes this gentre tick.
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With Stu busy working on Hollywood blockbusters, Chas is joined by Alli Parker (script department on Aussie TV series and former co-ordinator of European #scriptchat) to unpick successful romcoms to see if they can illuminate a path for writers working in this struggling genre. Cheap to produce and potentially highly lucrative, Chas and Alli look at RomCom’s conventions to see what it may take to reinvigorate this genre… →
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AI✦The episode unpacks what audiences expect from a romcom and how meeting--or deliberately violating--that contract determines whether a script lands or falls flat.✦
Films:
When Harry Met Sally... (1989)
, (500) Days of Summer (2009)
, The Proposal (2009)
, Notting Hill (1999)