Wednesday, August 04, 2021
I've just instituted ...
... a new label: "20th-century-chick-flicks1". I thought of it while fixing the post for An Affair to Remember. It's meant to highlight the romantic situation where two "meant for each other" partners come together, separate and come together, finally, "forever", or, you know, at least for what they think is forever.
I know. It would seem, without much thought, that every romance, made in the 20th or the 21st century would fit this category. Not so. Think The Heiress, for instance. I'm sure there are more, and I probably have some of them.
At any rate, in the first few minutes of writing this post, I've found four in my collection that would fit this category. I'm sure there are more.
This also doesn't mean that these movies aren't being made in the 21st century. They most certainly are. I, though, became aware of them, and ambivalent about them, in the 20th century, hence the particularity of the label. It'll be interesting (for me) to see what other movies I label as "20th-century-chick-flicks1". In fact, I might search out a few, right now.
As a reminder to myself, perhaps I should also search to see if anyone has done any research on types of romance movies, these in particular.
Stay tuned.
Well, after an initial survey, I discovered 14 movies that fit this category, and I haven't finished discovering them all, so, the category, having previously been merely "20th-century-chick-flicks", is now "20th-century-chick-flicks1", or blah-blah2, etc., in anticipation that I'll find, and probably continue to acquire, way more than I suspected.
Back to our scheduled programming.
