From back in the day with Bill Martell to the current ScriptShadow to others, they maintain that in a romance, in order to have a couple fall for each other, you can't just all of a sudden announce, "They're in love." You have to show why and how they're falling for each other. The most common is their SHARING of SOMETHING -- maybe a love for the same music or having the same career aspiration (ala La La Land) or going through the same adventure together.
But I just saw Salmon Fishing in the Yemen with Emily Blunt and Ewan McGregor made back in 2011, I think. Written by the talented Simon Beaufoy, the couple ended up together at the end when during the movie, I didn't see that they had anything in common. They were more opposites then anything else, yet according to those "experts," the "opposites attract" premise" for people falling in love doesn't work in movies. Other than a couple of loving/lustful glances by Ewan to Emily, and his willingness to lend a sympathetic ear to her grief of her boyfriend soldier MIA, I didn't see much a connection between the two. Could be wrong, of course.
I remember other movies where people with no similar interests wound up together at the end of the film.
So, what's your opinion on what is needed to show a couple falling for each other in a film?
But I just saw Salmon Fishing in the Yemen with Emily Blunt and Ewan McGregor made back in 2011, I think. Written by the talented Simon Beaufoy, the couple ended up together at the end when during the movie, I didn't see that they had anything in common. They were more opposites then anything else, yet according to those "experts," the "opposites attract" premise" for people falling in love doesn't work in movies. Other than a couple of loving/lustful glances by Ewan to Emily, and his willingness to lend a sympathetic ear to her grief of her boyfriend soldier MIA, I didn't see much a connection between the two. Could be wrong, of course.
I remember other movies where people with no similar interests wound up together at the end of the film.
So, what's your opinion on what is needed to show a couple falling for each other in a film?
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