In my chosen article, Buying Me Love: 1980’s Class-Clash Teen Romances, there is most certainly formulas used throughout the films. The article discusses how teen relationships in movie films initiate, maintain, and challenge weather the couples stay together or not. While each movie is a little different in its own way the basic concept is a young girl and boy forming a romantic relationship but there is something wedging in between their relationship such as social class differences as my article points out. The movies give numerous examples of family implications and social group differences where the families see that it is best fit for the two teenagers to not date each other.
During these types of movies, for example The Notebook, where Allie’s mother hid the letters Noah wrote her for an entire year while he was in war. Years later Allie found out about her long lost love writing all those years ago, while the entire time she thought he had moved on. As the movie was a constant decision of who Allie was going to spend her life with, the man she was currently engaged to that could provide her with the social class lifestyle her mother wanted for her or to go back to Noah who she has true love with.
The formula that I see during all of the teen romance movie’s is that the couple spend the majority of the movie either trying to convince the parents to let them date or they will continue sneaking around to see each other until the parents give in and accept the relationship. I think that this is a good formula for the type of audience the filmmakers are trying to attract. I feel that each genre of movies have their own formulas as to what works best for them. Teen romance movies will live on forever along with the formulas used to make them so successful.
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