So I started watching Something New (starring Sanaa Lathan) last night and watched a little this morning. I avoided it in the theaters, not because I didn't think it was going to be good, but because I thought it was not going to be anything different.
You can change the elements (black guy/girl + white guy/girl + career/aspirations or dreamers vs. doers, etc.) but the formula is always the same...
a) Characters meet (immediate attraction not required)
b) Overcome initial trepidation to date or have sex than date
c) Moments of happiness accompanied by a montage of sex and dating with a happy and/or upbeat song
d) Conflict - social (friends, family), personal (career) or the whole "this can't work, we're opposites"
e) Separation
f) Reflection accompanied with a montage of alone time with a sad and/or slow song
g) Self-realization that the relationship taught you things you didn't know about yourself or self-realization that friends/family/career doesn't run their life
h) Reconnection
i) Reconciliation
j) Credits
Some movies like to leave a few out or mix and match but that is your basic romantic comedy formula.
I should be embarassed I haven't tried to write one.
Maybe that's why I like The Break-Up so much.
Maybe I'll be wrong about Something New.
But when I paused it this morning, we were at D
Update: I just finished watching. I was right. Thank you, Netflix.
(Thanks Kristy for being my sounding board)
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