Four Criteria of a Great Romance Movie

Generally, people tend to watch movies to escape reality and romantic ones just do that for you. It offers you to savor your teenage dream on screen for a short time period. People seem to get inspired by this particular genre of movies.

"So it's not gonna be easy. It's gonna be really hard. We're gonna have to work at this every day, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, forever, you and me, every day..."

—Noah Calhoun, the Notebook

A timeless love proposal from an ageless romantic film that can still stir you every time you watch the film. Typically, a prominent movie depends on its storyline, actors, cinematography, soundtracks, and editing and romantic movies are yet no difference. Various kinds of romantic tales are grown famous and great ones often echo for many years for its specific criteria.

Good story

That one movie or two you remember your whole life contains a terrific and unique storyline. A film without a proper story is a film without a motive. The movie revolves around a tale and generates within the storyline. As Alfred Hitchcock stated -

"To make a great film you need three things: the script, the script and the script."

A genuine script makes a film eternal. There's nothing more magical than portraying a stellar script on screen. It will never go unnoticed.

Good Actors/Good Cinematography

An actor makes us believe that he/she is going through whatever the preferred character is going through on a silver screen and this certainly narrows down the parameters of a good actor. An actor is a good one if he can be emotionally naked, be surprising all the time and show his vulnerability. An actor is a medium which though a character is being illustrated, a sketch of imagination molds into a form of visual painting. An actor seems genuine when he is raw, honest and can be brutal from time to time in a sense of displaying. He can't be good if he's faking an emotion like it's not his own. It will definitely not engage the audience in a profound manner.

Caleb Deschanel, the oscar-nominated cinematographer once said, "More so than going out and shooting a beautiful sunrise or some incredible image, some things that I shoot that are not very interesting embody a certain emotion that is really powerful in the context of the film". Cinematography is often mistaken as by beautiful and astonishing pictures put together, rather it is pure and creative visuals inventively reinforced. In the underrated romantic comedies like in Mystic Pizza, Tim Suhrstedt, in The Rebound, Jonathan Freeman, in Timer, Harris Charalambous did some astounding job and those remain classics till date. Cinematographers are like the second line of direction. They are the ones who fabricate realism and use subtleties to perform a creative narration.

Avoiding clichés

First and foremost, you need to have an original idea and storyline with a trusted set of operators. Your film should not be so-called 'inspired'. You can have a likable notion but need to have original chemistry between the n couple. You may create love and despair in the film but end but surely want to recite a one-time, raw and blunt chronicle. Novelist Martin Amis once quoted that a writer is a 'war against cliché'. You may always landscape the previous famous ones as they already made chemistry worth remembering but be delicate and steer clear of lure and temptation of year-old clichés like a guy always have been persuasive in a typical romantic movie. It's not genuine, right? As a result, the movie does not appeal that much to the audience. Another foolish cliché about romantic movies is that two people barely know each other and on the first glance they fall in love, is it a joke? There are many others like why can't someone be natural when he/she has fallen in love and always have to be possessive around the other person? Also, hating each other before love appears, cheating justifies to be with brides running away at the very last moment are infamous aboriginal and tired ideas that give the audience headache and heartache both.

Excellent movie song

"My heart will go on" by Celine Dion from the movie Titanic certainly enhanced the commercial angle and the audience gets overwhelmed with the experience of romance. So, a proper soundtrack with a perfect scene is still in the business. Also, to broaden the scenario, background scores often brighten the crisp dialogues and create a mesmerizing visual of romance in the mind of the watcher.

Above all ideally, cook a staggering and bewildering feature film both commercially and critically blockbuster.