Romeo and Juliet to Before Sunrise, Before Sunset (the twin movies) all had the strongest of loves but no ever after story..
I had this thought today and I realized this is because it makes business sense. Let me try to explain.
Most of the people interested in watching / reading these stories are countless multitudes of hopeless romantics as against the few (if at all) have a happily ever after life. So simply enough, target the market segment that will pay better.
As an afterthought probably the strongest of the bonds are those that could not be for a long time (the ever in the above phrase) but those that lived lifetimes while it lasted.. It probably is the "in spite of" that makes the story great but then again it’s a hopeless romantic who is speaking so I cannot make very objective judgement.
Let me know what you guys think Is it just because its best for business or are these stories as great as they are made out to be?
bandhu - romantic khayalaat ? Badhiya .... good progress :D
ReplyDeletebhaiyya..its simple..movies is just for business and they will target the hen that lays golden eggs and obviously will not kill it in one shot..they keep hatching every cut :)
ReplyDeleteI dont know if I am right but I feel that you might well be wrong ;) Yes its about business sense when you talk why people love to narrate or make a movie which has lots of variety in it. Its more about what one person would like to watch than the target market segment. Even the happily living couples would not go and watch anything if its not interesting so its more about consumer behaviour than targeting any particular market segment. Just think which class would you ever to sit through a) a class which keeps on telling you that life is great or b) that relates tales of how people have made their life great in the face of a storm. :)
ReplyDelete@Raghuram: This is the most antiromantic that it can get.
ReplyDelete@Nitesh: So business it is!
@Cipher: Even if I were to look at your logic the case b)is not what most tragedies talk about. Unfulfilled hopes of love and the fact that it did not matter that they were unfulfilled.
Well, this thought has had been used both ways as in great love stories never end happily and then as you put it, happy endings could never make a good love story ..... On that thought, the magic of a love story lasts till it becomes mundane . If Romeo had married Juliet and lived a long life, there would be no mystery around there love , there love would be as common as that of another married couple. People keep thinking about untold things .....
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