Romantic comedy is one of the most popular genres of world cinema. Love in them is beautiful, the heroines are feminine, the heroes are gallant. These films bring a little romance, optimism and good humor to everyday life. In recent decades, many excellent films have been shot in this genre with the participation of wonderful actors, many of whom became famous precisely in romantic roles.
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If we turn to the history of the genre of romantic comedy in world literature, then its creator, perhaps, can be considered the great English playwright William Shakespeare. Films based on his plays are still very popular with a wide variety of audiences. Perhaps the most successful adaptation of Shakespeare's romantic comedy is Kenneth Branagh's film Much Ado About Nothing. It is literally overflowing with joy, sunshine, fun and energy of young performers, the brightest of which are Kenneth Branagh as Benedict and Emma Thompson as Beatrice.
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Another interesting screen version of Shakespeare's comedy is Michael Hoffman's A Midsummer Night's Dream. Since this is quite a typical Hollywood film production, the director relied on numerous special effects and a considerable number of stars, not only in central but also in relatively small roles. Perhaps the main success of the film was a very unusual interpretation of the image of the Basis. In the performance of the subtle and intelligent Kevin Kline, the narcissistic fool suddenly turned into a true romantic, who is wounded by the rudeness of the surrounding life and irresistibly attracted by the romance of the magic forest.
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The Oscar-winning film Shakespeare in Love is a very loose and not very believable interpretation of Shakespeare's biography. However, thanks to the brilliant wit of the genius Tom Stoppard, who invented this funny and at the same time sad, but very romantic story, all the inconsistencies in the storyline quickly cease to be noticed. The role of Shakespeare in the film was played by handsome Joseph Fiennes, but he was overshadowed by two beautiful ladies who were rightfully awarded Oscars for their work - Gwyneth Paltrow (Viola) and Judy Dench (Queen Elizabeth I).
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Another romantic comedy based on a classic plot is Oliver Parker's The Importance of Being Earnest. This is a screen version of the most famous comedy by the witty Oscar Wilde. The main roles in the film were played by brilliant English actors - Colin Firth, Rupert Everett, Frances O'Connor and Judi Dench, as well as American Reese Witherspoon.
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The greatest master of modern romantic comedy is considered to be the British screenwriter, and more recently the director, Richard Curtis. His slightly sad and very light films about how people, one way or another, find their happiness, occupy first places in all ratings of romantic comedies. The main roles in a whole series of films, based on scripts by Richard Curtis, were played by the main heartthrob of the English screen, Hugh Grant. Their tandem (of course, with the participation of other wonderful actors) presented the audience with such unforgettable films as Four Weddings and One Funeral, Notting Hill, The Diary of Bridget Jones and Love Actually.
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Another wonderful romantic story, Enchanted, unfolds in the fairy tale world that has unexpectedly come to modern New York. This is a funny Disney self-parody that tells about how fabulous cartoon characters try to get used to the modern world and, of course, find true love in the finale. The opening of the film was charming Amy Adams in the role of the beautiful and childishly naive Princess Giselle.
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I would like to end this small excursion into the world of romantic comedy with a wonderful film by Woody Allen "Midnight in Paris", the protagonist of which, the young writer Gil Pender (Owen Wilson), unexpectedly falls into the past during night walks in Paris, where he meets his idols - Francis Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Salvador Dali, Luis Buñuel. One of the main roles in the film was played by the true Frenchwoman Marion Cotillard, who three years earlier became famous for her brilliant performance of the role of Edith Piaf in the film Life in a Rose Light.
