Let's count the cliches!!
1: SAUCY BLACK WOMAN, FRIEND OF THE PROTAGONIST.
Add the rest, I don't feel like.
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MovieChat Forums > Nights in Rodanthe (2008) Discussion > Let's count the cliches!!
the girl wore female clothes, the male wore male clothes.
Sand on the beach.
They live in houses.
Richard Gere being a straight character
After the movie, the credits rolled
I think, TCT, that you are indirectly referring to the fact that all movies rely on certain building-blocks, to let the film-makers get on with the story without having to develop things from scratch. And we, the audience, rely on those same cliches to let us navigate the characters without needing the whole Gone With the Wind for every movie.
And that lets us focus on plot and character of the stars.
They're all powered by electricity, too. And popcorn in every theatre.
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Down In Front!
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The teenage girl was a 'rebel' who 'hated her mom'.
The first kiss (something frightening happens, she gets too close to him and they suddenly kiss).
Spoilers ahead!!
-one of the two romantic characters is an 'artist'
-the workaholic Dr. who can't see beyond the 'the job'
-sappy letters are written
-one of the lovers dies tragically
It did have many cliches, but I learned many movies do. There are very little films that I have seen where it's very 'original'. I did enjoy it though.
sharea few spoilers...
man rescues woman from harm, then they 'make love'
the end scene that gives one of the main characters hope
men are cheats
women who marry men and have a family lose themselves
he drives away, but gets out of the car and runs toward her, one last hug
old music is cool, as long as it is an lp
storms always makes the woman want to cuddle with a man :)
The patient's screaming disturbing me, performed removal of vocal chords. ~Zombie Holocaust
Man is haunted by a tragedy in his past that the woman helps him overcome.
Woman in a struggling marriage meets a mysterious stranger and has an affair which makes her happy about life again.
After falling in love, montage of letters being sent between lovers.
Woman finds final letter from man after he has died.
Unlikely event happens at the end of the movie to remind her of him ("The horses never come out this far...")
"I'm a lead farmer, maggot farmer!" (Tropic Thunder edited for TV)
Hey Await4 & GenHarts, follow the thread, eh? Let's count...
Horrible street band playing whitebread jazz, while people somehow dance to it.
Dialogue between pickup-truck-yokel ScottGlenn, and Doctor Gere:
"My wife is day-udd."
"There's no one to blame, it happens to one in 50,000."
"Is that what your lawyers told you to say?" duhhh
The whole movie was one big cliche. That's what made it so funny.
It's all been done before, and much better.