Turns out we owe those dick jokes a lot. Romantic comedies are as old as Hollywood itself. People have always loved watching people fall in love, but the genre ebbs and flows in its popularity. Sometimes, when you have a few in a row that seems to falter, studios can waver on whether or not they are appropriate bets. While these comedies were big in the 90s, in the early 2000s they began to flop. People were worried that the traditional romantic comedy would disappear from the landscape. Then the dick jokes came. The early 2000s saw an incredible rise in the raunch-com, comedy films that prioritized blue dialogue, gross humor, and the deconstruction of male character archetypes to provide a different look at life and love. Check out the video from The Take below. Read More...
Published By: NoFilmSchool - Friday, 23 July, 2021