So I'm a writer who's trying to write his first real fictional story (i.e. not sci-fi or fantasy ), and I happen to be a romantic. Through the few movies and stories that I've seen of this sort of thing, I find that I love rebellious romances: the one where one or both characters' parents don't approve, or in some respect the older generation "doesn't get it" or "gets in the way" (and I mean this in a serious, legitimate counterculture-style way; I can't stand nonsense teenage rebellion like you see in Freaky Friday and the like ). The best example of this is first of all is Franco Zeffirelli's 1968 film of Romeo and Juliet, a masterpiece of an adaptation. But what really got me going on this kick was Super 8 (SPOILERS FOLLOW): there's a scene when the main boy and girl are together in his room watching a video on the boy's film projector after having dealt with rejection by both fathers of the respective characters. While watching this scene, in my mind as clear as if spoken aloud, I said to myself, "Why don't they just run away?" See in my mind that would've been the ultimate happy ending: they'd run away, symbolically rejecting the corrupt world of their fathers, free from the oppressive status quo type thing.(SPOILERS END HERE) Suffice it to say, no one succeeds in running away in either of these films. Anyone know one where they do? Might help me with the story I wanna write, in which said wistful and idealistic lovers live their dream by escaping.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/StarCrossedLovers A decent amount of the stuff listed there seems to count.
I'm not looking for star-crossed lovers though, I'm looking for the ones who actually succeed. I'll check it out though. Edit: Although some of the other tropes this one links to are giving me some interesting results...thanks for this, will look through it.
Try...Blade Runner (Director's Cut) 1989 with Harrison Ford in it. Oh you said not sci-fi and romance, nevermind. But what was wrong with Baz Luhrmann's adaptation of Romeo and Juliet? "Do you dare bite your thumb at me, sir?" "Yes I do indeed bite my thumb at you," *gas station explodes* Go in the direction of Baz Luhrmann. Brilliant Australian director has movies like Romeo & Juliet, Australia and Moulin Rouge. The romances don't succeed but it could be a starting point.