Home -> Law Blog Directory -> Legal Commentary Blogs -> The Buck Stops Here

Legal Commentary

: The Buck Stops Here

The Decline of Romantic Comedies

By Stuart Buck

In an article that I think is supposed to be a review of some Matthew McConaughey movie, A.O. Scott of the New York Times makes the case that romantic comedies were better-written back in the days of censorship: The marriage plot, after all, is one of the oldest in literature, flourishing in Roman comedy, in the plays of Shakespeare and Molière and in the novels of Jane Austen. More to the point, the obstacle-strewn road to discovered or recovered bliss was heavily traveled in the old studio days, from the screwball comedies of the 1930s and ?40s to their loopy Technicolor descendants of the late ?50s and early ?60s.Our parents and grandparents had Rock Hudson and Doris Day ? such delicious subtext! such amazing office furniture! ? or Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Buck Stops Here on February 03, 2008 (boomark / email).