Romance -- A Key Component of The Comedy（在线收听）

Romance -- A Key Component of The Comedy

浪漫·爱情·喜剧

观点一：就让爱情进行到底！

I think what really ¹⁾defines a romantic comedy is that it's a comedy in which the central ²⁾conflict, whatever it is, is based in a romantic relationship. Meaning, many comedies have romances in them. But the question the movie's asking is not about the couple. A romantic comedy asks, "Will these two people become a couple?"

爱情喜剧片说到底就是喜剧，不管怎么样，冲突的重点都要摆在恋爱双方之间，即喜剧与爱情要融为一体。电影并非要探讨情侣本人，而是“有情人能否终成眷属？”

观点二：爱情与欢乐水乳交融，岂能缺一！

Romance which is light, which is about enjoyment of love, tends to be within the comic because that although comedy can be about the battle of the sexes, and can be about problems which are keeping lovers apart, comedy is also nice as it were... laughter and having fun is part of romance.

爱情片是轻松愉快的，表现的是爱的情景，爱情融合在喜剧中，因为喜剧就算说的是两性斗争或者情侣分手的问题，也能自始自终给我们带来欢乐。欢乐是爱情片的一部分。

观点三：女性终于可以撑起“半边天”啦！

In the 30's and 40's you have such a wonderful series of romantic movies because women were really ³⁾feeling their oats and moving into the job market, and you had a lot of very, very strong, tough, heroines out in the world and they were in the movies, too.

30、40年代出现了一系列优秀的爱情片，因为妇女在当时开始崭露头角，纷纷外出工作，社会上出现了许多硬朗的模范女性，电影中亦是如此。

观点四：“哇，我梦中的白马王子！”“哦，我梦中的白雪公主！”“要是能和他（她）谈上一把恋爱，不知会是什么滋味？？？”

There are these kind of standard moves that get observed: after there's a set-up, there's what we call a "cute meet" or a "meet cute", meaning some ⁴⁾distinctive way that these people come together, ahh, which in my mind is usually ⁵⁾reflective of a ⁶⁾dynamic relationship. At the core, people who go to romantic comedies, you're ⁷⁾preaching to the converted more often than that. These are people who believe in love. And they believe in romance, and that means ⁸⁾unattached as well as attached. I might even say more likely you've got a lot of people who are going to these movies to have that experience to enjoy ⁹⁾vicariously what it's like to fall in love and to meet the perfect someone.

据观察，爱情片有这些通用模式：在交代了背景后，主角就在机缘巧合下邂逅，即他们在特定情景中走到一起来，我认为这很反映出男女关系中动人的一面。观看爱情喜剧片的人通常都是爱情喜剧迷，他们相信爱情，相信浪漫，无论是单身的也好，还是已婚的也罢，他们都能够从爱情喜剧中找到共鸣。我倾向于认为，许多去看爱情喜剧片的观众都想进入角色，去经历并享受坠入爱河和遇上真命天子时的不同感受。

注释：

1) define [di5fain] v. 定义，详细说明

2) conflict [5kCnflikt] n. 冲突，斗争

3) feeling their oats 感到精神饱满

4) distinctive [dis5tiNktiv] a. 有特色的，与众不同的

5) reflective [ri5flektiv] a. 沉思的

6) dynamic [dai5nAmik] a. 动力的

7) preach [pri:tF] v. 宣扬，鼓吹 preach to the converted 对人们宣传他们早已持有的观点

8) unattached [5QnE5tAtFt] a. 独立的

9) vicariously [vai5kZEriEsli] ad. 有同感地，间接感受到地