Research Paper on:
Hollywood Then and Now and Love's Changing Styles

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especially evident in the romantic comedies; the romance on the big screen of yesteryear was something completely different from what the audiences of today are seeing. This paper will  explain those differences and how the developments of love relationships in the old-style Hollywood romantic comedies are different from those of today. THE OLDIES BUT GOODIES Who can forget  the sizzling chemistry on the silver screen between Humphrey Bogart and Kathryn Hepburn? Many of the old romantic comedies are classics, never to be forgotten and watched again and  again by old and young alike. But this type of film is passe, even though it is still enjoyed by many. The romantic comedies of today are completely  different in regards to the way the love relationships develop between the leading actors. Of course the world has changed, and technology has helped create faster lives that we live  in a completely different way from the days of Bogey and Hepburn. Because of this the film noire has changed as well, keeping up pace with the lifestyle that  is so common in todays world. As author James Dowd (549) explains it, todays romantic comedies are "different from the romantic comedies of the 1940s such as Pat and Mike  or Adams Rib, or the many films in the screwball genre. Such movies were invariably satirical, using the manners and foibles of men, the rich and other privileged groups as  their comical target". Likewise, while these were called romantic movies, these were romance in the most chaste sense of the word. Never did we see the leading actors falling  into bed together, to make mad passionate love. Instead, the romance was more genteel and was implied rather than shown in more than life-size and full color on the