No, he's not right. It's one thing to compete with 25-year-old leading men, which doesn't make sense, but discounting romantic leads after 50 is silly. He was 53 when he married Amal. The thing that is getting tired is the gigantic age gaps between leading men and their leading ladies: 70-year-old leading men and 30-year-old leading ladi…
No, he's not right. It's one thing to compete with 25-year-old leading men, which doesn't make sense, but discounting romantic leads after 50 is silly. He was 53 when he married Amal. The thing that is getting tired is the gigantic age gaps between leading men and their leading ladies: 70-year-old leading men and 30-year-old leading ladies. But who would be mad at a Rom Com, or Romantic movie starring George Clooney and Halle Berry, or Brad Pitt and Selma Hayek? Just saying...
Your comment makes me think of *It's Complicated* (2009), in which Meryl Streep (59) plays a 50-something woman who sleeps with her married ex-husband (played by Alec Baldwin) and ultimately pursues a relationship with Steve Martin (64). The pairing makes sense.
Baldwin is actually 50 when he played the role, but he looked and was playing much older.
Silvia, I agree with you. Take a look at Hollywood in the last 10 years. Romantic comedies have dried up. I looked on a Google list, and it literally peaked in 2014 and then the major studios decided to stop. I can only guess this is when the studios started launching their own streaming platforms and releasing low-to-mid budget dramas and comedies on them. Plus, no actors today in their 20s ARE doing romantic comedies. The young women today are clearly not interested in playing romantic or even attracted to men in real life and the pretty boy young men come across as effeminate.
But there is ample space in the cinema for witty, playful, adventurous and charming romantic movies for 30-60s something people. To take a bunch of actors to a Mediterranean or Caribbean country and have them get into silly scenes, mishaps, gentle flirting, playfights and dressing up for dinners and balls, sounds like the easiest thing ever. Producers need to look at Indian movies as they have never stopped showing singing, romance and dressing up in their movies.
No, he's not right. It's one thing to compete with 25-year-old leading men, which doesn't make sense, but discounting romantic leads after 50 is silly. He was 53 when he married Amal. The thing that is getting tired is the gigantic age gaps between leading men and their leading ladies: 70-year-old leading men and 30-year-old leading ladies. But who would be mad at a Rom Com, or Romantic movie starring George Clooney and Halle Berry, or Brad Pitt and Selma Hayek? Just saying...
Thank you for this piece.
Your comment makes me think of *It's Complicated* (2009), in which Meryl Streep (59) plays a 50-something woman who sleeps with her married ex-husband (played by Alec Baldwin) and ultimately pursues a relationship with Steve Martin (64). The pairing makes sense.
Baldwin is actually 50 when he played the role, but he looked and was playing much older.
It's a rom-com about 50-60 year olds.
Also, Harold and Maude isn't on the list:).
Silvia, I agree with you. Take a look at Hollywood in the last 10 years. Romantic comedies have dried up. I looked on a Google list, and it literally peaked in 2014 and then the major studios decided to stop. I can only guess this is when the studios started launching their own streaming platforms and releasing low-to-mid budget dramas and comedies on them. Plus, no actors today in their 20s ARE doing romantic comedies. The young women today are clearly not interested in playing romantic or even attracted to men in real life and the pretty boy young men come across as effeminate.
But there is ample space in the cinema for witty, playful, adventurous and charming romantic movies for 30-60s something people. To take a bunch of actors to a Mediterranean or Caribbean country and have them get into silly scenes, mishaps, gentle flirting, playfights and dressing up for dinners and balls, sounds like the easiest thing ever. Producers need to look at Indian movies as they have never stopped showing singing, romance and dressing up in their movies.