Do We Ever Really Care Who Lived In Our...
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.it's not just movies; plays and books before that depict men and women getting together (possibly because men and women do get together, so it's an obvious topic). Shakespeare's plays, not counting his histories, are comedies, which end in marriage and the opportunity for good people to continue their genetic line, and tragedies, in which bad (or at least flawed) people die without children. We may in fact identify with Shakespeare's tragic characters as much as with his romantic leads, because he's careful to make them human.
But to answer your question: I imagine we all need reassurance that the human race will continue. If even movie stars can't find a girl/boy, what hope is there for the rest of us? I think most of us would find that very depressing.
Incidentally, why on earth would I become violent in real life if, say, a friend got together with the girl/boy he/she fancied? Do you really?
We root for the man to get the girl, as hollywood makes us identify with the man. Partly we want to be the man (good looking, funny or flash) and partly he has those faults that tricks us into empathy with the character - a crap example being Tom Cruise (irritating bloke actually) good looking, flies jet fighters, but is "dangerous" (as the Ice Man says). It does not always work if he does not have the convincing character flaws which we can identify with. Hence, some men cant stand Brad Pitt, in his worse films (he rocks in fight club - but its not a romance)
However, I disagree that this is a modern phenomenon. Shakespeare's plays are full of this stuff, as were Greek dramas.
On a deeper level, we are social animals, with a structured society. Couples often matchmake and so there is some pleasure in insuring the continuity in the troop by see some other suceed in the love game.
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