A story in the Love genre focuses on the need for connection in a variety of forms, including desire, commitment, and intimacy, allowing readers to identify with the lovers as protagonists and respond to the fulfillment of the couple’s fate on the hate-love spectrum with a feeling of romance.
The underlying question in every Love story is: How do we navigate the emotional minefield that is love? How can we attract a mate, avoid heartbreak, and maintain a lasting relationship through a lifetime?
The Four Core Framework of the Performance Genre 1. Core Need → Connection 2. Core Value → Hate to Love 3. Core Emotion → Romance 4. Core Event → Proof of Love
Love Genre Sub-genres include:
OBSESSION (Psychological Driver: Desire) In the Obsession Love Story one of the lovers has such a shallow but intoxicating passion for the other that the Life/Death value comes into play. Obsession Love Stories are cautionary. They don’t progress beyond the Desire value, and usually end in tragedy. The Great Gatsby, Damage, Romeo and Juliet
COURTSHIP (Psychological Driver: Commitment) The bread and butter of Love Story, Courtship concerns all of the romantic rituals we go through in order to find a mate, and typically ends in “happily ever after” with Commitment, and with Intimacy assured. The Courtship Love Story is prescriptive. Pride and Prejudice, Brokeback Mountain, An Affair to Remember (1957)
MARRIAGE (Psychological Driver: Intimacy) The Marriage story concerns a committed relationship that certainly had early stages of passion and is now at a crossroads. This story takes love into realistic realms and may have a negative inciting incident such as betrayal. There is an ironic win-but-lose, lose-but-win ending. The Marriage Love Story may be either prescriptive or cautionary. Marriage Story (2019), War of the Roses (1989), Kramer vs Kramer (1979), The Corrections
0:41 - Underlying Question in Every Love Story 1:07 - Core Need → Connection 1:36 - Core Value → Hate to Love 2:01 - Theme / Controlling Idea of Love Story 2:12 - Core Emotion → Romance 2:34 - Core Event → Proof of Love Scene 2:51 - Conventions of Love Story 5:09 - Obligatory Moments of Love Story 6:05 - Sub-Genres of Love Story
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