Do Americans Make Fun of Romance? (RR Insider 6 - Team Chat!)

This is long and mostly unscripted. But it's what we're like in our RR meeting. Go to Youtube for working timestamps/chapters/comments: https://youtu.be/DMPIJmnnGSo

00:00 How we all ended up being within walking distance from each other, completely by accident.

11:19 Why is there very little real romance in Western audience movies, shows, and games, when it sells SO many books?

13:30 Sylvia's answer, pt 1 "you can't find guy actors both hot AND emotionally intelligent enough"

16:50 Raythe hates how the 50 Shades actors were too cool for romance and made fun of the author and material!

20:00 Not only is it hard to find a male lead, but they don't make actors feel cool for being a romantic lead bc it's "unserious shlock"

20:50 Kat thinks it's hard to translate a purely emotional plot to a screen, there aren't any bombs or shooting to keep a goldfish audience's attention. Non-US audiences are different.

21:50 Kdramas and non-Western audiences are different

23:00 Sylvia talks about Turkic romances and non-sanitized romance! (we go WTF is that)

26:55 But Bridgerton!

27:26 Straight men probably have trouble producing this material, they have disdain for it. You have to love the material to create something good.

28:38 Kat: But men haven't been "allowed" to express emotions like being a romantic. So... how will they open themselves up by championing a whole film? People as open about romance as Edward are rare.

29:55 Sylvia says, male romance authors are becoming more common.

31:00 Why is wanting to be James Bond any less "babyish" than wanting to be a fairy tale romantic prince?

Next time, we talk about DARK FANTASIES, and enjoying reading something that you're not "supposed to" like...