I love watching romance movies, and if you set them at Christmas time, I find them even harder to resist. They don't have to have enormous decor and clothing budgets to bring green and red and sparkle together in a way that is irresistible! My favourite ones have a little (but not too much) magic. Like a time traveling suitor brought by a magic clock in A Timeless Christmas. Or a man name Nick and a red truck that seem to work on wishes in A Cheerful Christmas.
Sometimes, however, I am amazed at how bad the writing is, and how blatant another film can be plagerized. In other problems, why do low level employees live in mansions? Why do people always go to small town for Christmas? Conveniently leave their high paying jobs for an extended holiday, and a life change.
Today, for example, while I was frying latkes, I watched a low budget, completely ridiculous version of Love, Actually called A Christmas Exchange. It was very sweet, but there were no memorable lines and the plotlines were pretty obviously copied. How do they get away with copyright law?
If the mythology is to believed, successful lucrative careers in big cities are bad. Nearly bankrupt small town business and farming is the way to go! You don't need more than an instant to fall in love. The worst start to a movie is to be married, but you can be dating someone actively when you meet "the one". And there will be "the one". No loving the one you are with. Once lovestruck, there is no turning back.
Like my stories, librarians and writers and editors are everywhere! So are handsome men and women!
On the other hand, maybe there is still some room out there for less successful writers such as myself!
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