Storytellers in Hollywood often rely on romantic tropes to keep the story going, but it seems they’ll have to change their ways. According to UCLA’s new study, the younger audience feels romance is too prominent in film and TV, and they’d prefer seeing more content about friendships and platonic relationships. The Center for Scholars & […]
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]]>Storytellers in Hollywood often rely on romantic tropes to keep the story going, but it seems they’ll have to change their ways. According to UCLA’s new study, the younger audience feels romance is too prominent in film and TV, and they’d prefer seeing more content about friendships and platonic relationships.
The Center for Scholars & Storytellers at UCLA recently conducted a Teens & Screens report, and the results were pretty telling. 47.5% of teens and young adults aged 13-24 said that romance and s-x are too prominent in TV shows and movies, with 44.3% saying that romance in media is overused.
The survey also showed that 51.5% of teens and young adults want to see more content focused on friendships and platonic relationships. Many of the respondents also expressed a desire to see themselves represented on screen, with “lives like my own” ranking as the second most popular topic among adolescents.
Dr. Yalda T. Uhls, the co-author of the study who serves as an adjunct professor in UCLA’s psychology department, said that young people are seeking modeling in the art they consume because they’re suffering an epidemic of loneliness.
“While some storytellers use s-x and romance as a shortcut to character connection, it’s important for Hollywood to recognize that adolescents want stories that reflect the full spectrum of relationships,” said Uhls in a statement shared by Deadline.
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With movie theaters across the country closed for the past few months, the film industry has experienced some significant changes over the past year. What people want to see and how they watch movies has shifted and these are the biggest film trends of 2020 so far. Popularity of Action and Adventure Genres Action and […]
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]]>With movie theaters across the country closed for the past few months, the film industry has experienced some significant changes over the past year. What people want to see and how they watch movies has shifted and these are the biggest film trends of 2020 so far.
Popularity of Action and Adventure Genres
Action and adventure have always been popular genres, but in 2020 people have been using them as a form of escape. Films like Bad Boys For Life, Sonic The Hedgehog, and Birds of Prey were big releases this year and they did well at box offices.
Women Making Female-Centric Films
At the end of 2019, we started seeing women made female-centric films like Little Women and Lady on Fire and 2020 began with Birds of Prey. Other female-centric films made by women to look forward to later this year include Wonder Woman 1984, Black Widow, and Mulan.
Sequels and Remakes
Bad Boys For Life, Birds of Prey, Doolittle, To All the Boys: P.S. I Still Love You, and Emma have all been successful sequels or remakes. Fans can’t seem to get enough of the characters in these films and they’re dying to know what happens next.
(@toalltheboysnetflix)Streaming
Due to theaters being closed, many movies have gone straight to streaming sites instead of playing in theaters first. More and more people are streaming films from Netflix, Hulu, Disney Plus, Peacock, and Amazon Prime.
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