Film Required for the Class With a

¶ … film required for the class with a non-Required film of your choice. Andy Tennant's movie Hitch and Glen Ficarra's movie Crazy, Stupid, Love describe romantic stories by also relating to more complex topics such as love and the difficulty associated with winning someone's heart. Hitch presents Will Smith as Alex 'Hitch' Hitchens, a man who assists other men in overcoming their timidity and in captivating the attention of persons that they are interested in.

Similarly, Similarly, Crazy, Stupid, Love presents viewers with a story involving a young man, Jacob Palmer (Ryan Gosling) who is experienced in dealing with women and who helps the central character, Cal Weaver, as he deals with a serious crisis in his life and as he tries to be more attractive to the opposite sex.

Alex Hitchens and Jacob Palmer both seem proficient in understanding women and what they want up to the point where they end up providing less fortunate men with advice in order for them to be able to hook up with women that they could only dream of otherwise. These two characters are initially portrayed as confident persons who are not interested in having long-term relationships and feel perfectly comfortable with who they are.

However, as the storylines advance viewers gradually observe how these two are not as perfect as they might seem and how they actually come to be uncertain with regard to the principles that they appreciated up to a point in their lives. Considering that Hitch appeared first (2005) while Crazy, Stupid, Love appeared in 2011, it would only be safe to assume that the former provided some sort of inspiration for the latter.

One can even go as far as to say that Glen Ficarra's film is the white version of Andy Tennant's movie. Even with the fact that they address the topic from different points-of-view, both films are basically the same when considering the suave central characters who initially have problems believing that love actually exists and they gradually come to realize that they need to restructure their lives in order to be able to have the persons they want to be with.

The two movies are largely meant to discuss the idea of an attractive bachelor who sees relationships as a game and who becomes proficient in playing it. This respective individual sees matters from a material perspective and it is only when he comes across more serious emotions that he decides to change who he is in favor of being in a traditional relationship.

The films are basically intended to emphasize that people are always going to 'fall victim' to love and that there is nothing that someone can do in order to fight such feelings, even with the fact that the person.