¶ … 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...

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…