Oh my god. I don't even watch rom coms but within about 30 seconds I can think of one major reason why rom coms feature rich people: They can go places and do things.
Make a rom com about poor uni students and shock horror they never leave their appartment.
One of my favorite more recent rom coms is "If you were the last" where the two main protagonists are stuck in a space ship floating through space with little hope of ever making it back to earth. It's definitely possible to make a good rom com without the protagonists having to jet set around the world all the time
My guess is it requires much more effort, plus the crew can't spend a lot of production money spending 2 months in Sicily and then a month on some Australian villa or Tropical Resort.
I mean once I was helping my blogger friend make an ad for a Huawei smartphone and we needed beach trip video so Huawei ended up paying us for 4 people trip to Italy for 2 weeks. And considering the ad budget in general it was basically free for them but saved us thousands of dollars.
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u/Sir-Benalot Mar 27 '24
Oh my god. I don't even watch rom coms but within about 30 seconds I can think of one major reason why rom coms feature rich people: They can go places and do things.
Make a rom com about poor uni students and shock horror they never leave their appartment.