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A bromantic comedy is a satirical, comedic film genre. A bromantic comedy film takes the formula of the typical “romantic comedy” and turns it on its head by instead focusing on close male friendships.〔() Pattersen, John. "True Bromance". ''The Guardian.'' 10 April 2009〕〔() Bookey, Mike. “Bromantic Comedy: Actors squeeze formulaic plot for all its laughs” ''The Source Weekly''. March 25, 2009.〕 == Description == Bromance, a word that blends the words "brother" and "romance", can be defined as a “close nonsexual friendship between men"〔() Miriam Webster online dictionary〕〔() RAMANUJAM, SRINIVASA. “Coming soon, a ‘bromantic’ comedy” ''The Hindu''. March 3, 2015.〕 A bromantic comedy finds humor in reversing the formula of the typical “romantic comedy”. For example the film ''Superbad'' ends with the two male leads rocking each other to sleep. In the film ''Knocked Up'', it is not the man and woman that have the romantic chemistry, but the two men. In ''I Love you, Man'', it is not the man and woman (the bride and groom) of the story who fall in love, break up, and then are reunited romantically at the end — but the two male leads.〔 Bromantic comedy films present expressions of male intimacy, while toying with the suggestion of something other than "straight" behavior, and at the same time insisting that such intimacies not be misinterpreted as anything beyond friendship.〔DeAngelis, Michael. ''Reading the Bromance. Homosocial Relationships in Film and Television''. Wayne State University Press. 2014. ISBN 9780814338988〕〔() Batyrefa, Amina. “Our romance with the “bromance”; No homo, man.” ''The McGill Daily''. January 19, 2013〕 The “slovenly hipster” protagonists of the bromantic comedy usually are not mature and are lacking in ambition. They are "beta males" that are into porn and junk food, but they are forced to grow up when they discover “straight arrow” women, children and responsibility.〔(“King of bromance: Judd Apatow" ''Independent''. 19 August 2009. )〕 It is a story of “the dissolution of a male pack, the ending of a juvenile male bond,” according to David Denby in ''The New Yorker''.〔(Denby, David. “A Fine Romance; The new comedy of the sexes”. ''The New Yorker''. July 23, 2007. )〕 Bromantic comedies contain the concept of a “code” between men: “bro’s before ho’s”. The idea is that the bonds between men are more significant, stronger, deeper and based on mutual understanding, whereas the bonds between a man and a women can be capricious, shallow and less satisfying. So, if a man leaves his male friends for a woman, he will eventually be dumped, abandoned, betrayed, and/or dominated. This may be too dark for comedy, so bromantic comedies deal with misogyny with tentativeness.〔 There is often an element in the plot that allows the men to go off on their own, away from the women. Examples of this are the “man cave” of ''I Love You, Man'', or the “mancation” of ''The Hangover''.〔〔() Aisenberg, Joseph. ''Bright Lights Film Journal''. July 31, 2009.〕 According to film scholar Timothy Shary in ''Millennial Masculinity: Men in Contemporary American Cinema'', a number of films in this genre, like ''Wedding Crashers'', provide a surprising level of bisexuality for its male characters, and a place for more diversified male relationships to exist.〔Shary, Timothy, author and editor. ''Millennial Masculinity: Men in Contemporary American Cinema''. Wayne State University Press (2012) ISBN 978-0814334355〕 Shakespeare’s play, ''Love’s Labor’s Lost'', provides, in its opening passage,〔(Text of ''Love's Labour's Lost'' ) at MIT.edu 〕 a comedic prototype for the idea of men agreeing to a "code" to sequester themselves and avoid romance with the opposite sex.〔() Tranquilli, Marrissa. “That Awkward Boredom: A Bromantic Comedy”. ''The Cornell Daily Sun''. February 7, 2014 〕〔Woudhuysen, H. R., ed. ''Love's Labours Lost'' (London: Arden Shakespeare, 1998): 61.〕 Judd Apatow is a prominent director of the bromantic comedy genre. His films ''The 40 Year Old Virgin'' (2005),〔〔Cateridge, James. ''Film Studies For Dummies''. John Wiley & Sons (2015) ISBN 9781118886533 page 120.〕 and ''Knocked Up'' (2007) paved the way for a surge of similar films that were released in the mid-late 2000s.〔Setoodeh, Ramin. "Isn't It Bromantic?" Newsweek 8 June 2009: 73. Academic OneFile. Web. 24 Oct. 2014.〕 Films from this era found an audience for the comedic depiction of same-sex relationships, something to which male viewers could relate, but which had been overlooked by screenwriters.〔() Alberti, John. "''I Love You, Man'': Bromances, the Construction of Masculinity, and the Continuing Evolution of the Romantic Comedy." Quarterly Review of Film and Video 30.2 (2013): 159-72. Taylor & Francis. Web. 28 Oct. 2014.〕〔Filippo, Maria San. ''The B Word: Bisexuality in Contemporary Film and Television''. Indiana University Press (2013) ISBN 9780253008923. Page 225-226.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「bromantic comedy」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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