Every bookstore is overflowing with trashy looking romance novels. How come this stuff never made an impact on cinema? If the market can support ten million movies about tough guys with guns, surely it can support the same kind trashy stuff for the female audience.
The movies are absolutely stuffed with Harlequin-type movies. The latest on being The Vow.
Because Hollywood doesn’t want to portray all that explicit sex.
I’m serious. Most romance novels today are not what the stereotypes might be. I was reading a few of them and by chapter two there was already a sex scene. And the characters were always thinking of more sex and are only prevented by circumstances from fucking like minks (and even then, the author finds ways to have them imagining it happen). The only real difference between them and porn is that the language is less blunt.
What kind of sexless movies are you going to? Have you seen Friends With Benefits?
You really didn’t understand what he was saying? He didn’t say sexless. Sure there are sex scenes in movies. But with few notable exceptions they don’t have them back to back to back and as explicit as there are in the books.
Well then, he’s never read a Harlequin then because that’s not how it happens. Single title romances, sure. But not Harlequins.
Perhaps you all are not acquainted with the Harelquin series of series romance. These are their lines:
Harlequin American Romance
Harlequin Blaze
Harlequin Desire
Harlequin Heartwarming
Harlequin Historical
Harlequin Intrigue
Harlequin Medical Romance
Harlequin NASCAR
Harlequin Nocturne
Harlequin Presents
Harlequin Romance
Harlequin Romantic Suspense
Harlequin Special Edition
Harlequin Special Releases
Harlequin Superromance
The Blaze and Desire lines are pretty sex heavy. Even when not doing it, they’re thinking about doing it. But it isn’t at all as much as the two of you are making it seem.
Your average rom-com cover the milder ones; man+woman + obstacle separates them + obstacle overcome by action or fate= happiness!
and your classier porn covers the rest.
Harlequin NASCAR?
I know! I LOLed at that, thinking how clever and funny Biggirl was, and then I googled it. And laughed again. Yes, harlequin NASCAR. Awesome.
Forget I said “Harlequin”. I just meant “HOT HOT HOT” looking romance novels.
Oh. Probably because too much sex.
Damn. I remember the old days when my grandmother read Harlequins and there was nothing beyond kissing (and melting) in them. Most of them ended with the engagement. A few had marriages of convenience or duty and ended just before the consummation.
In COLOR!
I’m glad to see there isn’t a Harlequin Science Fiction line.
There are time travel series romances but not Harlequin. I believe Nocturne is vampires and werewolves.
Go watch the Hallmark channel, Lifetime, Lifetime Movie Network, WE and Oxygen sometime.
Those networks are stuffed chock-full of bad romantic movies that are pretty much trashy romantic novels minus the sex.
Stuff like Montana Sky, and The Santa Suit is pretty much par for the course on those channels.
That’s as close to Harlequin romance novels as you’re likely to get on TV. Montana Sky’s even based on a Nora Roberts (queen of romance novels) book.
They show up as “made for TV movies” as well. Hallmark Channel, ABC Family, and Lifetime (when women aren’t in peril, they’re having wacky hijinks while falling in love) show harlequin novel-like movies.
I’ve even seen adaptations of Harlequin novels on those channels. (Yes, I read romance novels and watch bad tv.)
The LUNA imprint is fantasy.
books
writing guidelines
NA$CAR will tell you that more than 40% of their fans are women.http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/05/13/sunday/main2795460.shtml
NASCAR will do and sell anything to make a buck and since they and Harlequin feel that some even know how to read, voila, a line of romance novel books centered on
NASCAR.
It has been speculated that women can relate to NASCAR because the cars look like everyday vehicles (they even have decals to look like headlights), unlike other series like IndyCar and Le Mans sports cars.
“Harlequin Superromance”? Please tell me this involves super heroes.