Love interest
Love Interest (alternatively also Romantic Interest ) is a term from film and literary language and describes a motif that is used frequently and in many different genres .
description
Love Interest describes a character who is adored by the protagonist of the respective work, but who often seems or is inaccessible to him. Different expressions of the motif are used in film and literature, so the main character can win their love interest in the course of the action, or it remains an inaccessible "object of desire". The interplay of protagonist and love interest is often used to build up conflict or dramatic storylines.
The motif of love interest was or is sometimes rejected by critics . In the 1950s, for example, various reviewers criticized the introduction of the love interest character into the science fiction genre and described it as “useless” and “irrelevant”.
Examples
- In William Shakespeare's drama Heinrich V , the French princess Katherina, who married Heinrich in the last act, represents the love interest .
- The 1979 film Norma Rae - A woman stands by her husband is an example of a plot in which the protagonist completely changes her life through her love interest , without actually achieving it.
- In the film Die Sensationsreporterin (1981), the protagonist and love interest initially come together, but the relationship breaks up at the end of the film.
- In Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver , the prostitute Iris is the taxi driver Travis' love interest , but the two never really get closer.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Caroline Amann: Love Interest. In: Lexicon of film terms. Accessed May 31, 2020 .
- ^ Love interest. Urban Dictionary, accessed May 31, 2020 .
- ↑ Barry Keith Grant: Film Genre Reader III . University of Texas Press, Austin 2009, ISBN 0-292-70184-5 , pp. 346 (English, limited preview in Google Book search).
- ↑ Jennifer Mulherin, Abigail Frost: Henry V . Cherrytree Press, Berkshire 1, ISBN 1-84234-031-X , pp. 29 ( limited preview in Google Book search).