Buddy-Movie ( English buddy movie , free translation " buddy movie ") is a subgenre of a feature film in which there are two main characters connected by friendship.
As Ira Konigsberg, the author of the explanatory dictionary dedicated to cinema, notes, “these films extol the strength and nobility of the male fraternity and at the same time diminish the importance of friendly relations between women. In mass culture, the topic of male partnership has always been given much attention, starting with the novels of James Fenimore Cooper and ending with commercials for beer ” [1] .
According to Philippe Gates, columnist for the Journal of Popular Film and Television , friendly cinema was born in the 1970s as a response to the feminist movement . “In order to punish women for their desire for equality, a friend’s film deprives them of a central role in their narrative, replacing traditional romantic relations between a man and a woman with friendly relations between two men. Both protagonists are men, and the whole plot plot is based on the growth and development of their friendship. The woman as an object of love interest completely disappears from the structure of the narration ” [2] .
However, many classic films about friends-friends were made before the 1970s - “ Two Fighters ” ( 1943 ), “ Rio Bravo ” ( 1959 ), “ Two Comrades Served ” ( 1968 ), “ Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid ” ( 1969 ), etc. In the 1950s and 1960s, the series of comedies with friendly tandems Martin - Lewis , Lemmon - Mattau in the lead role were very popular. Beginning in the 1970s, the story of the friendly films is often based on the story of two police officers, who are constantly in mortal danger and constantly help each other out of difficult situations (the series “ Starsky and Hutch ”, 1975 -79; the series “ Deadly weapons ” with 1987 ).
A classic example of a film about women's friendship is Thelma and Louise .
See also
- Bromance
Notes
- ↑ Ira Konigsberg. The Complete Film Dictionary. - Penguin, 1998. - p. 41. - ISBN 0140513930 .
- ↑ Gates, Philippa. Always a Partner in Crime: Black Masculinity in the Hollywood Detective Film (Eng.) // Journal of Popular Film and Television : journal. - 2004. - Spring ( vol. 32 , no. 1 ). - P. 20-29 .
Links
- It's Still a Guy Thing: The Evolution of Buddy Movies - an article in the Los Angeles Times