![]() ![]() So a bus drives by at the perfect moment, or someone gets distracted by a friend saying hello and doesn’t see their soulmate ordering coffee right behind them. It’s also found in romance flicks about lovers destined to find each other, just not quite yet. #SUNRISE TIME MOVIE#This trope can be employed in a spy movie to keep the protagonist hidden in plain sight, or in a thriller where tragedy keeps narrowly being avoided by sheer accidental circumstances. ![]() One of my all-time favorites is the “just missed him” trope where two characters keep barely missing each other due to ever more ridiculous reasons. Many tropes will elicit an eye roll and defeated sigh from me as well, but many I still find highly entertaining in the right context. There is a reason that tropes became tropes in the first place: they were successful and interesting approaches to a situation. This is because they are so common and used so often, they are completely unsurprising to audiences and bore them.īut when done well, these tropes can be the perfect way to design a scene. Done improperly, tropes can evoke eye rolls, groans, and claims of lazy and unoriginal writing. There are quite possibly hundreds of tropes: enemies to lovers, the mirror jump scare, henchmen with terrible aim, the interrupted kiss, walking away from an explosion, and a personal favorite, the trash talk “he’s right behind me, isn’t he?” punchline. In film and literature, there are numerous tropes popping up again and again thanks to their usefulness in creating tension, helping to move a plot along or providing comic relief. ![]()
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