Valentine’s Day is upon us — whether you’re hitched, on Hinge, poly, or conscientiously abstaining, love is in the air and clouding the business ether, folks.
In honor of the season, and irrespective of your status, we’ve got a romantic comedy to suit your star sign.
In accordance with “Glamour Magazine,” the genre owes a debt to old Hollywood, specifically movies generally known as “comedies of manners,” which followed a wealthy protagonist who invariably fell in love with a down-at-the-heel type. See, “It Happened One Night,” the natural predecessor of “Crazy Wealthy Asians.”
This ‘money can’t buy love and love is the biggest wealth of all’ narrative was by all accounts, comforting to threadbare Depression-era audiences.
Screwball comedies got here in next, succeeded by sex comedies that pitted skilled rivals against one another to hilarious and heartwarming effect.
As film is invariably a mirror of the culture through which it’s created, the sexual revolution of the Nineteen Sixties further modified the landscape, ushering in radical romantic comedies; cynical, existential movies about relationships that called into query themes of lasting love and private autonomy. (See: “Annie Hall.”)
Today we live, watch, and hope in the era of the neotraditional romantic comedy — one that emphasizes compatibility and compromise.
(My version of a romantic comedy is “Natural Born Killers,” but that hasn’t prevented me from prescribing a love story for your stars.)
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Ten Things I Hate About You
A major example of a fictional Aries boyfriend? IRL ram Heath Ledger as Patrick Verona in “10 Things I Hate About You.” Rebellious Verona meets his match in acerbic Kat Stratford played by Julia Stiles, a fellow IRL Aries. Together these two fire-born beauties inhabit the frustration of wanting to be finished with something (highschool) and on to the next adventure (literally, the rest.) Stuffed with the fine-line energy between love and hate, passion and ire, insult, and attraction, this teen classic is cardinal firepower.
Moonstruck
Apex Taurus Cher once admitted that she has limited range as an actress. As the mononymous icon told the Recent York Times, “I’ve never tried anything greater than playing who I’m. When you take a look at my characters, they’re all me.” Taking the woman at her word, then her performance as hot widow Loretta Castorini also falls under the stars of the bull. A superstitious homebody that trades in a wealthy suitor for a rakish bakery owner? Checks out.
When Harry Met Sally
Most Gemini folks would relatively speak about sex than have it and the majority consider a healthy debate akin to foreplay. Enter “When Harry Met Sally,” a canonical film that begs the query, “Can men and girls ever just be friends?” A romantic comedy predicated on disagreement and peppered with late-night phone calls, highly quotable dialogue, and the love stories of varied couples? Gemini to the hilt.
How To Lose a Guy in 10 Days
Ruled by the moodiest of luminaries, Cancer natives are ever and at all times attempting to protect their vulnerable underbellies from being seen or exploited. Crabs will recognize themselves in the deflecting tactics of 2003’s “How To Lose a Guy in 10 Days,” which pits a die-hard, big betting bachelor against a reporter pretending to be desperate each to prove some extent and to avoid true intimacy. Seems like some water sign s–t to me.
13 Happening 30
Rulers of the fifth house of creativity, Leo represents the inner child kicking around in the ever-aging husk of every of us. “13 Happening 30” honors that kiddo and the want to be “thirty and flirty and thriving,” catapulting a fresh from the threshold teenager into the adult type of Jennifer Garner. Complete with a glad ending and a “Thriller,” dance sequence, big cats can be very satisfied.
The Princess Bride
Virgo rules the sixth house of service and every day rituals — never has bucolic farm work and fetched water pitchers felt more aspirational than in “The Princess Bride.” Wesley’s refrain of “as you want” is a well-known rattle in the hearts of all devoted Virgos. Concerned with ritual purification, this mutable earth sign will appreciate that true love — which reigns supreme and happily ever after — is born from staying the course.
The Lobster
Symbolized by the scales and ruling the seventh house of partnership, those with serious Libra placements often fear being alone and feel incomplete with no romantic attachment. “The Lobster,” a dark romantic comedy set in a hotel (Libra’s preferred environment) satirizes societal expectations by making a world through which the punishment for not finding your match on time is transmogrification into an animal.
Bones and All
While this one falls squarely in the very area of interest romantic horror genre, Scorpios will appreciate that darkness sees darkness and love conquers all on this story of cannibal outcasts on the open road to nowhere but one another.
Harold and Maude
Sagittarius is the sign of the seeker, the subversive, the unexpected, and optimism as a weapon of resistance. “Harold and Maude” is a black comedy that follows the unlikely romance between a death-obsessed teenager and a criminal septuagenarian (and obvious archer). The film illustrates what Sag innately understands; that at its highest potential, a free spirit is an airborne contagion and love the biggest liberator.
Love & Basketball
Capricorn is ruled by grind-or-die planet Saturn. Oxygenated by oneupmanship and dedicated to the long game, those born under the sign of the sea goat make for natural competitors. Enter “Love & Basketball,” a story of two athletes whose love of the game is usually at odds with their love for one another. Featuring one-on-one strip basketball and a double for nothing, the prize is your heart game of hoops, that is the quintessential movie for a sign that believes in winning in any respect costs — and to find a partner that can go the distance.
Fire Island
Aquarians, governed as they’re by status-upholding Saturn and burn-tradition-to-the-ground Uranus, will appreciate this contemporary retelling of Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice.” Set in the charming hamlet/gay mecca of Recent York’s Fire Island, the movie champions the bonds of friendship while exploring classism and culture clashes amidst a background of medicine, sex, and other complications.
Everlasting Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Pisces is ruled by Neptune, the planet of delusion and forgetting, brain fog, and the getaway automobile that carries you away from reality. In kind, “Everlasting Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” is a dystopian romantic comedy that follows former lovers who go to great and extractive lengths to flee the memories of one another. Clementine, played with aplomb by Kate Winslet is a classic, manic pixie dream girl and quintessential jewel-haired, tender-hearted, martyr for love Pisces.
Astrologer Reda Wigle researches and irreverently reports back on planetary configurations and their effect on each zodiac sign. Her horoscopes integrate history, poetry, popular culture and private experience. She can be an achieved author who has profiled a wide range of artists and performers, in addition to extensively chronicled her experiences while traveling. Amongst the many intriguing topics she has tackled are cemetery etiquette, her love for dive bars, Cuban Airbnbs, a “girls guide” to strip clubs and the “weirdest” foods available abroad.