From Love Story to Fifty Shades: Why Hollywood no longer makes proper heartfelt tear-jerkers
The IndependentIt’s half a century now since Yale classics professor Erich Segal, at the request of Paramount executive Peter Bart, agreed to write the novelisation of his own screenplay for the new movie, Love Story. Love Story, billed as “one of the most romantic films ever made”, has just been re-released in the US in time for Valentine’s Day to mark its 50th anniversary. open image in gallery It’s a sign of changing tastes in dating movies that the most successful Valentine’s Day film of recent times is ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ Not that Love Story was an obvious commercial proposition anyway. Newsweek sneered that “the banality of Love Story makes Peyton Place look like Swann’s Way as it skips from cliché to cliché with an abandon that would chill even the blood of a True Romance editor.” Nonetheless, the film provoked a huge emotional response in audiences.
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