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The Importance of Dourness in Romantic Comedy

Sandra Bullock's comedic persona was really interesting, right? And really worked... I would say even better for rom-coms than Julia. Once she got too famous, I felt like she lost that a tiny bit. Well, once she's playing a movie star in a romantic comedy... She just became too famous. Not in Hill was the realest thing. America's sweethearts did not help, right? Sandra Bullock was very approachably hot. Like this congeniality is about a person who does not like being congenial. Right? It is anti-romantic comedy energy that creates the tension in the genre itself. This is how we know she was a

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