The Christmas rom-com checklist

Brut America

Snow, hot cocoa, snowball fight, ice skating, and lots and lots of twinkle lights...   Holiday rom-coms have a very specific formula to be successful and capture that Christmas magic.

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00:00Anything's possible at Christmas.

00:01You'll almost find that line in every movie.

00:07You have to have snow.

00:10You have to have a scene where you have hot cocoa.

00:13Most interesting person who was ever born.

00:15Maybe I am.

00:17Preferably you have a scene where you ice skate

00:19or like you learn to ice skate together.

00:20It's in everything.

00:21I've always skated circles around you.

00:23I love it when they do that.

00:24They want that coziness.

00:26There's gotta be that dazzling decoration.

00:28We want the Christmas.

00:29We want the cookies.

00:30Every time there's a snowball fight.

00:32You know, drink.

00:33But really at the end of the day,

00:34it's about falling in love.

00:39Christmas has to be one of the main characters.

00:41Is it a Christmas memory?

00:42Is it something that happens at Christmas?

00:44Is it Christmas traditions?

00:45Is it the making cookies?

00:46Is it the families getting together?

00:48It has to be an integral part of the story.

00:50Or else it's just a rom-com

00:51that you're doing any other time of year.

00:53So my early Christmas present for you is

00:56a blind date.

00:57I love it.

00:58Christmas is a time of year

00:59when everybody opens their heart

01:01around the world.

01:02It's like you're putting a little blanket around you

01:05when you watch a rom-com.

01:07You add that Christmas element

01:08to a traditional romantic comedy

01:10and you just get even more of that.

01:12People go to see those movies

01:13because of the predictability.

01:15You know, because they kind of know

01:17what's going to happen in there.

01:19You know, it's like,

01:20because they kind of know

01:21what's going to happen in there.

01:23Whether they're good or bad,

01:24the cheesiness,

01:25whatever sort of scale it's on,

01:27I think there's something comforting

01:29and appealing.

01:37You're, you know, indoors.

01:39You need actors.

01:40But you're not doing massive effects.

01:42And so it limits your location.

01:44Romantic comedies are about people.

01:46So you need a great script

01:47and you need great actors.

01:48But those, depending,

01:50are relatively affordable.

02:13Why are they staring?

02:15Because you look perfect.

02:16Just this year, more than 140

02:18original Christmas movies

02:20are coming out.

02:30We've gone through a major transformation

02:31just in the last couple of years.

02:33I'm really excited about the direction

02:34I'm seeing all of the networks

02:36and the streamers take

02:37to be more authentic.

02:38And we need to see people

02:40all from different nationalities,

02:41from different parts of the world,

02:42because that's who we are as a world.

02:43We're not one cookie cutter way.

02:45Go pedal on a mountain.

02:49Don't mean to brag, but I got skills.

02:54I mean, we want to feel like

02:56the fairy tale could happen to us

02:58where people are just, you know,

03:0010% more put together

03:02than they are in real life.

03:03And the situations are just,

03:05once again, turned up

03:06and even crazier

03:07than they would be in real life.

03:08And there's almost a guaranteed

03:10happy ending with the genre, too.

03:12And I think especially

03:13after the year or two we've had,

03:15I think right now in particular,

03:17there's such a hunger

03:18for sort of feel-good entertainment.

03:24I say that's absolutely OK.

03:26You watch whatever

03:27your little heart loves.

03:28But for those of us

03:29that do love rom-coms,

03:31come watch them with me.

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