"I'm Clementine... No jokes about my name."

Watching both His Girl Friday and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind it was evident that the movies fit perfectly in the categories of a screwball comedy or romantic comedy. In His Girl Friday, Hildy, a sassy reporter, was recently divorced from her husband Walter who is the editor for The Morning Post. Working for the same newspaper they fell in love only to eventually get divorced. This movie is a great example of a screwball comedy not only because of the love story, but the dark humor and laughter behind it. Hildy is a very dominant character in this movie. She knows all the guys in the newspaper and is very comfortable with them. She also has no problem talking back to Walter. They both play dominance off each other which shows the screwball comedy because you don't usually see that in a love story. Also the dark humor that in is His Girl Friday is obvious too. An example of this is when Molly jumps off the building and gets everyones attention, but once they heard she survived they turned their attention to something else! Another example is how the people who write for the newspaper makes up lies or exaggerates the story just to get a print. Overall, I actually enjoyed watching this film. It was different where the female was dominant and the males were a little more inferior.

In Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Clemintine and Joel are lovers who go through a procedure that would erase their memories of each other because of the post break up pain. This is definetly a romantic comedy because it focuses on the love rather then the humor. During the process of erasing Joel's memory of Clemintine, he realizes he wants to keep them rather then erase them. So most of the film consist of what's going on in Joel's head during the erasing. The audience gets to wait and see what would happen to them at the end making this another reason why this movie is a romantic comedy. After you see both Clemintine and Joel's memory erased, they meet again unaware of what they did and what they erased. They are instantly connected and feels something for one another. So the love of Clemintine and Joel surrounds the whole film. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind isn't a typical chick flick, romantic comedy but it gave a different take on how romantic comedies can be portrayed so I enjoyed this movie very much!