Has films and literature given us false hopes of Love?

Such as Hollywood movies, Disney cartoons, Shakespeare, Nicholas Sparks, etc. Since love is so hard to find, and films and romantic literature make it look so real and promising. Do you think its false hope or appropriate reassurance?Has films and literature given us false hopes of Love?
its not exactly false hope, because love like you see in the movies does happen, but it definitely harder to find and make work than the entertainment buss. puts on. at the same time though....reassurance maybe. maybe letting people know that it is possible if you find the right person? but alot of times those boundaries are pushed and stretched and made to seem like something else.Has films and literature given us false hopes of Love?
To a certain extent I think that it has a little. But it all really depends on how you internalize it. I myself have always loved romantic films and now that I think that I think about it most of my favorite movies all deal with romance in some sort of fashion. My all time favorite film-Gone With the Wind drew me in with Rhett Butlers undying love and affection for Scarlett O'Hara. And then of course there's Titantic and more recent films from the 90's like Sleepless in Seattle, You've Got Mail, 27 Dresses, Pretty Woman, My Best Friend's Wedding. And of course Disney movies always have that fairly tale ending. So, I do think that it's a little bit of both. Reassurance that there's love out there for everyone and that you'll be able to somehow find that person. But also false hope in that you may never be able to find that one special person. (Movies always make it seem like it's just that one person).
The movie is a story about other people. It's about them experiencing love not I.





Love is not a right. Not everyone gets to experience it. Unfortunetly such movies raise the expectations of people...many of whom may not even be deserving of such love.


Furthermore romance doesn't come about just because you are intimate with someone. Roses don't buy themselves.


The bottom line is...if you find it...don't **** up. If you haven't yet...well keep looking. What else do you have to do?
Whenever watching one of those romantic comedies or just a romantic movie, I get all the butterflies inside. I love it. I do hope for that to happen one day. I believe it to be a false hope only for a few moments because I always think the impossible will become possible.
Definitely! Love is not easy to find or keep.


I think they give people hope, but sometimes too much.


However Shakespeare did not make love easy, his love stories were complicated, but they were exaggerated so I'll give you that.15 year olds willing to die for each other. Really?! Just a bit dramatic.
hmm its probably false hope, but its always nice to dream :D


theres no way thats appropriate reassurance...and anybody who is about 14 is going to believe that it is. There's no way love is as magical or common as they portray in the movies...
I guess you can view it in this way. But really it is just marketing. Who doesn't want to have true love? They are just using something that everyone desires in their life, so in turn yes it gives them a bit of false hope.
To a lot of people--yes. False hope.





However, I read Vonnegut and Palahniuk's books, who are so cynical that I think I balance out.


Most of the movies I watch are depressing, though.
It's not intentionally false hope, they're just looking to set forth an example that makes the idea irresistible.
Not completely false, but over exaggerated.
You will only find love like those with your soul mate and nobody else. It will be hard and difficult to do so but you must keep trying if you want your life to romantic and promising as in hollywood films.
OF COURSE ITS KINDA BOTH ....... I'VE BEEN WAITING ON MY ROMEO N SUPERHERO FOR A LONG TIME BUT SOME FAIRY TALES ARE ONLY WHAT YOU MAKE THEM!!!
yes it makes everybody believe it will all turn out allright
Oh boy, it sooo hard to face reality.
yes, they make you wish something that is very unlikely to happen in reality...
Yep, all of it..its just imagination people!
yes
....maybe
i think the love we find in them is born of that hope.





and so basically we're just dreaming thru someone else's dream.


and hanging on to it do to a lack of our own.
yes, look what it's done to me, i'm still waiting for my prince charming.