Men In Love

There seems to be a new trend in Hollywood, men who carry a torch for their leading ladies. After a long period of women being the unrequited love torch-bearers, it seems the tide has turned. Gone are the long drawn out loves of the 90s, women pining for years over their men; all the while the man his sweet time to figure out whats up. Such films at Titanic, Jerry Maguire and Ever After have been replaced by movies like  The Notebook and Pride and Prejudice, both featuring male characters who are proud to say, "I am in love."


I first began to notice this trend on the 100th episode of Bones, where David Boreanz's Special Agent Seely Booth confesses to the Bones lady herself, Emily Deschanel's Dr. Temperance Brennan, "Its always the guy who knows... I'm that guy." Bones shoots him down on account of her troubled past, but Booth doesn't seems to mind. He's in love; he knows it, she knows it, but she's just not ready.

Following along the same line, on Gossip Girl the tables in the Chuck-Blair relationship have been reversed, Ed Westwick's Chuck Bass is now bent on regaining Leighton Meester's Blair, because, well, he loves her, and he's Chuck Bass.

Finally, in this week's Castle Nathan Fillion's Richard Castle is finally starting to show some love for Stana Katic's Detective Beckett, even though he has yet to confess it. Seems like its the men who are doing all of the falling onscreen right now, and its about time.