How To Write a Love Triangle

This article will offer some key pointers on that most time-trodden (and wildly successful) cinematic device – the love triangle – and hopefully assist those looking to craft an original and effective one.

• Using a few films which incorporate love triangles into their narratives, we will discuss the key aspects to a successful and interesting love triangle.
• We will highlight how love triangles are typically a plot device for romance films. Many of these are romantic-comedies, but not exclusively.
• As we will discover, this plot device is also often employed in other genres, such as Action and Musicals. 

We will look to some of the following films for examples:

Famous Film Love Triangles…

 1. Bridget, Mark and Daniel (Bridget Jones Diary)

 2. Bella, Jacob and Edward (Twilight)

 3. Katniss, Peeta and Gale (The Hunger Games)

 4. Carrie, Charles and Hamish (Four Weddings and a Funeral)

 5. Iris, Jasper and Ethan (The Holiday)

 6. Satine, Christian and the Duke (Moulin Rouge!)

 7. Rose, Jack and Cal (Titanic)

These are just a few characters part of famous love triangles.