It was the year 1932 when a film by Frank Capra, with Claudette Colbert and Clark Gable, started a genre know as romantic comedies. In that time the genre was focused on the topic "comedy of manners" which revolves in a millionaire who falls in love with a non-wealthy person. Then in the 40's evolved into screwball comedies, refer to the sport of baseball, when a pitcher will throw a screwball generating an unexpected outcome. Katherine Hepburn and Cary will be related to this kind of comedies.

In the 70's Woody Allen introduce and new element into the story, couples will talk about sex and love without any taboo's. thanks to the sexual revolutions of the 60's. Now romantic comedies follow a pattern of boys meets a girl, boy loses, girl boy gets girl back, but also have a new traditional style, when incorporating new elements, this is called Neo tradition romantic comedies. Films like When Harry Met Sally, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Nothing Hill, 10 Things I Hate about you, Pretty Woman, Love Actually and Bridget Jones Diary could be considered part of new wave of comedies.

Director Jon M. Chu brought to life the book by Kevin Kwan into a successful film, Crazy Rich Asians. Rachel Chu (Constance Wu) an economics professor of NYU have a relationship with boyfriend Nick Young (Henry Golding). One day Nick invite Rachel to accompany him to Singapore for his best friend wedding. Rachel is unaware that Nick is part of an extremely wealthy family in Asia, after a girl share on social media an image of both of them in a restaurant creating a web gossip.

Nick moms are very critical and don't accept Rachel as part of Nick's life, insinuating that she is a "gold digger". Rachel seeks support with her college friend Goh Peik Lin (Awkwafina) who live in Singapore with her family. The story continues through the wedding celebration until the unexpected ending.

Crazy Rich Asians contain what successful romantic comedies have, two strong characters, a good sidekick/comedy relief, a great location to develop a story, but goes against the first Hollywood model, no Caucasians actors. Why does this work? Why the film made so much money?

Simple, audiences are tired of seeing the same faces, the same stories with the same outcomes. For instance, the people in Crazy Rich Asians, are really crazy rich, not like rich American tacky millionaires, these people have so much wealth that is overwhelming. Just the wedding ceremony scene is enough to understand the magnitude of their wealth.

I have moved by the story and the characters, completely believable, but the main point of Crazy Rich Asians is a message about how everyone can make it, no matter where they come from. The message about immigrants is there and audiences get it.