Crazy Rich Asians is a film that debuted in 2018 based on a 2013 novel of the same name.

The film grossed over $238 million on a budget of just $30 million.

This made it the highest grossing romantic comedy of the 2010s.

However, as you're about to see, there's a lot more that goes into making this movie

a success other than the rom-com marketing. This is a story that twists and mixes genre

conventions in many surprising ways, ways that writers like you and me can learn a lot from.

This is the Storygrid podcast. I'm your host, Tim Graal, of writer, and the CEO of StoryGrid.

Joining me shortly is Rachel Arsenault, a Story Grid certified editor. We're going to spend the next

four weeks looking closely at Crazy Ridge Asians and how this Masterwork story was constructed.

We're going to use the StoryGrid methodology created and developed by our founder, Sean

Coim, an editor and writer with over 30 years of experience. If you would like to get a sneak

peek into everything we're going to cover, you can go right now to storygrid.com slash crazy

to download a PDF of our completed analysis of crazy rich Asians.

In this episode, we're going to start by looking at the genre.

And what you may be surprised to find out is that this isn't a love story after all.

Okay, let's jump in and get started.

So let's just start with why we pick crazy rich Asians to look at. And I'll go first.

One is we just wanted to, I wanted to look at a love story. So the romance genre is the most

popular genre that has a huge amount of sales.

And then even outside of the love genre being the main genre,

there's love wraps into so many other stories.

And so I think it's important to look at one of these.

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