40 Year Old Virgin Jude Apatow
40 Year Old Virgin is a comedy romance starring Steve Carrel, Seth Rogan and Paul Rudd made in 2005. It includes themes of sexuality and relationship. The film is about a man who is found out by his work friends to be a virgin at the age of forty. He then goes on this long journey to lose his virginity and in the process find love. The film is not entirely meant to be deep and emotional. The real aim of this film is to provide the audience with entertainment. The film focuses on circumstances which do happen in the real world but are not heard of.  The emotion which is associated with the protagonist, Andy, is sadness but the filmmakers have used this sadness and made it comical at the same time.

Such as in the scene where Andy is remembering his past experiences with past girlfriends nearly having sex. Commonly , in a Hollywood film, the scene might be dragged out, to dramatize it, but this scene is very short, with Andy's ex girlfriend kissing down him and then goes to suck his toe. This makes the audience realise that Andy isn't just a nerdy guy who is inept at getting a girlfriend and having sex he has just instead had a very unfortunate sexual life when it comes to finding the right girl who he can connect with romantically and sexually.

This scene makes the audience empathise with Andy because we have all had struggles with relationships in the past. The film has a universal theme which a lot of people can relate to thus making it very popular with mainstream audiences. The performance from Steve Carrel is realistic but still has aspects of comedy such as the scene where Andy and his work friends are all playing cards and Andy is says how the boobs he has felt felt like sand bags. The friends reaction from around him display what the audience are probably thinking as well. The friends look surprised to what he said. Later after the poker scene Andy is seen riding his bike and repeating the line "they felt like sand bags" and realising how weird that must have sounded. Through this scene we feel sorry for the character because he is so embarrassed about his absence of sex.