Writing tip: characters need to talk to each other about things

I watch a lot of movies and among the many movies I watch there are many old movies. I like a classic, I don't know what to tell you. But when you watch a decent amount of classics you discover something interesting. Some of them aren't very good.

I realise art is subjective and people are always going to disagree about whether or not a movie is good, but for the purposes of my newsletter that no one asked me to write, I will be the one in charge of this.

In an example of a classic film not being very good, a few months to a couple of years ago, I watched Roman Holiday. I know people love this movie, I have seen people talk swooningly about this movie, but unfortunately it's only ok and there is a very specific reason for this. The characters never talk to each other about things.

I'm going to spoil Roman Holiday for you now, but that's ok because it's not a great movie. Audrey Hepburn plays the princess of some European principality or other. One night, while on a diplomatic visit to Rome, she runs away from her responsibilities and into Gregory Peck, a journalist who realises who she is immediately, but pretends he doesn't.

They spend the day galavanting about and then they kiss and she goes back to her life. The thing is, apart from the fact that they're both very beautiful and charismatic, there is absolutely no reason to believe they're into each other before they kiss. This is because they have not talked to each other about things.