Basic Trope: A romance develops faster in the adaptation than in the original work.
- Straight: In Alice and Bob, it takes two years for Alice and Bob to progress from getting acquainted to getting married. In Alice and Bob: The Movie, it takes six months.
- Exaggerated: In Alice and Bob, Alice and Bob meet in preschool, and it takes eighty years for their feelings to become romantic. In Alice and Bob: The Movie, they have a Fourth-Date Marriage.
- Downplayed: In Alice and Bob, Alice and Bob fall in love over the course of five months; in Alice and Bob: The Movie, over the course of four.
- Inverted: Alice and Bob's relationship develops much more gradually than in the original.
- Subverted: Alice and Bob, who in the original didn't become a couple until years after meeting, are shown kissing a week after they are introduced to each other, but it's quickly revealed they are just rehearsing for a play.
- Double Subverted: ...but actually, the rehearsal is just a pretext.
- Enforced: A Doorstopper novel can't be adapted into a movie of reasonable length without making it a Compressed Adaptation, including when it comes to romance.
- Conversed: "Why is Alice already declaring her love for Bob? At this point in the book, she barely remembered he existed!"
