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Literature Poetry Lit Terms Shakescleare. Download this LitChart! A very broken, beaten-up soldier named Lon James Marsden, baby! Allie demurs, but then he gets better and leans against a car and it. What is this, a lesbian period piece?
Back to Noah, who finally has the means to buy the plantation of his dreams. Again, yikes. He also wears some extremely hot aviator sunglasses during the fix-up montage, then puts the house up for sale. Allie sees Noah in the paper and fully passes out, then takes a bath in her wedding dress.
Unfortunately, it really works for him. Back in the present, we learn that Duke has had several heart attacks! Emotion time! In one scene of The Notebook , you can even see the plantation's nine original slave cabins , which now serve as a collective exhibit preserving and honoring black history. That exhibit and, yes, the house used as Allie's summer home along with the rest of the grounds are open to the public.
By the end of the movie, it's easy to feel starry-eyed about Noah and Allie's romance. After all, their love took them away together. You can't get much sweeter albeit morbid than that, can you? But when you go back and take a closer look at their saga, cracks in the facade are more readily apparent.
In a word, their relationship is volatile. There's an entire montage devoted to how they never get along and often get into heated arguments.
They call each other names. When they break up , Allie is obviously distraught. Still, that doesn't mean she should physically accost Noah, pushing him and slapping him. In case you missed it, domestic violence is a serious issue. The fact that we, as fans, can overlook the aggression in Noah and Allie's relationship points to another problem: we've put them on a pedestal.
When TimeOut asked a team of experts to name the movies with the most unhealthy view of love , The Notebook made the cut. When Noah builds Allie a house with his bare hands, it seems dreamy. The fact that he refuses to give up on their love and basically lives in a state of frozen nostalgia comes off as sweet.
And the way he writes her without fail? But, c'mon, if an ex pulled half of the stuff Noah does, you'd probably have the local police precinct on speed dial. Even Ryan Gosling concedes this point. And in any other movie, this guy's gonna get locked up. But she thinks it's romantic. As previously mentioned, Allie and Noah don what amounts to winter wear during their younger years in the midst of the stifling South Carolina summer.
Yet, when Allie and Noah reunite years later and Noah rows Allie in a boat on the river, they've ditched the outerwear although it looks like they actually need it this time. At one point , you can even see Noah's breath against the frigid air. In an interview with Allure , Rachel McAdams confessed both counts — that it was in fact bitter cold, and that they were not dressed well for the weather.
That dress was made for the film, but a lot of the stuff I wore was rented and was actually from the s. So much of it was falling apart. I think there's a scene in the movie where I'm running in bare feet, and it's only because [after] the first few takes I did, the shoes disintegrated off my feet.
Speaking of that iconic boat ride Noah and Allie take, how is more not made of the ducks? Re-watching the film sans the love goggles of youth, the romance of the scene fails to drown out one very practical question: how did they get the ducks to, you know, cooperate? Well, prepare to be wowed. Despite being told by New Line Cinema that shooting a scene with that many birds would never work, director Nick Cassavetes would not be deterred.
He stubbornly went out, bought a bunch of hatchlings, and had someone march them down to the lake every single day to be fed. He may not have had the biggest role in The Notebook , but veteran actor and playwright Sam Shepard shone through just the same. His role, of course, was that of Noah's blue collar dad, Frank Calhoun — a man who read poetry by Walt Whitman with his son and sold his house so Noah could finally buy Windsor Plantation.
The character, despite being minor, made a major impact thanks to Shepard's warmth and commitment. Check my Pulitzers if you don't believe me.
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