THE NOTEBOOK
By: Nick Cassavetes based on Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook.
The Notebook is a story filled with love and bourgeois tragedy, with anguish and a wholesome reunion.
The movie based on the novel by Nicholas Sparks of the same name, and is the most successful
adaptation of his work, according to Box Office Mojo. The story although, pretty simple in plot still gives
the audience the excitement love can bring. There are a few story telling elements that I have found to
be very cliché, and typical of any love story. With its very formulaic sequence and predictable patterns.
The story is about a young couple who’s head over heels for each other but, was separated because of
the girl’s parents. The story is decent and is a great watch, by all means.
Our lead female character Allie Hamilton, a girl with the same name as the aforementioned Ms.
Hamilton, is played by Rachel McAdams, and she spends her summer vacation in Seabrook in the late
1930s. The story opens in a nursing home where Duke (James Garner), a resident, reads a romance story
to Ms. Hamilton, an elderly woman suffering from dementia and memory loss. While spending the night
at a nearby carnival, our female character is spotted by a local worker, who is instantly in love. This is a
common story point in love romances. Noah Calhoun describes the moment he first saw our female lead
as "love at first sight."
This plot point tends to feel rushed and feels unearned, but, one thing that gives this its edge is that our
female lead is with another set of friends that are just as wealthy as her. At first, she bullies him. leaving
him hanging from the Ferris wheel and her stripping his pants off while he hangs; If this happened in real
life the man probably would have been embarrassed and would have stopped right there, but that is not
what happened. it only made our male lead more determined to make her his. And it eventually happened
with a lot of encounters. Those encounters aren’t important to the story, as, any amount of interaction
between them, as long as its sufficient in developing attraction between the two would work. The part
where he approaches her could have been replaced with another scene and it would have worked.
After these two finally ended up with each other. Our Noah chooses to take her to an ancient house where
he shares with her his desire to renovate it. Their attempt at making out ended with their friend catching
them in the act. These days, numerous films, like "Queen of Hearts," "Melancholia," "Truth or Dare," and
many more, depict this. Since they were almost discovered and the ensuing situation would be
embarrassing, this is mainly comic relief. As a result, the buddy calls the police because it's three in the
morning and informs the two lovers that Allie's parents were looking for her. early in the day. Another
cliché that is typically used as comic relief to shock the audience is this one, and it immediately creates an
atmosphere of tension. The narrative then reverts to the well-known cliché of the parents disapproving of
their daughter's potential love partner.
Naturally, this led to the two being split apart. The war kept the two lovers apart for two years; one was a
soldier and the other a nurse. After the war, Noah, who was now a soldier and had recently lost his
comrade Fin to the conflict, returned to Seabrook to restore his dream home. Allie is currently having a
blast with a new wealthy lover she cared for during the war, Lon Hammond, played by James Marden,
