The Notebook
Brianna Efaw
English Comp II
Evaluation
Happily Ever After
I am evaluating the movie The Notebook directed by Nick Cassavetes and written by Nicolas Sparks. It features the perfect couple, Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams, who have a steamy romance throughout the movie. The couple goes through real life situations, ups and downs in their relationship, and end up together in the end of it all. It portrays the perfect romance with a twist viewers don’t see coming.
To be a good romance film, it needs to have a good story line that provokes emotion through some kind of relationship. Keeping the viewer on the tip of his/her seat, the relationship needs to not be so easy. There needs to be a challenge or obstacle that is holding the match made in heaven apart. This adds to the emotional aspect of the movie. In the Notebook, Noah (Ryan) and Ally (Rachel) have this hot and heavy summer romance where they fall deeply in love. They are passionate lovers, while at the same time defensive fighters. They constantly fight and make up throughout the summer. Ally has to move away once the school year has started and then she continues onto college in a different location, holding the couple back. Not only is there distance between these love birds, but Alley’s mother secretly steels the letters that Noah wrote to her. So on one hand, Noah is confessing his love to Ally without a response, and Ally is miserably waiting for Noah to write her. Suspension builds when Ally later on in life finds another man who she is engaged to. The story takes off from there, but case in point, there is something preventing the couple from being together.
Also, the woman in the romance film needs to be identifiable to all women. Every woman cries during a romance film because there is something they want that they don’t have. Every woman who ever watches romance films sees a little bit of herself in the main female character, and she is envious of her. That’s why we watch them! Because when
English Comp II
Evaluation
Happily Ever After
I am evaluating the movie The Notebook directed by Nick Cassavetes and written by Nicolas Sparks. It features the perfect couple, Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams, who have a steamy romance throughout the movie. The couple goes through real life situations, ups and downs in their relationship, and end up together in the end of it all. It portrays the perfect romance with a twist viewers don’t see coming.
To be a good romance film, it needs to have a good story line that provokes emotion through some kind of relationship. Keeping the viewer on the tip of his/her seat, the relationship needs to not be so easy. There needs to be a challenge or obstacle that is holding the match made in heaven apart. This adds to the emotional aspect of the movie. In the Notebook, Noah (Ryan) and Ally (Rachel) have this hot and heavy summer romance where they fall deeply in love. They are passionate lovers, while at the same time defensive fighters. They constantly fight and make up throughout the summer. Ally has to move away once the school year has started and then she continues onto college in a different location, holding the couple back. Not only is there distance between these love birds, but Alley’s mother secretly steels the letters that Noah wrote to her. So on one hand, Noah is confessing his love to Ally without a response, and Ally is miserably waiting for Noah to write her. Suspension builds when Ally later on in life finds another man who she is engaged to. The story takes off from there, but case in point, there is something preventing the couple from being together.
Also, the woman in the romance film needs to be identifiable to all women. Every woman cries during a romance film because there is something they want that they don’t have. Every woman who ever watches romance films sees a little bit of herself in the main female character, and she is envious of her. That’s why we watch them! Because when