The Notebook

Director - Nick Cassavetes

Writers - Jeremy Leven ( Screenplay ), Jansardi ( Adaption )

Stars - Gena Rowlands, James Garner, and Rachel McAdams

The plot of the movie is that a rich family moves out to the boomies to spend their summer, and then their daughter (Allie) falls in love with Noah that's from a poor family. After they fall in love they ended up spending their whole summer together, till one night they got into a fight about her family not approving of Noah, then one thing lead to another he left her house furious. Then the next morning Allie's mom decide its time to move out to the city. As she find out she runs to go find Noah to confess her feelings but once she reach the coal mine he's out working, So she runs out of time her mom drags her out of that place. Then Noah comes back finding out she left for the cities. He tried to reach her for a year straight, writing her everyday his thoughts, and theories, but no reply. Sadly, he didn't know that Allie's mom is the one that recieved and hid all the letters, keeping Allie away from Noah and introducing her to someone new.

What makes this romance so real is that even though they lost contact of each other, they still somehow and someway find a way to connect to each other until finally they get to be with each other.

The Proposal

This movie is about this one boss who makes her assistance , who knows her very well marry her so she can keep her visa status in the U.S. so they don't send her back to canada. They go out to his parents house in alaska. His family meets her . As the days past by they fall in love and realize there perfect for eachother.

Dan In Real Life

Dan In Real Life (2007)
Director : Peter Hedges
Writer : Peter Hedges & Pierce Gardner
Stars : Steve Carell, Juliette Binoche, and Dane Cook

In the movie Dan In Real Life it is about a guy and a girl who meet but are anonomous to eachother that it is his brothers girlfriend. Later on in the movie he finds out that his brother is dating her and they want to get married. Dan and his brothers girl hit it off really good when they meet eachother but then she is in a rush to go ( to his house where he is going to) and leaves him there. Later on they end up going to a bowling alley and they makeout and have a really good time and notice that they are better together then the brother and her are. The family walks in and all of them see them kissing under all the disco lights. Then the brother goes off and gets the girl that Dan meet a couple times and finds out he likes her more.

I think that the romance in this film worked out so well because Dan is an only father and a really nice guy. His brother is sort of the jerk and still wants to go have all of his fun out there in the world. In the end they work out because they are so cute together they meet in a really wierd way and he is just so goofy after that towards her.

Dear John

Release Date: February 5 , 2010
Director: Lasse Hallstrom
Writer's:Jamie Linden (Screenplay), Nicholas Spark (novel)
Stars: Channing Tatum , Amanda Seyfried and Richard Jenkins



In the movie Dear John. John was in the army and he came home for awhile and he met a girl name Savahnna they really didnt know each other. But he decieced to ask her they spent some time together. After two weeks they started dating. Things got hard for John because he fell in love with savahanna but he had to go back to the army. so they wrote each other to keep things going but it started to fall apart.








I feel like what made it so real was because anyone can actually fall in love in such a short time. And that people on average day has to worry about there husband or wife going back to fight for the country. During that time it's hard to keep a relationship going just be writing letters. So it's hard to keep the love strong.

release date: september 17th 2010

director: Will Gluck

screenwriter: Bert v. Royal

starring: Emma Stone, Aly Michalka, Amanda Bynes

easy a is a story of a girl who is in high school an feels invisible but all that quickly changes when a jesus loving freak overhears her telling her friend a lie about loosing her virginity and i gets all over the school then she makes an agreement with a gay guy to pretend to publically have sex with him so he wont get harrassed anymore. what made the feeling between the characters real was the fact that their relationship came together in the midst of all the drama that was goin on at the time.however the thing that made the relationship realistic was the fact that he was there throughout the story but reframed from participating in the drama and the judgement of her the whole time and the fact that they grew up together.

Scott Pilgrim vs the world

Scott Pilgrim vs the world

Edgar Wright

Micheal Bacall

Micheal Cera Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Kieran Culkin

Scott Pilgrim Sees a girl in a comic book store that he quickly fell for but theirs a catch and a girl he needs to lose. The catch is that he has to fight all of her exes to become Her boyfriend and to lose the girl theirs no way.

To me the way its realistic is because us Americans when we see a girl from a different country its like i want that and some people go through hoops for so he realizes that its worth fighting through all of those exes.

Wristcutters: A Love Story

Directed and Written by: Goran Dukic (Based on Kneller's Happy Campers by Etgar Keret)

Dead man Zia goes on a wild goose chase for his recently deceased ex-girlfriend, Desiree. With his dirty mouthed, loud-spoken friends Eugene and Mikal, he travels all over the suicide-afterlife in search of the reason he's there in the first place. The trio comes across a camp run by Kneller, a scruffy landlord who takes in anyone who needs a home. During their stay, Zia learns from his surprisingly intellectual new friends that there were parts of life he'd never considered when he left.

The relationship between Zia and Eugene is very much like one in the real world; not agreeing on as much as they have in common, they grow on each other and form a bond similar to brotherhood. Eugene's ridiculous sense of logic sets him back at first, but as Zia learns more about him he realizes that he has a wisdom all his own.

-- R.N.

Romance & Relationships in the Movies

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)

Directed by: Michel Gondry

Written by: Charlie Kaufman

Starring: Jim Carrey & Kate Winslet

Genre: Romance

Your assignment: Blog about a movie you have seen where the romance OR relationship between two characters was realistic. See blogging requirements below.

When writing a blog post, include a picture and the info (which you can get from imdb.com) you see above at the top. Then, you are required to 1) write a brief introductory paragraph describing the plot of the movie. Like this: Joel is still very much in love with his ex-girlfriend Clementine, but when he finds out she's had all memory of him erased from her brain by a strange medical service, he wants to do the same back. When he has the procedure done, however, he finds that he doesn't want to lose the memory of the love of his life.

In a brief second paragraph, describe 2) what made the romance and/or relationship between characters realistic. Like this: Even though Eternal Sunshine... has a weird sci-fi premise, where we live in a world where you can erase all memories of a specific person, the relationship between Joel and Clementine is definitely genuine. Director Michel Gondry shows us both glimpses of when they fight (Joel hates when Clementine "gets drunk and stupid" at dinner) and when they play lovey dovey games together (one pretends to smother the other in bed with a pillow only to surprise and tickle shortly after). These kinds of details are vital in expressing the wide spectrum of emotions someone feels when they're truly in love.

Scarface (1983)

Directed by: Brian De Palma
Written by: Oliver Stone
Starring: Al Pacino & Michelle Pfeiffer
Genre: Crime

It all started when Al moved to Miami to a place called Freedom Town when he was released from prison. He started selling drugs right away, killing anyone that stepped in his way. He wanted to have his own empire in Miami.

Another movie which involves Al Pacino committing murders similar to Scarface is Righteous Kill. He plays a cop out of control killing people who commit other bad crimes and who gets away with it, unlike Scarface where he hated police. In this movie he plays a cop alongside Robert De Nero, who everyone thought who was doing the brutal killings.

In this movie Al was playing another person someone who he is not, so it would be an alienation effect style of acting. He was playing a poor Cuban who blew up when he got into the drug game. I loved the movie. Al played the best role in this movie than any other movie I have seen him in. He was much younger and seemed so eager to be in this movie.

I would recommend people go see this movie because it's a classic, not something you can watch with the kids but a movie you can just sit back and enjoy. I don't think anyone could ever come close to making another movie like this and Al could never out act himself in another movie.

Serial Mom (1994)

Written & Directed by: John Waters
Starring: Kathleen Turner & Matthew Lillard
Genre: Comedy / Thriller

Serial Mom is a movie about a deadly female. The events kick off with this normal church family who looks like they can do no wrong but the mom is a psycho. She kills people because they don't do things the way she thinks they should be done. For instance, she killed this teenage boy because he didn't wear his seat belt while he was driving and because he dumped her daughter.

Usually the femme fatale isn't a main character, like in the old film noir movies, but she is the protagonist in this one. The reason why this works so well is because no one would suspect that the nice mom next door would be a murderer, so it ends up being both suspenseful and funny, because you'd never expect it. She tricks people into thinking she's something she's not.

I would recommend this movie to someone who like gory and twisted movies. I would also suggest you see it if you like movies that both dark and funny, two things that typically don't go together, but work here. Also, if you just like strange movies that you really didn't think could exist, see Serial Mom.

Training Day (2001)

Directed by: Antoine Fuqua
Written by: David Ayer
Starring: Denzel Washington & Ethan Hawke
Genre: Crime

Two cops, Alonzo and Jake, meet up at a cafe and after they meet they leave in the car driving around town to begin work for the day. Jake is the rookie officer and Alonzo is the veteran. As Jake goes through training to become a policeman, he slowly realizes that Alonzo isn't quite the guy he should be.

In another Denzel Washington movie, Man on Fire, he plays Creasy, a body guard for a little girl named Pita who was kidnapped. The kidnapper wants his brother that Creasy had kidnapped in exchange for the little girl's life, but the kidnapper wants Creasy's life, so he agrees. In Training Day he plays the bad guy and in Man on Fire he plays the good guy, showing that he can do both.

Training Day is similar to many film noirs because it has a bad cop as the main character. I like these movies because most cops are good guys and want to help you. But in these movies they are doing illegal activity just like other people do, which shows that you can't always expect good guys to be good.

Basic Instinct (1992)

Director: Paul Verhoeven
Writer: Joe Eszterhas
Starring: Michael Douglas & Sharon Stone
Genre: Suspense

This movie is about a book writer that is framed for murders that are happening just like in her novels. Detective Nick Curran (Michael Douglas) falls in love with the book writer (Sharon Stone), and he is charged with the murder of a former rock star. As the police try to figure out who the real killer is, the tension between Curran and the author builds.

Basically this film is about a femme fatale: how a female in the book is (probably) killing people and framing it on someone else. It's crazy because why would she kill people like she does in her books when that would so obviously lead the police right to her? The character's psychologically messed up and you want to find out what she'll do next.

I think this movie is a good movie because the plot has a good twist to it and a lot of movies really don't have that like this movie does. My opinion is I think you should watch it because the characters make it seem almost too real, like it could happen in real life. Many parts are suspenseful and get you worried about Nick, the main character, throughout.

Mr. and Mrs. smith

*Plot Tease- The movie event Mr and Mrs. Smith (Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt) kicks off when Mr. and Mrs. Smith a bored married couple both working for rival assassin companies are hired to kill each other

*Cast/Crew backtrack- Angelina Jolie was in Lara Croft Tomb Raider where she played a video game character that comes to life who fights villians to recover powerfull ancient artifacts in both movies she was fighting and they both were action packed movies

*Opinion Focus- Angelina Jolie was a femme fatale in Mr. and Mrs. smith because the movie first began portraying her as a normal house wife but in accutuality she was an an assasin workin for a big assasin company.

*Final Thoughts- I would recommend this movie definitely i liked the plot of this movie because you wouldn't expect a

(Doug Liman, 2005) husband and wife to try to kill each other.

Holes

Director: Andrew Davis, 2003


The inciting incident in Holes is when Stanley gets in trouble for stolen shoes. He goes to court and has to go to a "camp" to dig holes in the desert for an undisclosed reason.


Actors: Shia Labeouf, Sigourney Weaver, Jon Voight, Tim Blake Nelson


Shia Labeouf is also in a movie called Disturbia. This film is related because in both movies Shia is in legal trouble but saves the day when he figures out that something is wrong.

Holes compares to the Maltese Falcon because the movies are both very decitful. Stanley gets framed for stealing some shoes and has to go to a work camp. The dudes in Maltese Falcon are decived because they get the wrong falcon...nooooo.

I would not recommend Maltese Falcon unless your old and want flasbacks of how dull and boring your life used be. If you like an absolutly pointless plot then go for this movie. Holes is a good movie for younger people. Theres no profanity but keeps your interest.

Paranormal Activity

Paranormal Activity is about a demean that hunts the home owner wife. Very deem lighting thought out most of the movie. Its nerve racking and thrilling.

I think this has some similarity in lighting since to Maltese Falcon. Not so much the story line. It must have took a lot of time and effort to pull off the senses in Paranormal Activity.

Paranormal Activity for me was a pretty good movie. It kept me on my toes, waiting to see what happens next. PA had a high growth rate in the first week. It was a good movie to bring your date to.

Maltese Falcon was a classic, kind of hard to tie it to another movie. But if I had to it would have to be a 007 movie. Just because they are both agents well at least somewhat.