The Notebook (2004)
Behind every great love is a great story.
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InformationRachel as: Allie |
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Plot Outline: The movie focuses on an old man reading a story to an old woman in a nursing home. The story he reads follows two young lovers named Allie Hamilton and Noah Calhoun, who meet one evening at a carnival. But they are separated by Allie’s parents who dissaprove of Noah’s unwealthy family, and move Allie away. After waiting for Noah to write her for several years, Allie meets and gets engaged to a handsome young soldier named Lon. Allie, then, with her love for Noah still alive, stops by Noah’s 200-year-old home that he restored for her, “to see if he’s okay”. It is evident that they still have feelings for each other, and Allie has to choose between her fiancé and her first love.
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Production Process
“The Notebook” was filmed in South Carolina, Carolina and Québec.
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Triva & Facts
• Other actresses besides Rachel who are rumored to have been under consideration for the role of Allie included Ashley Judd , Britney Spears and Reese Witherspoon.
• Rachel auditioned for the role during another movie’s premiere. She was given the script just a day in advance. She beat nine other actresses for the role. The scenes used during her audition included the one of Allie’s and Noah’s argument at the end after Allie and her mother return from their morning drive.
• Rachel and Ryan Gosling were both born in London, Ontario, Canada.
• Rachel was (one of the last) actresses who auditioned for Allie; she was in town for another project and read the script the evening before she auditioned.
• Channing Tatum (Step Up, Dear John), Teresa Palmer (I Am Number Four, December Boys) and Mark Wahlberg (The Figther, The Lovely Bones) all picked “The Notebook” as their favorite romantic movie when NextMovie asked them.
• The Notebook was filmed before Mean Girls but was released in theaters after.
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Character Quotes
Allie: What happens if a car comes?
Noah: We die.
Allie: Why didn’t you write me? Why? It wasn’t over for me, I waited for you for seven years. But now it’s too late.
Noah: I wrote you 365 letters. I wrote you everyday for a year.
Noah: What am I gonna do in New York?
Allie: …Be with me.
Allie: Now, say you’re a bird.
Noah: If you’re a bird, I’m a bird.
Allie: It was real, wasn’t it? You and me. Such a long time ago, we were just a couple of kids. But we really loved each other, didn’t we?
Quotes from Rachel
“It was very intense and I was very tired but Nick and I both knew that I needed to get to that point where I was out of my head and totally in my body, totally in this life of this wild child that Allie is and it sort of took those extremes and took being pushed and not knowing what I was doing all the time but trusting him and vice versa. It was quite an experience and I would do it all over again.”
-On the emotional proportion (CineCon)
“Yeah, of course. And even Ryan, he’s been working for a long time. And Sam Shepard, I studied in school, so to go from this academic sort of adoring him from a far to standing in the mud in Charleston with him and say, ‘Okay, this is going to be my boyfriend’s dad,’ so to speak, and then you get over that and you find that they heighten your acting. ”
-On working with established actors (Canoe)
“Ryan and I didn’t know each other too well, so you get to have that little piece of newness, getting to know each other and all those other ‘newnesses’ come along with it, so as strange as movie making is, doing love scenes for the first time with someone you’ve never even said hello to, does work in terms of having a fresh quality to a relationship.”
-On creating chemistry between Ryan and herself (Dark Horizon)
“We auditioned together, yes, and that was impressive to me when Lynn Harris, the producer, told me that Ryan and Nick had been on a tour of the country looking for Allie Hamilton. That impressed me, first, when I talked to her, and then to go in… They were both very open and, “No pressure, we’ll just take it slow.” They were really tough scenes and we just went from there. It was great to have him there.”
-On her audition with Ryan (About)
Quotes from Cast & Crew
“All I knew was that [Rachel] was a force to be reckoned with. How was I going to reckon with it, I had no idea. She’s not someone you can ever dismiss or out into any category. She’s many things.”
-Ryan Gosling, co-star (W Magazine)
“She was inspiring. You know, she’s just like Allie in the movie: She laughs like that, she talks like that. She’s elated one minute and devastated the next. She’s a very real person. You tend to forget what real people are in this business but she was a jolt of reality, you know?”
-Ryan Gosling, co-star (Unknown)
“I think Rachel is really – she’s got chops, ya know. What’s interesting is that I really don’t think we would have made the film if we hadn’t found Rachel. Really this is Rachel’s movie. If this is a car, she’s driving it and we’re in it. So it all, for me, depended on finding somebody that could do that and also play a young Gena [Rowlands] because Gena’s probably one of the best actors ever, so it’s kind of tricky.”
-Ryan Gosling, co-star (Unknown)
“Rachel’s fun as hell. She’s a great person to be around. [She'd] do a heart-wrenching scene with Joan Allen screaming at each other and then yell cut and she’s off making jokes and having a good time on the set. She’s a true talent and she’s really amazing. She’s gives a pretty head-turning performance in this and she was put to the test on this with some of the best actors around. She really had to carry the emotional cargo in this, she carried most of the emotional load of this movie. And she makes it work and Ryan makes it work too [with their] relationship. You gotta believe that those two are James Garner and Gena Rowlands in love at the end of the movie.”
-James Marsden, co-star (IGN)
Critical Reception
“The filmmakers got it right when they chose Gosling, McAdams, Marsden, James Garner and Gena Rowlands. Each of these actors is pitch-perfect. Each brings a freshness to these characters. Even though we’ve seen the same types of characters before, these actors makes them feel interesting and unique.”
-Rebecca Murray (About)
“These snippets of scenes between Garner and Rowlands are nice and sweet, but the investment in Gosling and McAdams is what makes them pay off in the end.”
-Bill Beyrer (CinemaBlend)
“Ms. McAdams, who played the alpha queen in ”Mean Girls,” matches Mr. Gosling’s Noah in idiosyncratic verve. Impulsive, giggly and combative, she exudes the air of a careless rich girl bursting out of a bubble.”
-Stephen Holden (New York Times)
Promotion Tour
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