Now tell me: Why would Allie choose Noah over Lon? “In spite of everything, I love you,” he says. “But I don’t want to convince my fiancée that she should be with me.” Meanwhile, Lon doesn’t raise his voice after learning of Allie's infidelity. "You tell me when I’m being an arrogant (S.O.B.) and I tell you when you’re being a pain in the (butt), which you are 99% of the time!” Noah shouts at her. That's before Noah starts yelling “What do you want?!” at her, and promising a future filled with fights. What Allie needs to do is visit Noah, sleep with him and swoon over him.
“Take your time," Lon says, comfortingly. By the way, Lon is rich, which is depicted as a character flaw.Īfter they get engaged and Allie sees Noah’s photo in the paper, she tells Lon she must take care of something. They embark on a relationship filled with mutual respect, admiration and fondness for one another.
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While Allie is at college, Noah-less, she volunteers as a nurse's aide and meets Lon (played by James Marsden), a charming man in a full body cast. Once Lon (miraculously) heals, Allie accepts his offer to go dancing without being threatened to do so. In fact, they rarely agreed on anything.”Ĭan we all agree that this is unhealthy? And, frankly, just bad storytelling? Lon should be the hero of the story instead he's the barrier In Allie’s titular notebook (from which this story is told via flashback with Gena Rowlands and James Garner as the elder Allie and Noah), she writes: “They didn’t agree on much. Noah writes Allie letters for 365 days in a row that go unanswered, and in the years that follow, makes no friends and decides that the single thing he should do with his life is restore a house for a girl he can't stand. The closest thing they have to a real conversation is an inane chat about how if one if them had been a bird in another life, naturally, the other would’ve been, too. Noah and Allie spend a summer making out, yelling at each other for being annoying and learning that they have nothing in common.
Noah and Allie don't actually like each other when they're not sucking face But the leads are so distractingly handsome, I didn't notice before. This is garbage that doesn't show how real, compatible humans fall in love. She laughs, because, ha, they nearly died.
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When they finally do get together, Allie opens up about her "strict schedule" of tutoring and music lessons, and Noah makes her feel insecure about not being as "free" as he believed. He convinces her to loosen up, to "learn how to trust," and to lie on the street with him until they’re both almost run over by a car. Once Allie and Noah get to talking, he insults her How do I despise The Notebook? Let me count the ways. Reader, I finally realized that “The Notebook” is a dangerous dumpster fire. I am embarrassed that I fell for a tale about a stalker who likes the way a girl looks on a carnival ride, and so he spends the rest of his life pining for her, despite not appreciating anything else about her. The Nicholas Sparks adaptation, a 1940s-set romance starring Rachel McAdams and Ryan Gosling as summer lovers with family income discrepancies, would go on to inspire my MySpace wallpaper, top my “favorite movies” list and become required viewing for my confused high-school boyfriends.Īhead of the drama's 15th anniversary on June 25, I decided to revisit the sob story now that I’m a less-hormonal 30. I was alive!Īnd I was thereafter obsessed with the movie.
They were proof that I didn’t just tear up I cried so hard at "The Notebook." I felt invigorated, impassioned. I was a teenager so proud of the mascara stains that trailed my cheeks. Watch Video: Nicholas Sparks' 3 craziest plot twists