Click to see full answer In respect to this, how old was Rachel McAdams in the notebook? McAdams was 26 at the time, 8 years older than her counterpart, Lindsay Lohan, who was supposed to be the same age in the movie. Subsequently, question is, is the notebook based on a true story? The movie is based on a true story. Yup, there's a real life Noah and Allie. Nicholas Spark's book is based on his ex-wife Cathy's grandparents.
The couple was together for 60 years and Nichola's ex was very close to them. Billy and Dolly Grimes' romantic deaths have been compared to the The Notebook - the hit film starring Ryan Gosling. In the film, an elderly man, 'Duke' played by James Garner , is seen reading a story to a dementia-suffering woman, Allie played by Gena Rowlands.
There is no mention of them committing suicide. The whole premise of the end of the film is that Allie remembered everything and that she and Noah died together at the same time because their love was so strong. They didn't commit suicide and there was no medical problem, it was just a miracle. Warner Bros.
Netflix has had a busy morning. After the confusion over a "new ending" of The Notebook made waves on social media, Netflix issued an official statement via its U. Twitter account, which explains that the streaming company did not splice the movie together to form a new ending. While To All the Boys premieres on Feb. After the war, Noah goes back to Seabrook, where the story begins, and Allie becomes engaged to Lon Hammond James Marsden after meeting him while volunteering as a nurse.
Lon is the perfect choice for Allie because he has money and her parents approve of his class. Ryan wore brown contacts for filming. Since older Noah was portrayed by James Garner and he had brown eyes, Ryan had to wear brown contacts to cover up his blue eyes. The movie was filmed in reverse. Ryan then had to lose 20 pounds of muscle during his Christmas vacation and shave off his older Noah beard to transform into the younger, fresh-faced Noah who wooed Allie on the ferris wheel.
Older Allie was played by the director's mom. Nick Cassavetes' mother, Gena Rowlands, stepped in to play the older version of Allie at the end of the movie. The famous boat scene almost didn't have birds. You know the scene we're talking about — where Noah and Allie go out on the lake for a romantic boat ride and gorgeous birds surround them? Well, producers at New Line Cinema said that getting those birds to stay on the lake wouldn't be possible.
But instead of giving in to the producer's pressure to cut the scene, director Nick Cassavetes found himself some hatchlings and raised them beside the lake so that when it came time to film, they'd feel comfortable on the lake. And obviously it worked! THAT'S dedication. Justin Timberlake and Britney Spears were considered for the lead roles. In which case the movie would have looked more like this:. Jessica Biel also auditioned for Allie and she was covered in blood.
Ryan Gosling improvised that iconic, passionate line at the end of the movie. You know when Noah confronts Allie at the end of the movie and forces her to come to terms with what she really wants, shouting, "What do you want! What do you want? Because he's that good. Ryan Gosling built the table in the dinner scene. Ryan decided to go method for his role as Noah and spent two months doing Noah things, like living in Charleston, South Carolina and building furniture.
It was nice the set designer featured some of his hard work in the film. Rachel did the same and took etiquette and took ballet classes for the film. Kobe Bryant once gifted his wife a dress from the film for Valentine's Day.
In at the late basketball player's memorial, his wife Vanessa Bryant recalled him hunting down the blue dress Rachel McAdams wore in the iconic kiss scene.
Martin Campbell entered negotiations to direct in March , before he was replaced by Nick Cassavetes a year later. Cassavetes wanted someone unknown and "not handsome" to portray Noah; therefore, he cast Ryan Gosling in the role. Gosling was initially surprised by this: "I read [the script] and I thought, 'He's crazy.
I couldn't be more wrong for this movie. During two months, he rowed the Ashley River and made furniture. A nationwide search was conducted to find the right actress to play Allie. On casting her, Cassavetes said: "When Rachel McAdams came in and read, it was apparent that she was the one.
She and Ryan had great chemistry between them. I read the script and went into the audition just two days later. It was a good way to do it, because I was very full of the story. Really, Allie drives the movie. It's her movie and we're in it. It all kind of depended on an actress. McAdams spent time in Charleston before filming to familiarize herself with the surroundings, and took ballet and etiquette classes. She had a dialect coach to learn the southern accent. The Notebook was filmed almost entirely on location in South Carolina, in late and early Much of the film's plot takes place in and around Seabrook Island, an actual town which is one of the South Carolina "sea islands.
However, none of the filming took place in the Seabrook area. The house that Noah is seen fixing up is a private residence at Wadmalaw Island, South Carolina, which is another "sea island" locality situated 10 miles closer to Charleston. The house was not actually in a dilapidated state at any time, but it was made to look that way by special effects in the first half of the film.
Contrary to the suggestion in the film's dialogue, neither the house nor the Seabrook area was home to South Carolina Revolutionary hero Francis Marion, whose plantation was actually located some distance northwest of Charleston. The Boone Hall Plantation served as Allie's summer house. Many of the scenes set in Seabrook were filmed in the town of Mt. Pleasant, a suburb of Charleston. Others were filmed in Charleston and in Edisto Island.
The lake scenes were filmed at Cypress Gardens in Moncks Corner, South Carolina with trained birds that were brought in from elsewhere. The college depicted briefly in the film is identified in the film as Sarah Lawrence College, but the campus that is seen is actually the College of Charleston. It is the 14th highest-grossing romantic drama film of all time. The performances of Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams, as well as their on-screen chemistry, were particularly praised by most film critics.
The Notebook received a mixed reaction from film critics. At Metacritic, which assigns an average rating out of to reviews from mainstream critics, the film currently holds an average score of 53, based on 34 reviews, which indicates "mixed or average reviews. Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times praised the film, awarding it with three-and-a-half stars out of four, calling the photography "striking in its rich, saturated effects" and stating that the "actors are blessed by good material.
Stephen Holden of The New York Times gave the film a positive review, stating that "the scenes between the young lovers confronting adult authority have the same seething tension and lurking hysteria that the young Warren Beatty and Natalie Wood brought more than 40 years ago to their roles in Splendor in the Grass.
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