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Starring Creator/RyanGosling, Creator/GenaRowlands, James Garner and Creator/RachelMcAdams. Directed by Nick Cassavetes. TheFilmOfTheBook for ''The Notebook'', Creator/NicholasSparks' first published novel.

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Starring Creator/RyanGosling, Creator/GenaRowlands, James Garner Creator/JamesGarner and Creator/RachelMcAdams. Directed by Nick Cassavetes. TheFilmOfTheBook for ''The Notebook'', Creator/NicholasSparks' first published novel.
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** [[spoiler:When Allie's mother was younger, she was on the receiving end of this trope because her father didn't like her boyfriend for the same reasons that she doesn't like Noah being with her daughter.]]

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** [[spoiler:When When Allie's mother was younger, she was on the receiving end of this trope because her father didn't like her boyfriend for the same reasons that she doesn't like Noah being with her daughter.]]



** [[spoiler:Allie's mother reveals that she was in a similar situation where she was an upper class woman who loved a working class man. Unlike her daughter, she never married him because her father objected to their relationship.]]

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** [[spoiler:Allie's Allie's mother reveals that she was in a similar situation where she was an upper class woman who loved a working class man. Unlike her daughter, she never married him because her father objected to their relationship.]]

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* DatingWhatDaddyHates: Though the mother is more active in this trope, the parents don't like Noah being the working type.

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** [[spoiler:When Allie's mother was younger, she was on the receiving end of this trope because her father didn't like her boyfriend for the same reasons that she doesn't like Noah being with her daughter.]]



* TheHeroDies: [[spoiler:Both Noah and Allie themselves at the end.]]

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* TheHeroDies: [[spoiler:Both Noah and Allie themselves die together in their sleep at the end.]]



* InterclassRomance: Allie is upper class; Noah is working class.

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* InterclassRomance: InterclassRomance:
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Allie is upper class; Noah is working class.class.
** [[spoiler:Allie's mother reveals that she was in a similar situation where she was an upper class woman who loved a working class man. Unlike her daughter, she never married him because her father objected to their relationship.]]
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Starring Creator/RyanGosling, Gena Rowlands, James Garner and Creator/RachelMcAdams. Directed by Nick Cassavetes. TheFilmOfTheBook for ''The Notebook'', Creator/NicholasSparks' first published novel.

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Starring Creator/RyanGosling, Gena Rowlands, Creator/GenaRowlands, James Garner and Creator/RachelMcAdams. Directed by Nick Cassavetes. TheFilmOfTheBook for ''The Notebook'', Creator/NicholasSparks' first published novel.

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* AdultFear: A loved one developing Alzheimer's, to the point where they don't recognize you.



* UnlimitedWardrobe: Averted. When Noah and Allie consummate their relationship and she spends be several days at his house, she repeatedly wears the dress she wore the first day, having left everything at the hotel she was staying at.

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* UnlimitedWardrobe: Averted. When Noah and Allie consummate their relationship and she spends be the next several days at his house, she repeatedly wears the dress she wore the first day, having left everything at the hotel she was staying at.
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* UnlimitedWardrobe: Averted. When Noah and Allie consummate their relationship and she spends be several days at his house, she repeatedly wears the dress she wore the first day, having left everything at the hotel she was staying at.
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* DisposableFiance: Oh, quite disposable. Not very surprising, seeing how it's Creator/JamesMarsden

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* DisposableFiance: Oh, quite disposable. Not very surprising, seeing how it's Creator/JamesMarsdenCreator/JamesMarsden.

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* RaceForYourLove: Noah races to make up with Allie at the end of Act 1, when she moves away.



* SlapSlapKiss: Noah and Allie's relationship is very much like this, with this exact thing happening in an early scene.

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* SlapSlapKiss: TheReveal: [[spoiler:Duke and Allie are Noah and Allie's relationship Allie from the story!]] It's actually more of a reveal to Allie than it is very much like this, with this exact thing happening in an early scene.to the audience, given that they already figured out who Allie was.
* RichSuitorPoorSuitor: Lon and Noah, respectively, though both are genuinely nice guys who adore Allie.
* RomanceArc: It is a romance after all, even though Sparks will claim it's a "love story."



* SecondLove: Although he's the rare version who gets dumped for the first love when they resurface, Lon is arguably this to Allie.
* SlapSlapKiss: Noah and Allie's relationship is very much like this, with this exact thing happening in an early scene.



* RaceForYourLove: Noah races to make up with Allie at the end of Act 1, when she moves away.
* TheReveal: [[spoiler:Duke and Allie are Noah and Allie from the story!]] It's actually more of a reveal to Allie than it is to the audience, given that they already figured out who Allie was.
* RichSuitorPoorSuitor: Lon and Noah, respectively, though both are genuinely nice guys who adore Allie.
* RomanceArc: It is a romance after all, even though Sparks will claim it's a "love story."
* SecondLove: Although he's the rare version who gets dumped for the first love when they resurface, Lon is arguably this to Allie.
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* SecondLove: Although he's the rare version who gets dumped for the first love when they resurface, Lon is arguably this to Allie.
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* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: Once Allie and Noah are back together, they go at it like rabbits.
-->'''Allie:''' You gotta be kiddin' me. All this time, that's what I've been missin'? Let's do it again.

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->I am nothing special; just a common man with common thoughts, and I've led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten. But in one respect I have succeeded as gloriously as anyone who's ever lived: I've loved another with all my heart and soul; and to me, this has always been enough.

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->I am nothing special; just a common man with common thoughts, and I've led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten. But -->'''Allie:''' They fell in one respect I have succeeded as gloriously as anyone who's ever lived: I've loved another with all my heart and soul; and to me, this has always been enough.
love, didn't they?
-->'''Duke:''' Yes, they did.



* BittersweetEnding

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* CaughtInTheRain

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* CaughtInTheRainCaughtInTheRain: This happens to Noah and Allie and ultimately leads to them rekindling their love.



* TheDeterminator: Noah won't leave Allie alone until she agrees to go on a date with him. [[spoiler:Even when they're old and Allie has dementia, he's determined to spark her memory by reading her the story of how they fell in love every day]].



* HappilyMarried

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* HappilyMarriedHappilyMarried: Allie and Noah, of course, end up this way.



* RichSuitorPoorSuitor
* RomanceArc: It is a romance...

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* RichSuitorPoorSuitor
RichSuitorPoorSuitor: Lon and Noah, respectively, though both are genuinely nice guys who adore Allie.
* RomanceArc: It is a romance...romance after all, even though Sparks will claim it's a "love story."
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* RichSuitorPoorSuitor
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* SouthernGentleman: John Hamilton.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: While we know what happened to Fin, his girlfriend Sarah is never seen or heard from again.
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Starring Creator/RyanGosling, Gena Rowlands, James Garner and Creator/RachelMcAdams. Directed by Nick Cassavetes. TheFilmOfTheBook for ''The Notebook'', Nicholas Sparks' first published novel.

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Starring Creator/RyanGosling, Gena Rowlands, James Garner and Creator/RachelMcAdams. Directed by Nick Cassavetes. TheFilmOfTheBook for ''The Notebook'', Nicholas Sparks' Creator/NicholasSparks' first published novel.
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* SympatheticAdulterer: Noah and Allie cheat on their partners with each other. While Noah's relationship is more like a FriendsWithBenefits situation, Allie's fiance adores her, and she him, as she explicitly states. But it's still seen as perfectly okay that she sleeps with Noah.
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** This might be a subversion as her objections are later revealed to be a fear of her daughter repeating her mistakes.
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* [[spoiler:TheHeroDies: Both Noah and Allie themselves at the end.]]

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* [[spoiler:TheHeroDies: Both TheHeroDies: [[spoiler:Both Noah and Allie themselves at the end.]]



* [[spoiler:TogetherInDeath: Despite Alzheimer's keeping them apart, Noah and Allie manage to die together in the end.]]

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* [[spoiler:TogetherInDeath: Despite TogetherInDeath: [[spoiler:Despite Alzheimer's keeping them apart, Noah and Allie manage to die together in the end.]]
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* ScatterbrainedSenior: The Allie in the present day.
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Set in the 1940's, this is all told with a FramingDevice in the modern day by an old man telling an old woman a story from an old notebook.

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Set in the 1940's, [[TheForties 1940s]], this is all told with a FramingDevice in the modern day by an old man telling an old woman a story from an old notebook.
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Starring Creator/RyanGosling, Gena Rowlands, James Garner and Creator/RachelMcAdams. Directed by Nick Cassavetes.

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Starring Creator/RyanGosling, Gena Rowlands, James Garner and Creator/RachelMcAdams. Directed by Nick Cassavetes.
Cassavetes. TheFilmOfTheBook for ''The Notebook'', Nicholas Sparks' first published novel.
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* DisposableFiance: Oh, quite disposable.

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* DisposableFiance: Oh, quite disposable. Not very surprising, seeing how it's Creator/JamesMarsden
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* AlternativeForeignThemeSong: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5NeCwuZuT8 "Kokoro no Doa"]] is the theme song for the Japanese version.

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* AlternativeForeignThemeSong: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5NeCwuZuT8 "Kokoro no Doa"]] Doa" is the theme song for the Japanese version.
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Starring RyanGosling, GenaRowlands, JamesGarner and [[RachelMcAdams Rachel McAdams]]. Directed by NickCassavetes.

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Starring RyanGosling, GenaRowlands, JamesGarner Creator/RyanGosling, Gena Rowlands, James Garner and [[RachelMcAdams Rachel McAdams]]. Creator/RachelMcAdams. Directed by NickCassavetes.
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* InterclassRomance: Allie is upper class; Noah is working class.

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* RomanceArc
* ThrowItIn: The scene where Noah drives up and crashes into the gate of the Allie's summer manor was a fluke. They ruined a perfectly good gate, but they managed to get a great shot.

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* RomanceArc
* ThrowItIn: The scene where Noah drives up and crashes into the gate of the Allie's summer manor was
RomanceArc: It is a fluke. They ruined a perfectly good gate, but they managed to get a great shot.romance...



* WhatCouldHaveBeen: A whole scene was cut out that told the back story about the notebook itself. It's a very nice scene, but it came after the climax and added nothing that wasn't already in there.

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* FlorenceNightingaleEffect: Allie and Lon, a soldier she met as a nurse during WWII.



--> '''Allie''': WHO?! (Cue TheReveal)

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--> '''Allie''': WHO?! Who? (Cue TheReveal)
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* DisposableFiance: Oh, quite disposable.
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At best this feels more like an audience reaction trope (and I thought Noah\'s stunt was pathetic regardless of whether he was male or female). The movie itself doesn\'t make this double standard because the gender inverse scenario never occurs for judgment either way.


* DoubleStandard: A subtle one. It's hard to imagine a woman dangling from a Ferris wheel unless a man agrees to date her being depicted as anything but psychotic or at least pathetic but when Noah does this to win Allie its considered a romantic gesture (though it does seem lampshaded that they initially call out on him as crazy)
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->I am nothing special; just a common man with common thoughts, and I've led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten. But in one respect I have succeeded as gloriously as anyone who's ever lived: I've loved another with all my heart and soul; and to me, this has always been enough.

An archetypical story of the BoyMeetsGirl. They have a summer romance and are hopelessly fallen for each other. It goes to pieces as he is a working class guy and she is a socialite, with her parents not believing in their love. They split up but the love doesn't die. Seven years later, they meet up again and the sparks fly. But can they get back together again after all that happened between then and now?

Set in the 1940's, this is all told with a FramingDevice in the modern day by an old man telling an old woman a story from an old notebook.

Starring RyanGosling, GenaRowlands, JamesGarner and [[RachelMcAdams Rachel McAdams]]. Directed by NickCassavetes.

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!!''The Notebook'' provides examples of:

* AlternativeForeignThemeSong: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5NeCwuZuT8 "Kokoro no Doa"]] is the theme song for the Japanese version.
* [[ShowerOfAngst Bath of Angst]]: After Allie sees Noah again in the paper.
* BeardOfSorrow: Noah gets one at one point in the story.
* BittersweetEnding
--> '''Duke''': [[spoiler:Good night, I'll be seeing you.]]
* CaughtInTheRain
* ComfortingTheWidow: Noah also tries to comfort himself while comforting the war widow.
* DatingWhatDaddyHates: Though the mother is more active in this trope, the parents don't like Noah being the working type.
* DecemberDecemberRomance: A deleted scene outlines this exact scenario with a background couple.
* DoubleStandard: A subtle one. It's hard to imagine a woman dangling from a Ferris wheel unless a man agrees to date her being depicted as anything but psychotic or at least pathetic but when Noah does this to win Allie its considered a romantic gesture (though it does seem lampshaded that they initially call out on him as crazy)
* FallingInLoveMontage: Yes quite.
* FramingDevice: The story is told by an old man to an old lady with Alzheimer's. [[spoiler:The old couple turn out to be the couple in the story.]]
* HappilyEverAfter
--> '''Duke''': And they lived happily ever after.
--> '''Allie''': WHO?! (Cue TheReveal)
* HappilyMarried
* [[spoiler:TheHeroDies: Both Noah and Allie themselves at the end.]]
* HopelessSuitor: Lon becomes this only after Noah comes back into Allie's life.
* INeverGotAnyLetters: Textbook example. He sent 365 letters, and she got none of them because her mother was hiding them.
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: As Allie and Noah argue over whether to stay with him or return to Lon, he tells her that if she wants to be with Lon, "Go. I lost you once, I think I could do it again, if I thought that was what you really wanted."
* LoveAtFirstSight: Noah is victim of this when he first sees Allie. Allie does not suffer the same.
* LoveTriangle: Noah, Allie, and Lon in the second half of the movie.
* LoveMakesYouCrazy: "After seeing Allie that day, something inside Noah snapped. [...] Some called it a labor of love, others called it something else, but in fact, Noah had gone a little mad."
* MissingMom: Noah's mother is only mentioned in passing in a deleted scene. No other reference is made to her existence.
* MurderTheHypotenuse: [[spoiler: Lon considers (or distastefully jokes about) this option near the end of the movie. This isn't that kind of movie, however.]]
* ParentalHypocrisy: Allie's mother scoffs at Allie falling in love a day-laborer in the first act. In the third act, however, she shows Allie that she once loved a day-laborer as well, but instead married Allie's father. She still has feelings for the working man as well.
** This might be a subversion as her objections are later revealed to be a fear of her daughter repeating her mistakes.
* RejectionAffection: Allie only falls in love with Noah after rejecting him repeatedly only for him to persist.
* SlapSlapKiss: Noah and Allie's relationship is very much like this, with this exact thing happening in an early scene.
* RaceForYourLove: Noah races to make up with Allie at the end of Act 1, when she moves away.
* TheReveal: [[spoiler:Duke and Allie are Noah and Allie from the story!]] It's actually more of a reveal to Allie than it is to the audience, given that they already figured out who Allie was.
* RomanceArc
* ThrowItIn: The scene where Noah drives up and crashes into the gate of the Allie's summer manor was a fluke. They ruined a perfectly good gate, but they managed to get a great shot.
* [[spoiler:TogetherInDeath: Despite Alzheimer's keeping them apart, Noah and Allie manage to die together in the end.]]
* UnresolvedSexualTension: Noah and Allie after they reunite, especially during the dinner scene. [[spoiler: Of course, the tension is soon resolved by being CaughtInTheRain.]]
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: A whole scene was cut out that told the back story about the notebook itself. It's a very nice scene, but it came after the climax and added nothing that wasn't already in there.
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