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Ryan Gosling is the only candidate to play Noah in the eyes of director Nick Kasawitz. Before the filming started, Ryan Gosling lived in Charleston, the filming location, for two months in order to play Noah, and personally produced the dining table in the kitchen in the film.
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Gina Rowlands, who played the elderly Ellie in the film, is the mother of director Nick Cassavitz.
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Because James Garner, who plays the old Noah, has brown eyes, the blue-eyed Ryan Gosling had to wear brown contact lenses.
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Both Britney Spears and Ashley Judd had hoped to play Ellie. Reese Witherspoon, who was originally scheduled to star in the film, later quit filming.
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Steven Spielberg and Tom Cruise refused to join the film.
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Justin Timberlake was expected to play Noah.
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Before the filming started, Ryan Gosling lived in Charleston, South Carolina for a period of time in order to play a good role; during that time, he rowed on the Ashley River every morning and learned to make furniture.
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The original script did not include Ellie's piano part; but director Nick Kassavits thought that from the 1930s to the 1940s, the ladies of the wealthy family would play the piano, so this part was added.
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Rachel McAdams came to audition for the role of Ellie in this film during the premiere of another film; she only got the script one day early; and in the subsequent audition, she defeated nine other actresses.
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Rachel McAdams and Ryan Gosling were both born in London, Ontario, Canada.
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In the original trailer of the film, the background music was taken from the soundtrack of Rachel Portman in "There is Always a Hot Sun" (1999).
The Notebook behind the scenes gags
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Extended Reading
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Carmela 2021-10-20 18:58:44
It’s nothing to do with the movie itself. I really hate this kind of storyline. It’s clear that they have broken up and each started a new life. Why do you break into each other’s world after so many years? No more partners now! Don't worry about this kind of selfish love! Either do it! Get away if you want to break up!
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Dora 2022-03-24 09:01:06
Love at first sight, promise a thousand gold, believe in a day, never leave, never forget for seven years, forever, old age with my son, passing away hand in hand...Think about it carefully, in fact, every scene in the movie is not believable, perhaps because these beautiful things cannot be true When it appears in our lives, we hope it will actually happen in the movie, which is also a kind of distant comfort.
The Notebook quotes
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Young Noah: You're gonna kill me woman! I need sleep, I need food, to regain my strength!
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Duke: They didn't agree on much. In fact they rarely agreed on anything. They fought all the time and they challenged each other everyday...
Young Noah: [Allie and Noah are fighting] Don't push me!
[Allie pushes Noah anyway]
Duke: ...But in spite their differences, they had one important thing in common, they were crazy about each other.