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Bridges
of Madison County
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Quotes
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Movie
| Book
| Author
| Director
& cast
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Book: Bridges of Madison County (1992)
Movie: Bridges of Madison County (1995)
Quotes:
"I had thoughts about him I hardly knew what to do with and he read
every one. Whatever I felt, whatever I wanted, he gave himself up to.
I knew that moment everything I knew to be true about myself was gone.
I was acting like another woman yet I was more myself than ever
before."
"Love won't obey our expectations. It's mystery is pure and absolute."
"This kind of certainty comes but
once in a lifetime."
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Premise
movie:
"The path of
Francesca Johnson's future seems destined
when an unexpected fork in the road causes her to question everything
she had come to expect from life. While her husband and children are
away at the Iowa state fair in the Summer of 1965, Robert Kincaid
happens upon the Johnson farm and asks Francesca for directions to
Rosamunde Bridge. He explains that he is on assignment from National
Geographic magazine to photograph the bridges of Madison County. She
agrees to show him to the bridges and thus begins the bittersweet and
all-too-brief romance of her life. Through the pain of separation from
her secret love and the stark isolation she feels as the details of
her life consume her, she writes down the story of this four-day love
affair in a 3-volume diary. The diary is found by her children among
her possessions and alongside Robert Kincaid's possessions after
Francesca is dead. The message they take from the diaries is one of
hope that they will do what is necessary to find happiness in their
lives -- whatever is necessary. After learning that Robert Kincaid's
cremated remains were scattered off Rosamunde Bridge and that their
mother requested a similar disposition for her own ashes, the children
must decide whether to honor their mother's final wishes or bury her
alongside their father as the family had planned. Adapted from the
novel by Robert Waller, this is the story of love that happens just
once in a lifetime -- if you're lucky."
from:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112579/plotsummary
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Premise
book:
"When Robert Kincaid drives through the heat and dust of
an Iowa summer and turns into Francesca Johnson's farm lane looking
for directions, the world-class photographer and the Iowa farm wife
are joined in an experience of uncommon truth and stunning beauty that
will haunt them forever. The romantic classic of the 1990's."
from:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/
0446364495/103-9612205-2891816
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Author:
"Guitar-picker, photographer, ex-business school professor,
and author of the best-selling hardcover of all time--meet Robert
James Waller. In 1992 Warner Books published his first novel, The
Bridges of Madison County, which spent almost 150 weeks on the New
York Times bestseller list. Waller says he writes about "ordinary
people, the kind you meet in a checkout line at the hardware store,"
and about those certain moments in which "the ordinary can take on
rather extraordinary qualities." In his spare, straightforward
stories, men and women struggle with love, hope, disappointment,
responsibility -- everyday issues which touch us all -- all rendered
at once both profound and intimate through prose of unaffected, moving
simplicity."
from:
http://www.madisoncounty.com/novel.html
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Director:
Clint Eastwood
Cast:
Clint Eastwood (Robert Kincaid), Meryl Streep (Francesca
Johnson), Annie Corley (Caroline), Victor Slezak (Michael Johnson),
Jim Haynie (Richard Johnson), Sarah Kathryn Schmitt (Young Carolyn),
Christopher Kroon (Young Michael), Phyllis Lyons (Betty), Debra Monk
(Madge) and others.
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