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Book: Love Story (1970)
Movie: Love Story (1970)
Quotes:
"Love means never having to say you're sorry"
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Premise
movie:
"Love Story (1970) is a sentimental, romantic
tearjerker film from director Arthur Hiller about a tragic couple. The
melodramatic soap-opera, tremendously popular and a financial success
(the top-earning film of the year) but panned by critics for its sappy
content, was based upon Erich Segal's best-selling short novel of the
same name. The film's tagline, "Love means never having to say you're
sorry," appeared slightly differently in Segal's
novelization: "Love means not ever having to say you're sorry." An inferior sequel was
produced later in the decade - Oliver's Story (1978) pairing a
still-grieving Ryan O'Neal with Candice Bergen.
The catchy, haunting, piano-plinking score won the Best Original Score
Oscar (the film's sole award) for Francis Lai from its seven Academy
Awards nominations: Best Picture, Best Actor (Ryan O'Neal), Best
Supporting Actor (John Marley), Best Actress (Ali
MacGraw), Best Director (Arthur Hiller), and Best Original Story and Screenplay
(Erich Segal). Told as a flashback, this is an uncomplicated love
story between two star-crossed lovers-students, Harvard pre-law hockey
player Oliver Barrett IV (Ryan O'Neal) and Radcliffe music student
Jenny Cavilleri (Ali MacGraw). Oliver narrates the opening line of the
film, looking back: "What can you say about a twenty-five-year-old
girl who died? That she was beautiful and brilliant? That she loved
Mozart and Bach, the Beatles, and me?"
Their love triumphs over different economic-class backgrounds (he is a
"preppie millionaire," she a smart-mouthed "social zero" from a
blue-collar Italian/American family). Their main obstacle to romance
is that his rich, powerful and snobbish father, Oliver Barrett III
(Ray Milland) objects and threatens to cut off funding: "Oliver, if
you marry her now, I'll not give you the time of day." To which the
younger, bull-headed Oliver defiantly asks: "What offends you more,
Father, that she's Catholic, or poor?" He ultimately responds:
"Father, you don't know the time of day." The two young lovers marry
anyway and first move into a small apartment in Cambridge before
Oliver is hired by a New York law firm and they move to the city. The
film's two most touching and remembered scenes are their prolonged
kissing scene and the montage of the couple tossing snowballs at each
other. After meeting many obstacles and making sacrifices, she is
diagnosed as terminally ill when she is tested for pregnancy, and dies
in his arms at the hospital in a tear-inducing closing. She makes a
last request of him: "You, after all - you're going to be a merry
widower." "I won't be merry," he responds. She replies: "Yes, you will
be. I want you to be merry. You'll be merry, okay?"
from:
http://www.filmsite.org/love.html
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Premise
book:
The movie is based on a short novel by Erich Segal. Unfortunately, we
could find neither a description of the book nor a biography of Erich
Segal on the internet.
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Author:
The movie is based on a short novel by Erich Segal. Unfortunately, we
could find neither a description of the book nor a biography of Erich
Segal on the internet.
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Director:
Arthur Hiller
Cast:
Ali MacGraw (Jennifer Cavalleri), Ryan O'Neal (Oliver Barrett
IV), John Marley (Phil Cavalleri ), Ray Milland (Oliver Barrett III),
Russell Nype (Dean Thompson), Katharine Balfour (Mrs. Barrett), Sydney Walker (Dr. Shapely), Robert
Modica (Dr. Addison), Walker Daniels (Ray Stratton), Tommy Lee Jones
(Hank Simpson) and others.
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