The novel was set in the beautiful waterfront town of New Bern, North Carolina, but The Notebook production takes place mainly in South Carolina.

Although the characters are flawed, you can’t help but root for them and their unyielding love for each other. It makes you happy and feels giddy, but it also elicits tears. The Notebook film delivers an emotional punch. Devastated by their separation, Noah writes Allie a letter for a year, only to be intercepted by Allie’s mother. Eventually, they break up, and Allie is sent to New York to focus on her studies. But her parents are against the relationship and don’t approve of him because of his much lower socioeconomic status, calling him trash. The couple spends a beautiful summer together and falls in love.

Then it brings the viewers to the night of the carnival, where Noah falls in love at first sight with Allie. He narrates the first time Noah, a local country boy, and Allie, a 17-year-old heiress, met at the carnival on June 6th, 1940. The movie starts in a modern-day nursing home when an elderly man (James Garner) reads a love story from an old notebook to an Alzheimer’s-stricken woman (Gena Rowlands). We’ve also included the popular The Notebook filming locations for fans to visit and experience and see Noah and Allie’s romantic story in a new light. If not, this guide highlights some of the best scenes in The Notebook (spoiler alert!) to give you a glimpse of the famous film. It stars Ryan Gosling as Noah and Rachel McAdams as Allie, a young couple from South Carolina who fall in love in the 1940s.Ĭhances are you’ve read the book or watched the 2004 American romantic drama adaptation of the novel. It revolves around the characters in the urgency of young, passionate romance and them as older people showing that passion and love know no age and time. The Notebook is a touching love story directed by Nick Cassavetes, based on the 1996 romantic novel by Nicholas Sparks. Architectural, American, Colonial, House, Mansions, Victorian, Restaurant, TheatresĪmericana/Anywhere America, Boat Style, Bungalow, Gothic/Victorian, Georgian/Southern, Luxury Hotel

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