movie I'd like the most, because the story is about a the teen-aged romantic drama
that is based on the romance novel of Nicholas Sparks. The movie was so inspirational
and touching that everyone could appreciate. Even the girl dies in that movie, the boy
still didn't change for his love to the girl, and believes that their love is like a Wind,
he can't SEE it, but he can FEEL it.
Plot
When a prank on fellow high-school student Clay Gephardt goes wrong, popular but rebellious Landon Carter (Shane West) is threatened with expulsion. His punishment is mandatory participation in various after-school activities, such as the drama club, where he is forced to interact with quiet, kind and bookish Jamie Sullivan (Mandy Moore), a girl he has known for many years but to whom he has rarely ever spoken. Their differing social statures leave them worlds apart, despite their close physical proximity.
When Landon has trouble learning his lines he asks Jamie for help. They begin practicing
together at her house after school. At first Landon is only using Jamie for her help with the play, and
treats her coldly when his other friends are around. But as he spends more and more time with her, he is surprised to find she is far from the person he thought she was, and begins to question who he really wants
to impress.
In the final stretch of the movie, Jamie confesses to Landon that she is afflicted by terminal
leukemia and has stopped responding to treatments. Landon gets upset at first, and Jamie tells him the
reason she didn't tell him is that she was moving on with her life and using the time she had left but then
Landon happened and she fell in love with him.
Jamie's cancer gets worse, her father rushes her to the hospital where he meets Landon. Landon doesn't leave Jamie's side until her father practically has to pry him away. Jamie's father sits with Jamie
and tells her that "If I've kept you too close, it's because I want to keep you longer."
Soon, word gets out about Jamie's illness. Eric, Landon's best friend, comes and tells him
how sorry he is and that he didn't understand. Other friends come and apologize too.
Four years later, Landon visits Jamie's father and shows that he is still a better person because
of Jamie by informing her father that he has been accepted into medical school; prior to falling in love with Jamie, he had no plans for his future after high school. Jamie's father tells him that both he and his mother are proud of him and that Jamie would be too. Landon tells him that he's sorry he never granted Jamie's wish to witness a miracle. Jamie's father tells him that she did in fact witness one: it was him. Carrying that thought, Landon goes for a walk on the docks where he narrates saying that Jamie changed him forever and that while he misses her, he believes their love is like the wind. He can't see it, but he can feel it . The movie ends with Landon, looking at the sunset, smiling.
Trivia
☺ The movie was shot in North Carolina; many of the sets were from the TV show Dawson's Creek - particularly the school, hospital and Landon's home.
☺ The pictures of Jamie on the mantle of the fireplace in the Sullivan house are real pictures of Mandy Moore when she was a little girl.
☺ Shane West loved the car that he had in the movie so much, that he bought the car for only $5,000.
☺ When Jamie gives Landon her mother's book she says "Don't worry, it's not a Bible". In the novel by Nicholas Sparks, Jamie does give him her mother's Bible which has her favorite passages underlined.
~ RIZA CARTON~
