So she gives up not only her blossoming career as a big-time fashion designer in New York, but also throws away her relationship with a JFK-type who is on his way to being a future president just so she can back to the crappy southern town she spent all her life trying to escape and end up as the wife of a redneck hick? What is WRONG with her?
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shareThis post is precisely why you see bumper stickers here in the South that read, "We don't give a damn how they do it up North".
The inner machinations of my mind are an enigma -- Patrick Star
This post is precisely why you see bumper stickers here in the South that read, "We don't give a damn how they do it up North".
Up north we don't have bumper stickers that say anything about the south, because we really don't care. If you didn't care and didn't have an inferiority complex, you wouldn't have bumper stickers about us.
shareUp here we don't need bumper stickers. Instead, we have an entire political/media/entertainment class that revels in its supposed superiority to their cracker cousins. They control and disseminate their message of northern superiority with a totality that renders pointless any bumper stickers.
shareYou're a perfect example of what makes us northerners ashamed of some idiotic northerners.
shareThe point the movie makes is that she ends up choosing for Jake because of the love she still felt for him. The point is that reason has nothing to do with it anymore, because she's already chosen Jake.
If it were up to me, I wouldn't have gone back to Jake. Andrew loved her and he was great to her. She had an excellent future with him and I'm sure that if she stayed with him, she would come to terms with having to give up Jake.
Perhaps it would have been easier for the audience to accept this ending if Andrew was a bit of a jerk?
Perhaps it would have been easier for the audience to accept this ending if Andrew was a bit of a jerk?I think so- but I like that they didn't turn him into the bad guy and cut out that whole Vanderbilt storyline. The Notebook had a similar plot, with the girl being caught between two guys- one poor small town guy with an attitude she loved and a rich sweet city boy she cared about. It's hard to hate either fiance, as they were really not bad at all. Makes it a bit more realistic, in my opinion..
She loved Patrick Dempsey but
She was in love with Jake. Jesus Christ it was just a MOVIE that was made for your, maybe not you, but for everyone to watch. You didn't have to like it and that's your God given right but don't bash and put down something,some place and someone you know nothing about. It's too bad that you'll be living in your parents basement for the rest of your life cause you'll miss out on the greatest experience you'll ever have. And wipe that brownS hit off your nose.
Didn't you watch to the end. They both move to NYC, He opens a glass company (guess he is a chain), I don't see why she would have to give up her career, they have a little girl. This is done thru photos but you get to see how went.
I also like the idea that both men, were decent. Life's decisions are sometimes like that. Easy when one is a scumbag, harder when they are both decent.
There are actually some mixed shots - some that look like them in the city and some back in their hometown. It's possible they live in each area at different times - like maybe in New York during the biggest fashions seasons and then back home other times of the year.
"It's better to be hated for who you are than be loved for who you aren't."
And don't forget...she was already kissing and making out with Jake while still engaged to Patrick Dempsey. the audience is supposed to feel sorry for her and root for her but she is really an unfaithful hick idiot. The only decent character was Patrick Dempsey, and he got jilted.
shareYou know, I never considered the fact that she gave up her design career for him. It's possible that she didn't, but if she did, that REALLY sucks. I'm glad that I'm not the only one also that thinks that Jake was a jerk.
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EXACTLY! I couldn't agree more. When this movie was over I was so angry! I couldn't believe it!
shareAt no time does it indicate she gave up her blossoming career... she only gave up Andrew... and your reasoning for why she should have picked Andrew (whom she obviously cared deeply for but didn't love) over Jake (whom she'd loved since she was a child) shows how shallow you are, so you probably deserve to be infuriated... there was nothing wrong with her, but... you might try looking in a mirror.
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