Now, how many of them ended in some form of tragedy? Think, the Alamo, Gone With the Wind, and Romeo and Juliet. Happy endings just aren't very haunting.
2007-01-07 19:26:48 · 7 answers · asked by Free Ranger 4 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
The Graduate
On Golden Pond
Summer of '42
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Midway
Platoon
Hamburger Hill
2007-01-07 19:35:08 · answer #1 · answered by *toona* 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Absolute best love story of all time is Oscar Wilde's The Nightingale and the Rose. it is truly beautiful, brings a tear to my every time and is the epitomy of true love. The imagery is stunning. I recommend it to anyone you must read it! Wuthering Heights -Emily Bronte is a beautiful and disturbing look at love and it's impact on human emotions. Tipping the Velvet - Sarah Waters, an exploration into passion and painful wanting, also it's a lesbian story so a different take from the norm, but still very powerful. As far as the endings of love stories it depends on how well it is done. Happy endings can be successful but i generally find that tragedies are more powerful. they seem to be deeper forms of love and possible more linked to what it is like in life. If you truly fall in love with someone you are willing to lose your soul and your life for their happiness. I think that is why tragic endings are more powerful representations of love. ps one more comment romeo and juliet can actually be seen more as a story of lust then love. I mean romeo was supposedly madly in love with rosaline but then when she rejected him and he spotted juliet he totally forgot about his love for rosaline. love can not be so easily forgotten, just a quibble. War stories - full metal jacket -stanley kubrick's film -wow, powerful and haunting. HenryV -Shakespeare, stirring all into battle and Life is beautiful - sacrifice in the face of war, it's charm and innocence are fabulous.
2007-01-08 03:33:57 · answer #2 · answered by colonel 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would have to say Beauty and the Beast from when i was little, Romeo and Juliet from when i was in high school and Memoirs of a Geisha(good movie).
2007-01-08 03:34:51 · answer #3 · answered by meka g 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My uncle fought in the pacific during WW2 and the stories he told would curl your toenails but the one I remember the most had something to do with saltwater crocodiles that came in with the tide and started to eat the hidden Japanese soldiers. He said that you could hear them screaming in the night.
2007-01-08 03:51:42 · answer #4 · answered by tootsie 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
look, I'm an addict to romance. And I like the ones that end well. My fave love stories end not in tragedy.
2007-01-08 03:30:13 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
OH! OH! You forgot "Forrest Gump". It was a story about the Nam war!!! OH! OH!! And "Saving Private Ryan"!!!!
And, "The Pianist", (Man that's a good one!!)
And then, "Gone With The Wind".
(Wish I had a "Tara"!)
Love stories? Oh, I'm old. "Love Story" with Ryan O'Neal and Ali McGraw, "City Of Angels".........................The end of the 6th sense was haunting..................................
Peace to you!
2007-01-08 03:44:06 · answer #6 · answered by ditzy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wuthering heights and gone with the wind. i don't like war stories.
2007-01-08 03:36:31 · answer #7 · answered by **** if i know 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋