The Notebook corrections

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The Notebook (2004) - 14 corrections

starring James Marsden, Joan Allen, Rachel McAdams, Ryan Gosling, Sam Shepard

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When Allie has come back to see Noah after all their years apart and they have just eaten he walks her to her car. As she gets in and shuts the door you can just see the top of Noah's hand pushing the door closed and in the next shot he is far away from the car with his hands at his sides. [That was Allie's hand, pulling the door shut from inside the car. Look at the ring on her finger.]

When they are at the beach the scene is a rocky beach. The film is set in North Carolina. We don't have a rocky coast in North Carolina. [The book is set in North Carolina, but the movie is set in South Carolina.]

When the older Allie comes in for tea, she is wearing a shawl over her red dress. Noah starts to walk to his side of the table and in the next shot while Noah is still walking, the shawl has vanished. [The shawl has not vanished, it is simply hanging on the back of the chair. (you can see if you look carefully).]

When the older Noah is checked out by the doctor in the nursing home, his x-rays on the wall are posted backwards. The heart should be on the opposite side. [The x-ray may have been ordered to view from posterior to anterior (from is back to his chest). In that case the doctor would have to view them the way they were shot.from back to front. This may explain why the heart was pointing in the opposite direction. (Altought unlikely, some people have a rare anatomical variation known as situs inversus. When this happens the body organs are transposed on the opposite side, like a mirror image. Interesting, but like I said not likely.).]

When Allie has returned to Noah and they are on the boat in the area with all of the swans, her hair is in a bun. Before it starts raining in the next scene, her hair only half up and curled as if it had been down all along. [Actually her hair has come down from the bun by the force of the wind and rain. It's not a mistake, merely a way to show how bad the weather is.]

(SPOILER)When the new doctor is examining Duke he refers to Allie as "Miss Hamilton", which is never explained (in the credits she is Allie Calhoun). This might be fine if he were addressing her directly (since she seems unaware of her family), but since he's talking in private to her husband, it comes across as incredibly rude. It seems a deliberate act, since who she married is a 'secret' until the end of the film. [Not neccessarily. Some old fashioned doctors call people by miss/mrs smith or whatever.] Corrected by shortdanzr

After Allie asked Noah why he didn't write, they start kissing. He carries her to the house, few seconds later his shirt is missing. [In the commentary of the alternate 2nd love scene, the editor makes mention to a scene between the doorway and the hallway where they started to remove their clothing, although they cut it out due to the MPAA.]

After Ally follows the white arrows and discovers the painting supplies, we soon see her painting half nude on the upper deck. The painting she is working on looks like a project that has been in progress for a LOT longer than the hour or two Noah was gone for breakfast. It looks almost done. [This is to show the viewers that since she's back in Noah's life, Allie has gone back to painting, which she really loves to do. As for the time, there are many talented artists that can accomplish what Ally has painted in the time allotted, and Ally is that talented and good at it.]

When Noah and Martha exit the "dream house", Allie's head does not move (she looks down all the time), nor do her lips move while she pronounces parting words to Martha. [The reason why we don't see Allie saying good night to Martha is because the camera is not on Allie but on Noah and Martha as they are going outside of the house.]

Noah Calhoun and Allie are lying on the street. The overhead traffic signal changes from red to green. Both colors change simultaneously. In reality, there is a short period of a few seconds when both directions show red. [This is not true. There are many places that the lights change at the same time.]

I keep wondering, how Ally, a heartbroken teenage girl desperately hoping to get a letter from her summer boyfriend (Noah) managed NOT to check the mail herself for a whole year. Her Mom beat her to the mailbox 365 times? [Perhaps it was just a normal ritual that Allie's mother went out to get the mail everyday. If you watch the deleted scenes you see Allie sitting inside on the couch as her mom comes in with the mail and Allie is obviously crying. She asks her mom if there are any letters and her mom says no. It's not technically a mistake.]

When Allie asks her son Edward what his name is, the lip sync is slightly off. He says, "Ed..", before his mouth starts moving. [It's his father (Garner) that says "Edmond", you can't see his mouth since he says this from off screen, but it's surely his voice. Edmond just inaudibly mouths his own name.]

In the scene were Allie is a nurse taking care of the wounded, the narrator says something like, "To Allie all the wounded men were just Noah to her or someone who had fought alongside him." How would Allie know that Noah was in the war when obviously she hasn't gotten any of his letters or had any contact with him since that one tragic night? [Allie probably just assumed that Noah had joined the Army. It is also possible that Noah had discussed with her that if there was a war, he would enlist. Whether or not she knew if Noah had joined up, she probably would have considered it as a possibility.]

In the scene where Noah enters Allie's room at the nursing home, you see the doorknob on the middle of the door like how it is on regular doors. But in rooms with memory care patients, such as Allie, doorknobs are usually high on the door or there is no doorknob on the inside so the patients cannot leave on their own. [There are entire units that are locked from the inside to deter residents from leaving the ward, but in a nursing home environment there are no resident rooms in which a resident cannot leave on their own. It is in violation of Ministry of Public Health standards regarding restraints.]