To say I am not a fan of this movie is putting it mildly. But lots of people love it and will be watching it this season, so here's a structure breakdown to help you get the most out of it.
Thank you for this breakdown of this story! It made me to subscribe to your material =) The Holiday is one of my favourite movies and sort of benchmark of what i'd like to create someday - an everlasting heartfelt story that becomes so symbolic and relatable that people will seek it decade after decade. I, personally, got hooked on Iris's character and her "love story" with Arthur which I think is the real jewel of the whole movie. I watched it it during the time that I WAS Iris (living the same exactly circumstances in my romantic life), and that monologue scene that she gives to Miles after he caught Maggie in cheating - about her personal experience of recovering from a broken heart - helped me to push off my own rock bottom and fimd my gumption. It moves up to this very day, every single time! And, of course, the whole "gumption" concept and parallel to the old Hollywood and old movies - such a delectable touch!
Hi Marika! It sounds like we have let kind of parallel lives! Personally I've been both Iris and Amanda in this scenario. :) Okay, I admit that much as I hate it, this movie has some kind of weird relatable power.
I've sent you an invite to the private board - looking forward to hearing what you're working on!
Is it really a final battle if she only kinda sorta admits to liking him? Did this movie resolve both storylines by showing the heroines returning to their ordinary world or describing where they would live in the future? Did it have two HEAs?
From my point of view it's an extremely lame Final Battle. Iris's Battle, which comes first, has a bit more weight, but none of it is very convincing. But there are very few romantic comedies with meaningful Final Battles - I'd struggle to name even five. That's why filmmakers have to throw in these cliches like running through the snow or racing to the airport to catch a lost love before a flight to create a false sense of something real happening.
Iris does return to her Ordinary World, with a man who is willing to cross the ocean for her. So there's that.
There is no other indication of how the couples would resolve the bi-continental living situation, except that reading between the lines, both Amanda and Miles (the LA dwellers) make enough money that commuting wouldn't be a hardship (but as well I know, the jet lag would be!). So you know—high class solutions to high class problems. And they're both self-employed in artistic professions they can realistically do anywhere. But I know this because I've lived it - I don't know how clear it is to someone who hasn't experienced it.
The HEA comes through in the last scene of family bonding, though - while I was not at all invested in either couple's relationship, bringing the little girls in at the end and giving Amanda and Iris a sisterly kind of bond gave it more genuine feeling than the rest of the movie put together.
Which is a good lesson in the power of COMBINING the HEAs of two parallel love plots!
Thank you for this breakdown of this story! It made me to subscribe to your material =) The Holiday is one of my favourite movies and sort of benchmark of what i'd like to create someday - an everlasting heartfelt story that becomes so symbolic and relatable that people will seek it decade after decade. I, personally, got hooked on Iris's character and her "love story" with Arthur which I think is the real jewel of the whole movie. I watched it it during the time that I WAS Iris (living the same exactly circumstances in my romantic life), and that monologue scene that she gives to Miles after he caught Maggie in cheating - about her personal experience of recovering from a broken heart - helped me to push off my own rock bottom and fimd my gumption. It moves up to this very day, every single time! And, of course, the whole "gumption" concept and parallel to the old Hollywood and old movies - such a delectable touch!
Hi Marika! It sounds like we have let kind of parallel lives! Personally I've been both Iris and Amanda in this scenario. :) Okay, I admit that much as I hate it, this movie has some kind of weird relatable power.
I've sent you an invite to the private board - looking forward to hearing what you're working on!
Is it really a final battle if she only kinda sorta admits to liking him? Did this movie resolve both storylines by showing the heroines returning to their ordinary world or describing where they would live in the future? Did it have two HEAs?
From my point of view it's an extremely lame Final Battle. Iris's Battle, which comes first, has a bit more weight, but none of it is very convincing. But there are very few romantic comedies with meaningful Final Battles - I'd struggle to name even five. That's why filmmakers have to throw in these cliches like running through the snow or racing to the airport to catch a lost love before a flight to create a false sense of something real happening.
Iris does return to her Ordinary World, with a man who is willing to cross the ocean for her. So there's that.
There is no other indication of how the couples would resolve the bi-continental living situation, except that reading between the lines, both Amanda and Miles (the LA dwellers) make enough money that commuting wouldn't be a hardship (but as well I know, the jet lag would be!). So you know—high class solutions to high class problems. And they're both self-employed in artistic professions they can realistically do anywhere. But I know this because I've lived it - I don't know how clear it is to someone who hasn't experienced it.
The HEA comes through in the last scene of family bonding, though - while I was not at all invested in either couple's relationship, bringing the little girls in at the end and giving Amanda and Iris a sisterly kind of bond gave it more genuine feeling than the rest of the movie put together.
Which is a good lesson in the power of COMBINING the HEAs of two parallel love plots!