My favorite movie of all time is a Walk To Remember directed by Adam Shankman. I have seen plenty of chick flick dramas, but there was something about this film that made it unforgettable. The storyline involves two main protagonists, Landon Carter (Shane West), and Jamie Sullivan (Many Moore) they are completely different. Landon was the popular kid; but he was involved in an accident and was forced to participate in after school programming, including the lead role of a play. While on the other hand, Jamie is the reverend’s daughter and is highly motivated, she also has the lead role in the play. Landon eventually develops feelings for her; he gave up his popular lifestyle and wanted to spend every minute with Jamie. They fall in love. Until, the secret is revealed, Jamie has leukemia and there is nothing that either one of them can do to stop it. That is when Landon and Jamie realize the true meaning of love and fate. Shankman uses costume choice as an effective visual rhetoric throughout A Walk To Remember. Landon was the popular guy at high school; he dressed in jeans, and cut off shirts. He did not care what he looked like as long as he had that” I’m to good for you style.” Jamie dressed very reserved, she rarely had skin showing, wore turtlenecks, high socks, hair always perfect, and that nice girl attitude. One night Landon took Jamie out, Jamie was wearing what she always wears, and Landon put on a nice collared shirt and nice pants. This is when the started falling for each other, Jamie saw something in Landon she had never seen before. Throughout the film as we see Landon’s character change his attire does as well, he begins to dress nice, and care more, this is when Jamie really begging’s to notice him. Like many other chick flicks, this movie is about love, but a deeper less cliché love. The love that Landon and Jamie share is shaped off respect and values. Forgiveness, and miracles. Jamie never thought she was going to get married, she was dying from leukemia, how could she? Then she thought about god, “maybe god has bigger plans for me that I had for myself” A Walk To Remember is about never giving up, love is uncontrollable, let it happened.
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After learning about visual rhetoric in this class it really is interesting to see how it effects the audience. You are very right about the clothing choice and that it does play an important role in this film. This about how less exciting and powerful the film would be if Lansdon wore button ups and his shirt tucked in? It just wouldn’t work?!? Not even the same meaning would be conveyed! This is a good example because it really does go to show that this stuff matters. It is also a great physical representation of how his character evolved which is also important to notice throughout the movie. Great job on pointing this one out!
Costume- an interesting choice when picking out visual rhetoric! But the way you describe it, it totally makes sense, and I can really get the idea of how important this is to the message of the movie. I have seen the movie before but I don’t think I ever really noticed the significance of Landon’s costume change. I guess the director just put it in the movie in such a good way that it flowed and did not really stand out to me. After reading what you said though, I really want to go back and watch the movie while keeping these things in mind. Plus it’s always a good movie to catch up on 🙂
Nice synopsis of the movie! I too enjoyed watching this! It gets pretty emotional and at times, cliche, but it’s still a good romantic comedy! My favorite part is when Jamie says she wants to be in two places at once and Landon takes her to the border and has her stand in two states at one time. That part was cute. It was definitely a creative scene. I think that the combination of the incredible cute and romantic scenes mixed with intense scenes like Landon getting mad and going to his dad’s house to cry, make this movie especially emotional and touching.