Favorite Fictional Couples

[GypsySorcerer]

What are some of your favorite couples from literature and/or film? I was reminded of one of my favorites Guido and Dora from Life is Beautiful, in Dani's thread about inspiration.

Satine & Christian, Moulin Rouge!
Bud & Deanie, Splendor in the Grass (I have such a sentimental attachment to this and still cry every time I see it)
Henry & Claire, The Time Traveler's Wife (book, not film)
Almasy & Katharine, The English Patient (same)
Beatrice & Benedick, Much Ado About Nothing
Zhivago & Lara, Dr. Zhivago
Robie & Francie, To Catch a Thief
Emma & Mr. Knightley, Emma
Katie & Hubbell, The Way We Were :o

[MissLadyLoki]

I'm not getting any quite off the top of my head (except for Cathy and Heathcliff from Wuthring Heights, and yeah, I'm a dork for classics :p), but I gotta agree with you on Henry and Clare. Time Traveler's Wife is probably the only true romance story I actually enjoyed and, while I found certain aspects from later on (I'm not gonna spoil it, but PM me if you wanna know) a bit odd, they were a great couple.

[GypsySorcerer]

I'm not getting any quite off the top of my head (except for Cathy and Heathcliff from Wuthring Heights, and yeah, I'm a dork for classics :p), but I gotta agree with you on Henry and Clare. Time Traveler's Wife is probably the only true romance story I actually enjoyed and, while I found certain aspects from later on (I'm not gonna spoil it, but PM me if you wanna know) a bit odd, they were a great couple.

It's definitely my favorite "love story" written in the past 10 years. I had a slight problem with the very end. But I just enjoy it so much, I choose to overlook. ;)

[MissLadyLoki]

It's definitely my favorite "love story" written in the past 10 years. I had a slight problem with the very end. But I just enjoy it so much, I chosoe to overlook. ;)

The very end, in some ways, did freak me out a bit, but other than that, a killer book, even though it took me months to read it (thank you, philosophy :rolleyes:)

[daniellaaarisen]

What are some of your favorite couples from literature and/or film? I was reminded of one of my favorites Guido and Dora from Life is Beautiful, in Dani's thread about inspiration.

Satine & Christian, Moulin Rouge!
Bud & Deanie, Splendor in the Grass (I have such a sentimental attachment to this and still cry every time I see it)
Henry & Claire, The Time Traveler's Wife (book, not film)
Almasy & Katharine, The English Patient (same)
Beatrice & Benedick, Much Ado About Nothing
Zhivago & Lara, Dr. Zhivago
Robie & Francie, To Catch a Thief
Emma & Mr. Knightley, Emma
Katie & Hubbell, The Way We Were :o

How have we never discussed The English Patient?! That is my favorite book in the universe.

All of my favorite fictional couples are in deeply tortured relationships.... which probably explains a lot about my own life, HA.

[Nikolaj]

Stevie and Lindsey!!!

Ha :)

They made it all up, never were together at all, just thought it'd make for some good songs!

[Silver Springs]

Rodolfo and Mimi: Puccini's La Bohème
Dirk Simpson and Victor Fox: Unconditional Love "I go to bed with other men, but I sleep with you"
Vada and Thomas J. - My Girl (If only!)
Beatrice & Benedick - Much Ado About Nothing
Algernon Moncrieff and Cecily Cardew - The Importance Of Being Earnest
Oberon and Titania - A Midsummer Night's Dream

[Nikolaj]

Seriously, now-
1) In 'Holiday'-- Cary Grant and Kate Hepburn were an awesome couple. I don't want to walk upstairs to see if their character names are on the DVD box, but it is an awesome and perhaps obscure film, I believe from 1938 and not a blockbuster for either of them. But they have great chemistry in it, and Grant's early circus training from his real life is on display when he does a backflip and cartwheel! Lovely movie.
2) I'll agree with the thread-starter about Katie and Hubbell in 'The Way We Wuz'
ok 'Were'

3) Scarlet and Rhett! -- with a nod to Scarlet and Mammy.
4) "Now Voyager"- the Charlotte character and the doctor character, though they weren't the actual 'real couple' in the film-- Bette Davis and Claude Raines. 'Now Voyager' is one of the best films anyone with an overbearing parent can gift themselves with by watching.
I should read more, it's been decades. It's all films for me, old films.

Oh- to the reading buffs, please, what is the big deal about 'The Fountainhead'??
The love of my life insisted I read it, decades ago, he's long dead, and I never really got the significance of why he felt it was so important I 'get it'.
Anyone? I struggled through the book twice expecting enlightenment, and only found it long and depressing. I was 21 and 22 at the time. I think 'the message' was about not letting love or anything- get in the way of accomplishing your goals.
I still wonder why he thought I so 'needed' to know and understand that book, I last saw him in '90 and he died in '94. In the 80s, he had me tell him what I was thinking as I read it, but never would tell me whether I was 'right'- he thought it was brilliantly written, I know that much.
Is there any missed by me 'meaning' of 'The Fountainhead' anyone will share with me?
I know I don't want to read it again!

[chelluversu]

Do Corey and Topanga count?? lol :o

[Nikolaj]

Bud & Deanie, Splendor in the Grass (I have such a sentimental attachment to this and still cry every time I see it)
wrote the thread starter., GypsySorcerer.

Oh, wow. That movie is a killer, Natalie Wood in the bathtub scene with the steaming hot water- ouch!
'Splendor' is beyond brilliant in showing how one person in a relationship may hold on to it, and the other person moves on. I think Wood and Beatty were amazingly good in it. Loved the actress who played the wife near the end of the movie, too. Great movie.

[tilthefirefades]

Rose and Jack :laugh: I know, kill me.

[Amlyn]

Rose and Jack :laugh: I know, kill me.

I was just thinking that as I saw the title of this thread. And it seems that movie was on half of the weekend, so you know i had to watch some of it.

[tilthefirefades]

I was just thinking that as I saw the title of this thread. And it seems that movie was on half of the weekend, so you know i had to watch some of it.

Haha of course! Every time it's on, I have to watch it :D And then cry miserably also. :o

[gretchen]

Fox Mulder & Dana Scully (X-Files)
Vincent & Catherine Chandler (Beauty & The Beast)
Patrick Jane & Theresa Lisbon (The Mentalist)
Jack O'Neill & Samantha Carter (Stargate SG-1)
Nick Knight & Natalie Lambert (Forever Knight)
Mick St. John & Beth Turner (Moonlight)
Father Ralph de Bricassart & Meggie Cleary (The Thorn Birds)
Marty Gold & Hannah Miller (Anything But Love)
Joe Fox & Kathleen Kelly (You've Got Mail)
Ike Graham & Maggie Carpenter (Runaway Bride)
Dr. Paul Flanner & Adrienne Willis (Nights In Rodanthe)
Jack T. Colton & Joan Wilder (Romancing The Stone)
Nevarre & Isabeau (Ladyhawke)

[chiliD]

Harry Burns & Sally Albright (When Harry Met Sally)
Fox Mulder & Dana Scully (X-Files)
Richard Castle & Kate Beckett (Castle)
Sam Baldwin & Annie Reed ( Sleepless In Seattle)
Seely Booth & Temperence Brennan (Bones)
Jack Hodgins & Angela Montenegro (Bones)
Michael Westin & Fiona Glennane (Burn Notice)
Brenda Leigh Johnson & Fritz Howard (The Closer)
Jimmy "the Saint" & Dagney (Things To Do In Denver When You're Dead)

[LikeAWillow]

Oh- to the reading buffs, please, what is the big deal about 'The Fountainhead'??
The love of my life insisted I read it, decades ago, he's long dead, and I never really got the significance of why he felt it was so important I 'get it'.
Anyone? I struggled through the book twice expecting enlightenment, and only found it long and depressing. I was 21 and 22 at the time. I think 'the message' was about not letting love or anything- get in the way of accomplishing your goals.
I still wonder why he thought I so 'needed' to know and understand that book, I last saw him in '90 and he died in '94. In the 80s, he had me tell him what I was thinking as I read it, but never would tell me whether I was 'right'- he thought it was brilliantly written, I know that much.
Is there any missed by me 'meaning' of 'The Fountainhead' anyone will share with me?
I know I don't want to read it again!

I have respect for anyone who doesn't understand Objectivism. No one should.

[GypsySorcerer]

How have we never discussed The English Patient?! That is my favorite book in the universe.


The ending felt just a bit empty or rushed for me, but I thought the middle especially was exquisite. I know I read Chapters 4 and 5 twice before moving on. I think I love his use of place more than anything.

[GypsySorcerer]

Oh, wow. That movie is a killer, Natalie Wood in the bathtub scene with the steaming hot water- ouch!
'Splendor' is beyond brilliant in showing how one person in a relationship may hold on to it, and the other person moves on. I think Wood and Beatty were amazingly good in it. Loved the actress who played the wife near the end of the movie, too. Great movie.

It's a little melodramatic, but that's part of the reason I adore it. For being filmed in the 60s, (and set in the 20s), it's hard to imagine teenagers not being able to relate to some of its themes.

The ending sequence is just fantastic. Natalie and Angelina (I think that was her name?) play it perfect.

[CreepingDeath]

Kermit & Miss Piggy
Elizabeth Bennett & Mr. Darcy (Pride and Prejudice)
Emma & Mr. Knightly (Emma)
Faramir & Eowyn (The Lord of the Rings, books only)
Aragorn & Arwen (The Lord of the Rings, books only)
Percy Jackson & Annabeth Chase (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, books only)
Will & Lyra (His Dark Materials)
Clarice Starling & Dr. Hannibal Lecter (Hannibal, book only)
Marius & Pandora (Vampire Chronicles)
Rita Lance & Chris Lorenzo (Silk Stalkings)
Fox Mulder & Dana Scully (X-Files)
Phillip Spaulding & Beth Raines (Guiding Light)
Billy Abbott & Victoria Newman (The Young and the Restless)

[Erin]

Phillip Spaulding & Beth Raines (Guiding Light)


I'm all about Roger and Holly when it comes to Guiding Light, but Beth and Philip got a good ending last year. My list:

Fox Mulder and Dana Scully (X-Files)
Elizabeth Bennett and Fitzwilliam Darcy (Pride and Prejudice)
Nick Knight and Natalie Lambert (Forever Knight, waves at Gretchen!)
Rhett Butler and Scarlett O'Hara (GWTW)
John Thorton and Margaret Hale (North and South- Gaskell novel and BBC miniseries)
Roger Thorpe and Holly Norris (Guiding Light)
James Ford and Juliet Burke (Lost)
Buffy Summers and Spike (BTVS)
Tim Canteburry and Dawn Tinsley (The Office BBC)

[tilthefirefades]

Billy Abbott & Victoria Newman (The Young and the Restless)

Ugh, I did not like her with Brad. So glad that went sour :nod:

[daniellaaarisen]

I forgot my favorite TV couple!

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I <3 CSI.

[london]

Jack & Sally...simply meant to be. :)

[mylittledemon]

michael keaton and michelle pfeiffer in Batman Returns

[Zombie]

Jamie & Claire Fraser (The Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon)
Buffy & Spike (BTVS)
Angel & Cordy (Angel)
Dexter & the English Titty Vampire (Dexter)
Aang & Katara (Avatar: The Last Airbender - TV series, not movie)
Elizabeth & Mr. Darcy (Pride & Prejudice)
Rhett & Scarlett (Gone With the Wind)
Anne Shirley & Gilbert Blythe (Anne of Green Gables series)
Baby & Johnny (Dirty Dancing)
Susannah & Eddie (The Dark Tower series)
Meg & Calvin (A Wrinkle in Time series)
Leia & Han (Star Wars)

:nod:

[GarboSpeaks!]

Jin & Sun (Lost)
Sid & Nancy (the movie version of the real people)
Mulder & Scully (X-Files)
Peg & Al (Married w/ Children..hey, whattya mean its not romantic?! ;))
Offred & Nick (The Handmaids Tale)
Cocteau's version of Beauty & the Beast
Just about ANY coupling Anais Nin has written about.
Isabo & Navarre (Ladyhawk)

[iamnotafraid]

Lucky Jackson & Rusty Martin
(Elvis & Ann Margaret)

Real and Fictional!
Those two should
have had children.

[gretchen]

I'm all about Roger and Holly when it comes to Guiding Light, but Beth and Philip got a good ending last year. My list:

Fox Mulder and Dana Scully (X-Files)
Elizabeth Bennett and Fitzwilliam Darcy (Pride and Prejudice)
Nick Knight and Natalie Lambert (Forever Knight, waves at Gretchen!)
Rhett Butler and Scarlett O'Hara (GWTW)
John Thorton and Margaret Hale (North and South- Gaskell novel and BBC miniseries)
Roger Thorpe and Holly Norris (Guiding Light)
James Ford and Juliet Burke (Lost)
Buffy Summers and Spike (BTVS)
Tim Canteburry and Dawn Tinsley (The Office BBC)

:wavey: back at u!

[ragrsrocalot]

Sam & Diane- Cheers :thumbsup:
Archie & Edith - All in the Family :nod:

[Kayli]

Do Corey and Topanga count?? lol :o

I'm with you! :wavey: lol I've always loved Corey and Topanga.

Hmm. On a serious note, I'm stumped. I'll have to come back to this.