Favorite Fictional Couples
 

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

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. ;)

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:)

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.

Stevie and Lindsey!!!

Ha :)

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

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

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!

Do Corey and Topanga count?? lol :o

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.

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.

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

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)

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)