Favorite Fictional Couples

GypsySorcerer · #1 09-06-2010, 06:55 PM

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

MissLadyLoki · #2 09-06-2010, 07:09 PM

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

), 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 · #3 09-06-2010, 08:13 PM

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Originally Posted by 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

), 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 · #4 09-06-2010, 08:14 PM

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Originally Posted by GypsySorcerer

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

)

daniellaaarisen · #5 09-06-2010, 08:31 PM

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Originally Posted by 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

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 · #6 09-06-2010, 08:41 PM

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 · #7 09-06-2010, 08:44 PM

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 · #8 09-06-2010, 08:57 PM

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 · #9 09-06-2010, 09:15 PM

Do Corey and Topanga count?? lol

Nikolaj · #10 09-06-2010, 09:21 PM

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 · #11 09-06-2010, 09:44 PM

Rose and Jack

I know, kill me.

Amlyn · #12 09-06-2010, 10:01 PM

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Rose and Jack

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 · #13 09-07-2010, 03:13 AM

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Originally Posted by Amlyn

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

And then cry miserably also.

gretchen · #14 09-07-2010, 10:23 AM

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 · #15 09-07-2010, 10:40 AM

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)