Blog Post 4: Love Stories Don't Need to be Written in a lot of Books:

                 When most people think about a love story they think of the classic story of how the guy comes along and sweeps the girl off her feet and they live happily ever after. This can take many chapters as well as books to relay the story to the reader. But, this is not always the case. In the movie “Up,” it takes the art of telling a love story to the next level. Without trying to spoil it for those who haven’t seen it I will discuss how in a mere 10 to 15 minutes we see the story of a guy and girl and how their story has every key think that a love story needs, and did not take a series of books to tell.

            Like all love stories it has to start somewhere. In the movie “Up,” it starts with this little adventurous boy that hears somebody in an old broken-down house. He decides to sneak into the house to see what all the commotion is about when a tomboyish girl who has the same adventurous imagination as he does meets him. They play for what seems like an eternity when things are sped up and they are getting married. Following this the film shows significant times in their life like one being the fact that the very house they played in, the ended up buying it and fixing it up. Following this, the audience sees many other significant times in the characters’ lives some hard times and many good. In my opinion I believe the reason for the inclusion of the hard times is that it shows that even though they live “happily ever after” there is still things happening after the final curtain goes down at the end of a book. Following the bad and good times, they still are able to grow old together and have a happy life together. That is until the end of the love story. This I will not divulge due to the fact that it gives too much away. But as for the love story itself, it is something that has to bee seen to really understand. But, it does in fact have a better love story in those few short scenes than any book I have ever read. My fiancé and I both agree to this, and maybe if you too see it, then you may agree.