50 First Dates: A Love Story

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Hawaii also creates the perfect location for a love story. Mark O’Bannon guides young writers that choosing a setting is nearly as important as the story itself. He encourages people to think about the genre and the message it portrays (O’Bannon 1). Hawaii offers the perfect answer to everything screen writer Wing wanted to drive through to viewers. Hawaii is charming with white beaches, beautiful flowers, and stunning sunsets. All of these natural beauties offer the ideal equation to a heart touching love story. Although it is stereotypical, Hawaii is the perfect location to host such a unique story.
The stereotypical love story starts with a girl bumping into a guy on the street. She could spill her coffee, drop her bag, and this results in laughter. BAM! It is the start of a relationship. 50 First Dates starts much in the same matter. To start light is in coincidentally shined into Henry’s eyes and it comes from the gorgeous girl eating breakfast alone. After a little flirting they set up another breakfast date. However, not similar to other romance films, the next date results in the chef threatening Henry with the meat cleaver. Cleverly, Wing has Sandler’s character continually flirting and being mesmerized by this unique girl. The movie’s title is worked in now with the start of 50 first dates. …show more content…

There is constant slinging of jokes from one character to another like any good Sandler film. Either it came from Ula and his children. For instance, Ula has his catch phrase “Sharks are like dogs. They only bite when you touch their private parts.” Even though it is not relevant to the actual love story, it develops more jokes through the story, and shows the idiocrasy of Ula as a human being. He also gets shown up by his kids whether it be golfing, flipping off the docks, or just them calling him out on the inappropriate things he says. All of the cunning lines from the kids also add that extra outside humor to the

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