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Shadowlands (1993, UK)
In director Richard Attenborough's lavish romantic
biopic and tearjerker:
- the unlikely romance between C. S. "Jack" Lewis
(Anthony Hopkins) and Jewish-American poet Joy Gresham (Debra Winger)
- including Joy's gauche first appearance in a British tea room:
("Which one of you is Lewis?")
- the scene of Jack realizing that he was truly in love
with Joy during their first marriage of convenience after learning
of her terminal bone cancer: ("It's impossible. It's unthinkable.
How could Joy be my wife? I'd have to love her, wouldn't I? I'd have
to care more for her...than anyone else in this world. I'd have to
be suffering the torments of the damned. The prospect of losing her...")
- the scene in which Jack remarried Joy, this time for
love
- Joy's instructing Lewis on preparations for sex
- the scene of Lewis ordering room service
- their "honeymoon" time together during
her cancer's remission
- the scene of Joy's quiet death in bed with Jack offering
assurance: ("Don't talk, my love. Just rest...just rest" -
and after a kiss just before she died: "I love you, Joy. I love
you so much. You made me so happy. I didn't know I could be so happy.
You're the truest person I have ever known...")
- the scene of her young Narnia-loving son Douglas
(Joseph Mazzello) suddenly waking up in bed, gasping with eyes wide
as if knowing the very moment of her death
- Jack's scene of sharing tortured grief and uncontrollable
weeping with Douglas in an attic following her death: (Douglas: "I
sure would like to see her again" Jack: "Me too")
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