“I love period work because it really makes you search and exert yourself,” he adds.īuras has had lots of experience with women’s ’40s hairdos, and techniques such as finger waves, and flat-head crowns. “I like to work with the costume designer to try and create a total look,” says hair stylist Buras, who enhanced Wagner’s costumes with complementary stylings. For Gosling’s lower-class character she was inspired by the frugal tradition of sewing men’s shirts from calico-patterned bags made to carry feed and serving a double purpose.Īs for the character of the aged Allie played by Gena Rowlands in a contemporary setting, “I was trying to convey the sense that even though she had lost her memory she was still a classy person,” says Wagner. Wagner did research by visiting the Costume Institute at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, and going through old copies of Vogue magazine. “The mother’s clothes were cool and refined, and so were Allie’s, until she meets Noah,” says the costume designer. For the women in the earlier period-played by McAdams as Allie and by Joan Allen as her buttoned-up mother who tries to thwart the romance between her daughter and Noah, Gosling’s ardent poor-boy character-Wagner used changing color palettes to convey plot development. “I had a lot of fun setting up the characters, both in terms of the class they came from, and their emotional tones,” says Wagner. And their hair was long and piled high with soft curls-the result of hours of effort.
The two rose to the occasion, especially in recreating the earlier period, when women wore flatteringly fitted fashions on top of many layers of foundation garments. Veterans James Garner and Gena Rowlands (Cassavetes’ mother in real life) portray the same couple many decades later in a nursing home.Ĭrew members who added to the film’s distinct sense of place as the narrative jumps back and forth between the present-day pathos and the pre-World War II period when the romance first smolders include costume designer Karyn Wagner and hair stylist Milton Buras. Relative newcomers Rachel McAdams and Ryan Gosling play the young couple in love’s first throes, set in the South toward the end of the Depression era. The film moves between two time periods, tracing the full arc of a romantic relationship.
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Long after its release the movie continued to draw audiences based on strong word-of-mouth recommendations that offset the largely tepid response by reviewers.Īnd come Oscar time early next year, the film may surprise again by nabbing a few nominations, not just for some emotional star turns by the actors but for some impressive crew contributions. By early August, the film, directed by Nick Cassavetes and based on a novel by Nicholas Sparks, had grossed over $70 million domestically, more than double its $30 million budget. Holding its own in the midst of tentpole blockbusters, The Notebook, a bittersweet, traditional weeper, was one of last summer’s surprise hits.
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