Talk:The Notebook

The behind the movie

This movie has a lot of interesting background knowledge making it come across more affective than without. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 60.240.68.173 (talk) 09:46, 13 March 2019 (UTC)

Lon Hammond lawyer in book, futures trader in film?

Every reference I find to Lon Hammond's job states that he is a "hardworking lawyer", but in the film scene of his office it strongly implies that a major part of his job was trading futures contracts, thus implying that he may be a corporate futures trader, a corporate treasurer, and/or a CFO (or whatever the 1940s equivalent title may be).

The scene clearly shows a wall-sized blackboard with a schedule of numbers arranged by Oct, Dec, Mar, May, and Jul, and the words "Charleston Cotton". Charleston Cotton futures contracts were traded on the Charleston Cotton Exchange and is the predecessor to the current ICE Cotton #2 futures contract, while Oct, Dec, Mar, May, and Jul are the traditional delivery months of that contract. This implies that the numbers on the blackboard are futures contract prices for Charleston Cotton.

These blackboards would not have been out of place at a futures exchange (specifically at the Charleston Cotton Exchange), but Lon is in his office and not at an exchange pit, which implies that he was not a broker or an exchange member. Noan and Allie implies that Lon is related to Hammond Cotton later on in the film, which given the context clues implies that Lon is trading cotton futures on behalf of Hammond Cotton. This makes sense as Hammond Cotton would benefit from hedging their cotton production using futures contracts. This is a job that usually falls to a corporate trader, treasurer, or CFO position and would've unlikely been given to a lawyer; a law education would not be useful for this type of trading.

So my question is, where does it say that Lon was a lawyer and/or why does everyone thinks he's a lawyer? Does the book say he's a lawyer? Because everything in the office scene in the film implies that he was trading futures in some sort of corporate trader/treasurer/CFO role. Eric.c.zhang (talk) 06:49, 26 August 2022 (UTC)

Requested move 2 October 2023

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: not moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) Elli (talk | contribs) 00:48, 9 October 2023 (UTC)

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The Notebook → The Notebook (2004 film) – This matter was previously discussed at Talk:The Notebook#Requested move 9 August 2015 and a year later at Talk:The Notebook#Requested move 3 September 2016. The second nomination resulted in an outcome different from the first one. Seven years later, the consensus may be tested again in view of WP:PRIMARYFILM. A tangentially related discussion (Vertigo (film) → Vertigo (1958 film)) is currently active at Talk:Vertigo (film)#Requested move 29 September 2023. — Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 00:16, 2 October 2023 (UTC)

• Oppose. The nominator has not giving a convincing reason this needs to be retested, outside of the passage of time. WP:PRIMARYFILM is not relevant here, the previous unanimous discussion found this was the primary topic for The Notebook, not The Notebook (film). --Quiz shows 02:39, 2 October 2023 (UTC)
• Oppose per WP:PRIMARYTOPIC. This film gets well over 90% of all pageviews, a number even higher than in 2016. Station1 (talk) 04:17, 2 October 2023 (UTC)
• Oppose Agreeing with the 2 comments above.-My, oh my! (Mushy Yank) 08:48, 2 October 2023 (UTC)
• Oppose. I agree that the film is the primary topic here. Aoba47 (talk) 01:52, 3 October 2023 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Netflix version

Can we source a more detailed description of the ending of the Netflix version? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 10:38, 16 October 2024 (UTC)