Dear John

Dear John Trailer



Actually, I knew the book before the movie. I remembered it was in senior high school when I first met the book. At that time, I was a third-grade student who seldom had leisure time to read novels, but I was attracted by the introduction and the coverage of the novel so I didn’t have the second thought then I bought it home. I remembered it didn’t take me too long to finish the book. Before I read this novel, I always hated to read foreign novels because I thought most of them were translated so poorly that I could not understand them easily. However, after I read this novel, I found it easy for me to understand and I seldom found weird translation in it, so maybe that was the reason why I started to read foreign novels again.(http://gigifilm.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/dear_john.jpg)


The main topic of the novel was regular but by the author, it became so attractive and so touching. When I finished reading, I was so sad and hoped for another end. I just couldn’t resist the sad ending. It’s so funny that I loved tragedies so much but I also hated to see the bad endings for they always made me cry or sad.


Because of this novel, I started to know the famous author “Nicholas sparks.” And because I liked “Dear John” so much, I found all of his other books to read. After I knew some information about the author, then I knew that he was a very famous writer for love novels. Recently when I watched the American series, I even saw people reading his novels. In addition, almost every of his works was adapted into movie versions. There will be another new movie which was also adapted from his work “The Last Song” soon. (http://radioreader.net/images/Dear_John.jpg)


The movie version was a little different from the novel in some small ways, but the outline was not changed. What surprised me was when I saw the trailer at first time, I was so shocked because the man who played “John” and the woman who played “Savanna” were exactly the same as I imagined in my mind. The dispositions of the two were so suitable for the two characters, so I was so expected to see the movie. And it ended so well and I didn’t feel disappointed at all. It was so touching and at the end of the movie, I cried. I felt so sorry for John and Savanna. Maybe because love between these two people was so pure, when they couldn’t end well, people get heart-broken.


It occurred to me very late that the title of the book “Dear John” had some special meaning. Because the man’s name in the movie was “John”, it implied he would get dumped in the future. Wow, it reminded me that I would never call my son “John” because it was unlucky!
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