{"id":9595,"date":"2018-04-10T07:00:13","date_gmt":"2018-04-10T06:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/\/?p=9595"},"modified":"2021-12-28T03:09:02","modified_gmt":"2021-12-28T03:09:02","slug":"typestuesday-separated-lovers-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/typestuesday-separated-lovers-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"Stories of Love and Loss"},"content":{"rendered":"

Types Tuesday<\/h3>\n

Power of Idealism Month<\/h4>\n

Power of Idealism characters believe that life and love should involve a grand passion. They see the world in terms of sweeping epic poetry or as a struggle of operatic proportions.<\/p>\n

Intensity of feeling (good or bad) makes this character\u2019s life worth living. Power of Idealism characters feel it is better to be in pain than to be content or complacent.<\/p>\n

\"\"These characters are willing to suffer for their art, their iconoclasm, or their noble or romantic gestures.
\nThey believe that what is perfect but unavailable or unattainable is infinitely more desirable than what is flawed but possible or achievable.<\/p>\n

“I would rather have thirty minutes of wonderful than a lifetime of nothing special.” Shelby Eatenton Latcherie (Julia Roberts) in Steel Magnolias<\/em><\/p>\n

Throughout April, we will look at epic heroes, separated lovers and those coming of age. These are dramatic characters who are passionate, intense, and will never settle for anything less than perfection.<\/p>\n

Separated Lovers<\/h4>\n

One of the three Power of Idealism kind or stories is are Separated Lovers- the romantics who are\u00a0separated from one true love.<\/p>\n

This character\u2019s love is destined not to be joined in a lasting physical union on this mortal earth. Instead, theirs is a love that transcends time, distance, age, or death.<\/p>\n

Nicholas Sparks is a pop culture master of this romance and tragedy form. His best-reviewed film,\u00a0The Notebook,<\/em> is a sweeping love story read from a faded notebook by a man to a woman in a nursing home, The story follows the lives of two North Carolina teens from very different worlds who spend a magical summer together before they are separated, first by her parents, and then by WWII.<\/p>\n

Other classic examples are:<\/p>\n

Romeo + Juliet<\/em> (Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes) is the quintessential story of star-crossed romance. The teenaged lovers from warring families take their own lives to be together in death.<\/p>\n

Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart) in Casablanca<\/em>. Rick, send his lover away to continue their separate roles
\nin the resistance movement during the most desperate days of World War II.<\/p>\n

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