15 Cheesy Details We Still Love About 'The Notebook'

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Ryan Gosling built the kitchen table in the movie for his Noah role.

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Ryan Gosling prepared for his role by living in Charleston, South Carolina. For two months, he rowed the Ashley River daily and built furniture during the day.

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Director Nick Cassavetes staged an intervention to fix the leads' issues. They aired their complaints and fixed their differences, becoming a real-life couple for some time.

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Gena Rowlands played older Allie and is Nick Cassavetes' mother.

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When the young Allie and Noah start, they wear the same colors the older versions wore at the film's start. This signals who the older versions were.

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The "after 7 years" scenes of Allie and Noah were shot first. The crew and cast then took a Christmas break. Ryan Gosling lost the beard and 20 pounds from the older Noah before returning as the young Noah.

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The pictures of older Allie and Noah across the years are actual photos of Gena Rowlands and her husband John Cassavetes. James Garner's face was photoshopped onto John's.

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The scene where Noah drives up and hits Allie's manor gate was accidental. They damaged a good gate but got a great shot.

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The second love scene between Noah and Allie was longer and more explicit originally. They cut it for the film to keep a PG-13 rating.

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Ryan Gosling (Young Noah) wore brown contacts because James Garner (Old Noah) has brown eyes, and Gosling has blue eyes.

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The band leader is supposed to be Cab Calloway. He was famous for call and response tunes where band members and the audience repeated his scat lyrics.

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Nick Cassavetes wanted an unknown, "not handsome" actor for Noah. He cast Ryan Gosling for the part.

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Noah and Allie listen to Billie Holiday's 1944 "I'll Be Seeing You" in 1940.

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The movie Noah, Allie, and their friends watch uses wide-screen format. Movies from the 1940s used the Academy format; wide-screen did not appear until the 1950s.

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A whole scene detailing the notebook's backstory was cut from the film.