Passage of time
One of the things that I liked about the The Wedding Singer (#ad) movie was the way that it handled the passage of time. It was able to make the events that transpired seem realistic and believable because of the way that it showed the audience how much time passed.
How long should depression last?
For instance, Robbie Hart (played by Adam Sandler), the title character, was very depressed when his fiancée, Linda (played by Angela Featherstone), didn’t show up at their wedding. As a result, he didn’t act like his usual self for quite a while. And that’s a good thing because this makes the story seem believable and realistic.It’s great that Robbie didn’t suddenly get over his depression and his misery at having Linda leave him. Instead, it took him several days before he started being his usual self again. Even then, there were still traces of how he felt when the incident in question happened.
The Wedding Singer has a believable love story
Another thing that makes this film commendable in terms of the passage of time was how Robbie and Julia Sullivan (played by Drew Barrymore), the main female character, didn’t suddenly fall in love with each other.
Instead, this happened gradually. They started out as friends, and, as they got to know each other, they became closer until they really started falling in love.
That made their romance believable and realistic because Robbie was still trying to get over his failed relationship with Linda so it wouldn’t be right for him to just suddenly fall for someone else so soon after he’d just been dumped.
As for Julia, she was currently engaged to this guy named Glenn Gulia (played by Matthew Glave) so it wouldn’t be right for her to suddenly fall in love with someone else.
After all, why else would she agree to marry Glenn if she didn’t have feelings for him, right? So it was important to show how Robbie was slowly getting over Linda and how Julia was slowly falling out of love for Glenn before the 2 of them could end up together.
*Notes:
- Image with added text was modified by Freya Yuki based on the image by Rusembell (CC:BY) from deviantArt
- Image is meant to represent the 2 main characters in The Wedding Singer movie, Robbie and Julia
- Second pic is from Amazon.com; link shown above
- YouTube video features a scene from the aforementioned film
- This was previously published elsewhere