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Shadowlands
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Shadowlands is a 1993 drama film directed by Richard Attenborough, starring Anthony Hopkins and Debra Winger. It was adapted from the 1985 teleplay starring Joss Ackland and subsequent stage play of the same name starring Nigel Hawthorne by William Nicholson.The story is based on the real-life relationship between the English writer and professor C. S. Lewis (Jack, as he is known to his friends) and the American poet Joy Gresham (née Davidman).Not to be confused with a film of the same name (which also covered Lewis' relationship with his wife) from 1985, the 1992 computer role-playing game, or the 2020 World of Warcraft expansion. | |
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SnarkKnight | |
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Snark Knight: Joy is this, although she softens a little over the course of the film. | |
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Artistic Licence – History: By time of his marriage to Joy Davidman, Lewis was teaching at Magdalene College, Cambridge rather than Magdalen College, Oxford. Joy Davidman had two sons, Douglas and David. | |
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No Celebrities Were Harmed | |
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No Celebrities Were Harmed: Jack's fellow academic Christopher Riley is a loose stand-in Composite Character for the rest of The Inklings, his social circle of creative minds including J. R. R. Tolkien, Charles Williams and others, who all do not appear as themselves. His given name might even be a reference to J. R. R.'s son Christopher, who eventually became a young member of the circle. Interestingly Lewis does meet with a group of friends in the Eagle and Child, where the Inklings held regular meetings. | |
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Romantic Fake–Real Turn | |
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Romantic Fake–Real Turn: Jack and Joy initially have a Citizenship Marriage so Joy can stay in England, but wind up falling head-over-heels in love with each other; Jack has his Love Epiphany when Joy is diagnosed with cancer and they marry in the Church shortly thereafter. | |
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I Miss Mom | |
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I Miss Mom: While Jack is mourning the death of his wife, he sees his stepson, Douglas, crying. Lewis breaks down and joins him ("Me too"), in the first moment of real bonding between the two of them in the film. (Jack had also lost his own mother to cancer when he was a boy.) | |
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The Topic of Cancer | |
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The Topic of Cancer: Or losing the person you love to a slow painful death by cancer. Just to twist the knife more, Lewis's own mother had died the same way when he was a boy, so he is all too aware of the effect it must be having on his stepson. | |
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Marriage Before Romance | |
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Marriage Before Romance: Jack marries Joy in a civil ceremony so that she can live and work in the UK. He gradually falls in love with her, and after she develops bone cancer, they get married for real. | |
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Citizenship Marriage | |
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Citizenship Marriage: Jack agrees to marry Joy in a civil ceremony so she can stay in England, as a personal favor. | |
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Loony Fan | |
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Loony Fan: Before they meet Joy, Warnie (Jack's brother) expresses his concern that she might be one of these. | |
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Manly Tears | |
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Manly Tears: The most heartbreaking moment of the film. | |
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Culture Clash | |
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Culture Clash / Establishing Character Moment: | |
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December–December Romance | |
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December–December Romance: Both Jack and Joy were in or near middle aged at the time of their marriage. | |
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Stiff Upper Lip | |
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Stiff Upper Lip: Jack's book about "why bad things happen to good people" is intellectual and unemotional, saying God uses suffering to reach people and improve character. After Joy's death, he revises his story, more or less saying it's okay to grieve nonetheless. | |
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Based on a True Story | |
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Based on a True Story: The real-life romance of C. S. Lewis and Joy Davidman. For bonus points, several direct quotations from Lewis's books (notably A Grief Observed, describing his experience of bereavement) are prominently featured. | |
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Widowed at the Wedding | |
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Widowed at the Wedding: Both Jack and Joy think this is going to happen, but then Joy's cancer goes into remission. | |
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Composite Character: In real life Joy had two sons, Douglas and David; in the film she has just Douglas. | |
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Confirmed Bachelor | |
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Confirmed Bachelor: Jack starts out as this, before meeting Joy. | |
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Crisis of Faith | |
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Crisis of Faith: Jack questions his faith after Joy's death, but does not abandon it. | |
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Shown Their Work | |
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Shown Their Work: Many of the lectures Lewis gives in the film are taken verbatim from the real Lewis's books, especially Mere Christianity and A Grief Observed. | |
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