Over time, some pieces will have to be prioritized over others, while others will have to be removed.Īll of this is going to be a full time job for someone else, who’ll have to act like her real memory bank. Lucy will also always be dependent on someone else, as she will never be able to learn any new skill such as a new piece of technology or take up a new job.Īny skills that she already has, wouldn’t improve with practice and will essentially plateau.įinally, there is the practical concern of compression of memories over a long period of time.įor Lucy to be even close to functional, she will have to ingest a large amount of memories every morning. If this assumption is broken, there is no way for Lucy to verify if she had really consented to all this, which is reminiscent of the ‘living-in-a-simulation’ problem. There is a very fundamental assumption here that if the Lucy of yesterday consented to all this, then the Lucy of today and all future days must also consent to it, since they do not ‘know’ of each other. It also raises doubts around consent for things that have permanency for more than a day and affect Lucy personally.įor example, towards the end we see that Henry has married her, and she has two children with him.
This essentially means that Lucy will relive every single happy or sad ‘memory’ every single day, for the rest of her life. Say Lucy’s Father dies, so this ‘event’ will have to be added to the list of all the new ‘memories’ that Lucy goes through every morning. Unlike Groundhog, it is the person who is repeating the day who is unaware of it, while everyone else around them is.įirst, this means that, all the actions have real consequences. Personally, I think that 50 First dates raises far more interesting questions than Groundhog Day ever did. When he tries to meet her the next day, he realizes that she has no recollection of him.Īfter further digging around he realizes that she has a mental condition that causes her brain to reset every day, unable to make any new memories.Īfter meeting Lucy’s Brother and Father, he finds out how she was in an accident that caused an injury, and how they must keep pretending that it’s that same day everyday for the rest of her life.Īfter making him aware of the extent of the charade they put up, he is asked to leave her alone.īut he’s still really in love with her, so he decides to make her fall in love with him every day. Henry is a Walrus researcher in Hawaii, who falls in love with a woman named Lucy at a diner.
What matters though, is if the film truly develops the idea or simply uses it as just another plot device to spin out your usual rom-com.
#50 first dates movie poster professional
The use of one image results in a professional looking poster, and the colours of the image contrast well against the fonts and colours used, thus resulting in the poster being effective in grabbing the audiences attention.Featuring Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore, 50 First Dates is an interesting variation on the Groundhog Day trope. The poster seems clear, and simple but effective, and is not cluttered. As the theme of the poster is consistent, it results in a much more professional looking poster. The predominant colours used in the poster are red, white and black. The design of the poster is consistent with the choice of colours and fonts. I would presume that the target audience of the film are 15 – 30 year olds. The use of the word ‘friggin’ makes the audience perceive the film as if it is a romantic comedy. Colloquial language is used in the selling line ‘friggin’, but complements the theme of the film well. A selling line is used to give the audience an insight as to what the film is about. Especially, as the storyline of the film is about a woman who loses her memory and therefore keeps forgetting who (Adam Sandler) is. Also, the selling line which says ‘REMEMBER THE DATE’ is witty but funny at the same time. Once I analysed the image of the poster and went onto the film title, it is obvious that the film is romantic, and seems a bit like a romantic comedy. Overall, all of the features of the poster make the audience assume that they are a couple. The background is exotic, and seems to be somewhere like the Caribbean of the couple having a picnic on the beach, which seems quite romantic. He is gazing at the woman as if he has deep feelings for her, but it is not clear whether it is as a friend or as a lover. However, the man in the photo is totally the opposite and seems to be much more relaxed, sitting casually and playing his guitar as if serenading the woman. The woman seems to be out of it, frightened and expressionless. The main image of the poster is of a male and female, which I presume are the main characters in the film.