Endless Love Is A Romance Directed By Shana Feste

The film Endless Love is a romance directed by Shana Feste in 2014 about 17 year-old Jade Butterfield (Gabriella Wilde) who meets and falls in love with a fellow high school student, David Elliot (Alex Pettyfer). Jade wasn’t the average high school student after her brother passed away. She spent all her time with her parents and other brother, Keith Butterfield (Rhys Wakefield). Considering Jade’s dad, Hugh Butterfield (Bruce Greenwood), doesn’t like the young lady she becomes while dating David, there are some troubles along the way. Hugh and his wife’s, Anne Butterfield (Joely Richardson) marriage begins to dissolve. With Jade’s parents’ disapproval, it only makes the love-struck teens more determined to be together. Jade turns down†¦show more content†¦Despite leaving in a few familiar moments (there is still a love scene with a fireplace). Alex Pettyfer and Jaime King lookalike Gabriella and Wilde play the main teen lovebirds, who, unlike the original lovebirds, fall in love AFTER they graduate high school. And instead of David comes from an affluent family and Jade is the product of a bohemian household, this has Jade as the introverted daughter of rich parents while David is the son of a single, grease monkey dad. Safe and predictable, there is nothing remotely surprising (and, therefore, interesting) about this rudimentary remake. The movie is so simple and sappy in its plotting that it seems more suited for the Hallmark Channel than the big screen. It also doesn’t take much to see that it’s sampling more of the work of Nicholas Sparks than Spencer’s book. Since there isn’t a movie adaptation of a Sparks novel coming out this February, as it seems to be the case every year, this movie jumps on this opportunity and envisions how Sparks would’ve handled â€Å"Love† if he wrote it. To watch and enjoy Endless Love one must overcome the sappy love story of pretty teens with clear heads and endless romantic thoughts and feelings. Everyone else will be rolling their eyes at the predictability of every bogus twist. Endless Love might as well be one long montage of longing gazes, tender kisses, and lovers splashing in water falling in love. We never get a sense of why the two are drawn to each other. They rarely