The Proposal
Just in time for the opening of the Sandra Bullock-Ryan Reynolds rom-com The Proposal, we asked our readers which movie characters popped the question best. Check out the clips from the scenes that make you swoon.
A Walk to Remember
The Proposal: A bad boy falls in love with the preacher's ill daughter, culminating in his surprising, romantic proposal under the stars.
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Question: I watched Stepmom for the 2,000th time this weekend and then read up on the Internet about where it was filmed. I love the house they live in and found that the real house and land are in upstate New York, but that the filmmakers only used it for exterior shots. For everything inside, they built this huge, elaborate soundstage. My question is, why spend all that time and money to make a soundstage that looks like a house when you could just use the inside of the house? Do they just love spending money? And why are scenes shot out of sequence?
Answer: First question first: It may seem as though, having found an attractive house whose exterior says what you want it to say about the lives of the people who live in it, that it would be cheaper and easier to use the real interiors as locations, rather than building a soundstage. But on a big-budget Hollywood movie, it generally isn't, for one of two reasons or a combination
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