The Real Couple Behind Before Sunrise (I'm completely nuts about this film series)

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If you stick around through the closing credits of Before Midnight, the latest film in the trilogy that also includes Before Sunrise and Before Sunset, you’ll see that the movie is dedicated to someone whose name even the most die-hard fans have never heard before: Amy Lehrhaupt. Almost 25 years ago, Lehrhaupt met a young man named Richard Linklater and spent a night with him that he never forgot. Their encounter inspired Linklater to conceive and direct Before Sunrise, the first film in the series. She never saw it, though; unbeknownst to Linklater, by the time that movie came out, Lehrhaupt was dead.

Linklater never mentioned Lehrhaupt by name in the press before promoting Before Midnight—Ethan Hawke has said that the director was uncomfortable mentioning her until “extremely recently”—but he has long made brief references to their encounter. From a number of interviews he’s done over the years, we can now piece together the complete story of how Lehrhaupt helped inspire the series.

Linklater met Lehrhaupt in fall 1989, when he was visiting his sister in Philadelphia. He was 29 and had just finished shooting Slacker, and was staying there for one night while passing through on the way home from New York. Lehrhaupt was several years younger, about 20. They met in a toy shop, and ended up spending the whole night together, “from midnight until six in the morning,” “walking around, flirting, doing things you would never do now.” As in Before Sunrise, most of what they did was talk, “about art, science, film, the gamut.” Did they kiss? Yes. Did they have sex? The Times went so far as to ask Linklater in a recent interview, but he said he wants to “leave a little mystery.”


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http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2013/05/30/before_sunrise_inspiration_before_midnight_is_dedicated_to_amy_lehrhaupt.html

[Autumn Colors]

1. Oh, that's so sad

My boyfriend loved the first movie, but hadn't seen the second. I hadn't seen either of them, so we watched both this past weekend.

Can't wait to see "Before Midnight". It starts at the little art house place nearby on June 14th.

[Autumn Colors]

2. We finally went to see this

We both liked it, but I think my bf liked it more. I ended up feeling kind of depressed at the end. I didn't want them to end up like most couples do. I almost wish the story had ended after the second one ... left to the viewer's imagination. This one sort of did that, but my cynical side doesn't think they ended up staying together.



Not a bad movie by any means, but the story made me sad.