Script Analysis

 50 First Dates

1. The opening of the script for 50 First Dates includes many women exclaiming how they had the “best” vacation experience it’s a man until they had asked for his number and he came up with wild excuses as to why he couldn’t stay in contact. This creates the comedic effect for the rest of the movie and even foreshadowing on how the character Adam Sandler (Henry) plays will have character development later on by changing his “player” ways once he finds “the girl.” However, this girl has the perfect irony to this development as it would work perfectly with his “player” facade as she (Lucy, played by Drew Barrymore) has a memory issue where her memory “resets” each day back to the day of her accident. Throughout the script, Henry tries every day to make Lucy fall in love with him all over again without scaring her. 

2. At points in the script, the writer even adds little details such as saying how enamored by each other they are with sentences like “they are so charmed by each other that neither notices” or how the script foreshadows who he’d name his boat after when he tells Lucy he plans to sail for as long as it takes until he finds someone to name it after, which by the end is Lucy and their kids.