Top 10 Movie Couples That Were Doomed from the Start
They were sadily doomed from the start. Welcome to MsMojo, and today we’re counting down our picks for the most doomed movie romances.
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00:00It is my lady, oh, it is my love.
00:06Welcome to Ms Mojo, and today we're counting down our picks for the most doomed movie romances.
00:12I can't see anything that I don't like about you.
00:14But you will.
00:15Right now I can't.
00:16But you will.
00:17Spoilers ahead.
00:18Number 10, Satine and Christian, Moulin Rouge.
00:22The woman I loved is dead.
00:31When watching this frenetic jukebox musical filled with color and love,
00:36it can be easy to forget the dark story framing it from jump.
00:40The film chronicles the tale of writer Christian and performer Satine,
00:44who despite all odds fall in love in 1899 Paris.
00:48She has been promised to the wealthy and nefarious Duke of Monroth.
00:52Why would the courtesan choose a penniless sitar player over the Maharaja,
00:58who is offering a lifetime of security?
01:01That's real love.
01:03Although Satine chooses love over money, and Christian escapes a murderous plot,
01:08their time together is cut tragically short due to her untimely death at the hands of a terminal illness.
01:14Indeed, the pair are essentially doomed from the start,
01:17at least by writing their love story, Christian ensures that it and Satine can live on.
01:23I will love you until my dying day.
01:37Number 9, Sebastian and Mia, La La Land.
01:40It's impossible to deny the chemistry that frequent co-leads Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling share.
01:46This is particularly true in La La Land, where they play a pair of creative dreamers in Los Angeles.
02:01The film calls back to classic musicals of the past,
02:04with their characters Seb and Mia falling in love in a series of beautifully choreographed musical numbers.
02:10However, the story also aims to be more grounded and realistic in its bittersweet depiction of romance,
02:16and problems arise between the couple.
02:18I mean, I'm finally in something that people enjoy.
02:22Since when do you care about being liked?
02:25Why do you care so much about being liked?
02:27You're an actress, what are you talking about?
02:29Soon it becomes clear that they need to let each other go to achieve their goals.
02:33Though we get a gorgeous, heart-wrenching glimpse at what might have been in the end,
02:38they do ultimately go their separate ways.
02:41I'm always gonna love you.
02:44I'm always gonna love you too.
02:46Number 8, Jack and Ennis, Brokeback Mountain.
02:49Many romances are doomed by circumstance.
02:52Sadly, this tale of two American cowboys falling in love in a world that won't accept them is a prime example of this.
02:59What are we gonna do now?
03:05I doubt there's nothing we can do.
03:07Jack and Ennis, played by Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger, form an intense romantic and sexual bond.
03:14Unfortunately, it's constantly plagued by others and their own toxic masculinity.
03:19Despite years apart and their own marriages to women,
03:22they are drawn together again each time they meet, before always being violently torn apart.
03:27What we got now is Brokeback Mountain.
03:32Everything's built on that. That's all we got, boys.
03:35They never have a chance to get things right as Jack passes away.
03:39It's particularly tragic when you consider how a better, less homophobic world would have spared them such unbearable heartache.
03:46What if you and me had a little ranch somewhere? A little cow and calf operation. Be sweet like.
03:53Number 7, Nora and Hae Song, Past Lives.
03:58From an early age, Nora, born Na Young and Hae Song, seem destined to be together.
04:16However, Nora's move from Korea to Canada with her family changes both their lives.
04:21When Nora and Hae Song reconnect online over a decade later, the spark remains.
04:26But as is so often the case, the timing and geography are all wrong.
04:30Twelve more years later, they reconnect again.
04:33Now Nora is married to Arthur, and she truly does love him.
04:37It's just that you make my life so much bigger.
04:42And I'm wondering if I do the same thing for you.
04:48You do.
04:49Though she's pulled towards her childhood love, the writing is on the wall.
04:53It's not meant to be. Not in this life, anyway.
04:56Past Lives upends the convention surrounding love triangles to poignant effect,
05:01while confirming that destiny will forever hold Nora, Hae Song, and even Arthur together.
05:16I'm just talking about you.
05:18Number 6. Benjamin and Daisy.
05:24The curious case of Benjamin Button.
05:26Missed opportunities and unfortunate circumstances get in these soulmates' way.
05:31Our lives are defined by opportunities.
05:34Even the ones we miss.
05:36Meeting early on, Benjamin and Daisy grow fond of each other.
05:39The only problem is that physically, Benjamin ages in reverse.
05:43This keeps them apart most of their lives as she grows older and he becomes younger.
05:48They're only able to find happiness for a brief moment when their ages align,
05:52even starting a family.
05:54But there's no way it can last.
05:56We're meeting in the middle.
05:58We finally caught up with each other.
06:01Wait.
06:04I want to remember us just as we are now.
06:07Benjamin disappears, wandering the world in his youthful twilight years.
06:11Their paths cross one other time as lovers before things take a turn.
06:16In the end, she becomes his caregiver until his passing.
06:19Their emotional connection is everlasting,
06:22which makes the fact that no happy ending can exist for them a true tragedy.
06:26What a shame that is.
06:31Some things last.
06:33Number 5. Joel and Clementine.
06:35Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind.
06:37Charlie Kaufman's existential romance sci-fi drama asks an important question.
06:42Is it better to forget one you once loved,
06:45or to embrace the pain and remember the good times and the bad?
06:48Then what?
06:50I'm listening.
06:51I don't know.
06:52You erased me. That's why I'm here. That's why I'm doing this in the first place.
06:56I'm sorry.
06:57You.
06:58You know me. I'm impulsive.
07:00Joel and Clementine each opt for a procedure to forget the other.
07:04And as his memories are erased, we see their highs and lows.
07:08Despite the wipe, they're pulled together again.
07:11Still, the revelation of their mutually forgotten past,
07:14and how messy things got, gives them pause.
07:16I felt like a scared little kid.
07:18I was like, it was above my head. I don't know.
07:21You were scared?
07:23Yeah.
07:25I thought you knew that about me.
07:27In the bittersweet ending, they decide to rekindle things,
07:30likely realizing they'll fall into the same traps.
07:33It seems they're doomed to repeat their breakup, possibly over and over.
07:38And I'll get bored with you and feel trapped because that's what happens with me.
07:43Okay.
07:49Okay.
07:50Number four.
07:51Romeo and Juliet.
07:53Romeo and Juliet.
07:54What is ensign yet is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks.
08:03Death's pale flag has not advanced it there.
08:06Over the years, Shakespeare's play about doomed lovers
08:09has been adapted to film countless times,
08:12and it never gets less heartbreaking.
08:14Baz Luhrmann's 1996 adaptation featuring Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes
08:19modernized the tragedy,
08:21putting the director's signature spin on the star-crossed lovers' story.
08:25However, nothing beats the 1968 movie
08:28and the powerful performances from Olivia Hussey and Leonard Whiting
08:32in the title roles.
08:33I've more care to stay than will to go.
08:37Come death and welcome, Juliet wills it so.
08:40Members of warring Montagues and Capulets,
08:43their loved ones harm each other while they wed in secret.
08:46In one of the most tragic and well-known endings of all time,
08:50Juliet fakes her death, leading to Romeo taking his own life.
08:53She soon follows suit.
08:55Only then do their families realize the error of their ways.
08:59See what a scourge is laid upon your hates,
09:04that heaven finds means to kill your joys with love.
09:09Number three.
09:10Chao and Su.
09:11In the Mood for Love.
09:12Moving into neighboring apartments,
09:14Chao Mo Wan and Su Li Zhen often see each other in passing,
09:18with director Wong Kar Wai beautifully capturing stolen glances between them.
09:22Eventually they form a bond,
09:24supported by their shared love of martial arts fiction
09:27and a discovery that their spouses are having an affair.
09:30我真係講唔出口喎
09:36我明嘅
09:40件事都發生咗
09:42邊個講有咩所謂
09:44What begins as roleplay wondering what their cheating partners did
09:48turns into a genuine affection and eventually love.
09:51Torn about whether they should act on their feelings,
09:53they almost run away together.
09:55Sadly Su's late arrival keeps them apart.
09:58我以後唔會再搵你㗎啦
10:00好啲睇住你老公
10:02We hope they'll subsequently find their way to each other,
10:05but sadly the ensuing years are filled with near misses.
10:09In the end, their love is nothing more than an unrealized whisper, sealed away.
10:14孫太用池喺隔離㗎?
10:15搬咗啦
10:16依家咁亂
10:18有得走仲唔走咩?
10:20Number two.
10:21Marianne and Eloise.
10:23Portrait of a Lady on Fire.
10:25唔好唔好
10:27唔好唔好
10:31唔好唔好
10:33Some doomed romances come as surprises,
10:35but others including this one arrive with a ticking clock.
10:39Betrothed to a nobleman,
10:40Eloise refuses to sit for the portrait that would seal her marriage.
10:44Thus painter Marianne is brought in to discreetly capture her essence.
10:49Eloise notices Marianne's stolen glances
10:52and gives her some of their own as intense feelings quickly develop between them.
10:56妳的存在是一種過往的現象
10:58從一種瞬間的角度來看,
10:59它也可能缺乏真相
11:03所有事情都不是一種過往的現象
11:07有些感情是深厚的
11:09After Marianne admits the deception,
11:11Eloise agrees to finally pose for the portrait,
11:14sealing her future,
11:15but giving the women a chance to bond further.
11:18Knowing their time together will be short,
11:20they engage in a passionate affair that comes to define their lives
11:23and haunt them forever.
11:25我一直在等著你
11:28你夢見我了嗎?
11:31不,
11:33我在想你
11:35Before we unveil our top pick,
11:36here are a few honourable mentions.
11:38Jack and Rose, Titanic
11:40A romance cut short by the titular ship's fate.
11:43Jack,
11:45this is where we first met.
11:52Batman and Catwoman,
11:53Batman Returns
11:54While their alter egos battle,
11:56Bruce and Selina fall in love.
11:58你說什麼?
12:01我要脫下服裝
12:06我想我累了,要穿口罩了
12:09我也是
12:10Dean and Cindy,
12:11Blue Valentine
12:12Tracing a love story from its hopeful beginning
12:15to its difficult ending.
12:17我已經做不到了
12:21我知道
12:22Ray and Kylo,
12:23Star Wars Episode IX
12:25The Rise of Skywalker
12:27Bonded across the stars by the Force.
12:41Ali and Jackson,
12:42A Star is Born
12:43A story of music and love that ends in tragedy.
12:54Never
12:58Love again
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13:17Laura and Alec, Brief Encounter
13:20A random meeting at a train station
13:22grows into something neither party could have anticipated.
13:25They aren't looking for a deep and profound romantic connection,
13:28but they find one.
13:30Laura and Alec are happily married
13:32when they strike up a casual friendship.
13:34Inevitably, they realize that they have fallen in love.
13:37It is true for you, isn't it?
13:39This overwhelming feeling we have for each other.
13:42It's as true for you as it is for me, isn't it?
13:45Yes, it's true.
13:51The story is set in a prim and proper period around the 1940s
13:55and they're torn between their connection and loyalties
13:58to their respective families.
13:59In other words, the writing is on the wall.
14:02There's no way this ends well.
14:04You love me too.
14:05It's no use pretending it hasn't happened,
14:06because it has.
14:07Yes, it has.
14:09I don't want to pretend anything either to you or to anyone else.
14:12But from now on, I shall have to.
14:14That's what's wrong, don't you see?
14:16That's what spoils everything.
14:18Sure enough, after finally admitting their feelings,
14:20the opportunity for intimacy is stolen from them.
14:23They're even robbed of a chance for one last embrace
14:26in a heart-breaking finale.
14:28I felt the touch of his hand on my shoulder for a moment.
14:32And then he walked away.
14:35Away, out of my life forever.
14:37Which doomed movie couples broke your heart?
14:40Write them a love letter in the comments below.
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