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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