MovieChat Forums > Ruby Sparks (2012) Discussion > Switching from Typewriter to a laptop

Switching from Typewriter to a laptop


Maybe I missed some part of the movie, but why does he switch to writing on a laptop towards the end?

...a little fantastic, and fleeting, and out of reach.

reply

I think it was because Calvin was trying to get Ruby out of his life, and one of the ways to do that was the get rid of the thing that helped him bring Ruby to life.

-Don't fall in love with somebody who dosn't love you back-

reply

You mean the magical power is in the typewriter?

...a little fantastic, and fleeting, and out of reach.

reply

No it was Calvin's imagination that manifested Ruby, and in the end he set Ruby free. I think he got rid of typewriter because that was his vessel to bring his thought to life.

-Don't fall in love with somebody who dosn't love you back-

reply

I just took it to mean he was finally able to change with the times, and not hold on to the past.

reply

He had to spoil it by getting a Mac though.

His imagination, his genius as others keep reminding him, created Ruby. The typewriter was just the tool to create her. By getting rid of the typewriter he got rid of another part of her, so he could move on and let them both be free.

Assuming Direct Control

reply

Yep, that's exactly right. The typewriter was full of magic.
I don't know how you missed the shot, which is a close-up of the typewriter's bottom, when Calvin lifts it to get the key.
It said there "Made in Warhogs, your shop for magical and enchanted items."
Don't listen to those morons, saying some *beep* about imaginations, moving on, revaluating things, accepting change or any other of that BS.

reply


you are being sarcastic

that doesn't come through the internet very well you realize?


~<3~ Crystal ~<3~

reply

I do realize that. But I don't care. I've got nothing to lose. I'm a rebel. The Man won't keep me down. Viva la sarcasm!

reply

The answer is easy.
Apple paid a lot of money :D

reply

I'd be shocked if Apple paid them any money

reply

Apple is the company paying the most money for people in movies to use their computers. Their real market share is less than 10%, yet it seems that everybody in movies use a Mac.

reply

"The company relies heavily on free product placement in television shows and movies."
http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-product-placements-in-tv-and-movi es-2012-8?op=1

reply

It because he was letting go of the past just as she was released from her past.

reply

Same reason there's a iPad sitting on the table by the girl, when the guy is reading the newspaper. Did you see what this film made? Someone has to pay the bills, and no-one has more spare cash than Apple.

And Apple would have loved the implied message (and paid more). Now I'm a mature male with a much more respectful attitude toward female-kind, I use Apple laptops.

reply

He switched from a typewriter to a laptop because no REAL author has used a typewriter since the 1970's.

Why would you create a book with a device where to change one spelling error, you would need to re-type the entire page? Or to add one paragraph, you would have to re-type the whole book after that paragraph, for the sake of the pagination?

I couldn't take this seriously. Typewriters look and sound very cinematic, but they are of no practical use when creating a manuscript.

Perhaps there are a few throwback authors out there who can't part with their old Smith-Coronas, but that means some poor assistant will have to re-type the whole thing into a word processor anyway, so what's the point?

"Adaptation", "Love Actually" - plenty of movies depict this, but I consider it completely unrealistic and stupid. I'll allow them in movies that take place in the past, like "Saving Mr. Banks" or "Barton Fink", but there's no place for them in a film set in the modern day.

reply

I wish they gave a reason why the guy still used a typewriter. He's young and he doesn't seem to be all that technophobic or a Luddite since he uses a cell phone and had a flat-screen TV.

reply

It would be better if the film was a fairy tale and the "magic" power had actually come from an old typewriter that the author discovered somewhere in the basement. Typewriters (especially manual ones) had been phased out by the time Paul Dano was born (in 1984) and it was highly unlikely that he would learn to use a typewriter or even see people using them

reply