![]() So if I can serve in any way, my story and my loss, and how to deal with tragedies and serve to inspire someone else and help them through, then it?s okay. I?m grateful for this experience and hopefully there are some words of encouragement in the movie that will resonate with people with their own struggles, to help them get through. One the whole I think it?s a beautiful story. When we were shooting the scene in Arlington Cemetery was one of the worst days of my life. There are some days I?m really overjoyed and other days are difficult. The fact that people all across the country care about the story and are sending me hugs and sending me emails is very healing for me. So how are you feeling about it all at this point? I?m sensitive to the fact that even though it?s been a number of years since the events in the film, the writing of the book, the making of the movie, and now all these interviews you?re doing can stir up many emotions for you and for your son. Canedy is a Pulitzer prize-winning journalist who is now Senior Vice President of Simon and Schuster. The film version of the book is directed by Denzel Washington and stars Michael B. Adams and Jordan have a warm, engaging connection on screen, and there is a surprising but welcome touch of humor as their romance develops.I recently had the chance to speak via Zoom with Dana Canedy, who wrote the book A Journal for Jordan about her fianc? 1st Sergeant Charles Monroe King who wrote a journal for their yet unborn child prior to being killed in Iraq. But Washington wisely keeps the actors at the center of the story. ![]() Perhaps because of the timeline shifts, director Denzel Washington avoids fussy cinematic flourishes, though in one scene, as they talk on the phone, both lying down, we see their faces sideways, an odd distraction. ![]() She tells him he has to sleep on the couch and he does. But after she goes back to New York, they start having long phone calls. She is reluctant to get involved with him. The day after they meet, he shows up on the dot of o-nine-hundred as promised but she has overslept. As the daughter of a career military man, she has seen Army wives sacrifice their careers so they can follow their husbands from one assignment to another. He is a quiet man, divorced with a daughter, who gets his news from television and has never been to Manhattan. She is a high-strung, highly verbal woman who writes for a newspaper in New York City. She is immediately drawn to him and makes up a story about needing a ride to spend some time with him. Jordan), in the living room of the house she grew up in, where he is hanging a picture he created as a gift for her father. Then we go back in time to her first meeting with Charles ( Michael B. She is still breast-feeding and it is past time to pump. We first see Dana ( Chanté Adams) at work, fiercely independent, angry at an editor who wants to add another reporter to her story and then annoyed when the colleague who is trying to be assigned to her story points out that her breast milk has leaked through to her blouse. Each chapter begins as a letter: “Dear Jordan.” After King’s death, Canedy wrote a best-seller incorporating excerpts from the journal, to tell Jordan the story of his father and of their time together.
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