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| American Pie Presents: The Book of Love | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | John Putch |
| Produced by | Mike Elliot |
| Written by | David H. Steinberg |
| Based on | Characters by Adam Herz |
| Starring | Bug Hall Brandon Hardesty Kevin M. Horton Beth Behrs Melanie Papalia Jennifer Holland John Patrick Jordan Louisa Lytton Sherman Hemsley Curtis Armstrong Jim Wynorski Rosanna Arquette Eugene Levy |
| Music by | David Lawrence |
| Cinematography | Ross Berryman |
| Edited by | John Gilbert |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Universal Studios |
Release date | December 22, 2009 |
| 94 minutes | |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $7 million |
| Box office | $5,021,219[1] |
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American Pie Presents: The Book of Love is a 2009 American sex comedy film released by Universal Pictures. It is the fourth and final installment in American Pie Presents film series, a spin-off of the American Pie franchise. The film stars Bug Hall, John Patrick Jordan, Kevin M. Horton, Brandon Hardesty, and Eugene Levy. This was Sherman Hemsley's final film appearance before his death on July 24, 2012.
American Pie Presents: The Book of Love was released direct-to-DVD in the United States on December 22, 2009.
Plot[edit]
The film begins with Rob entering his bedroom, and attempting to masturbate with a peanut butter and jelly sandwich (similar to the apple pie scenario in the first film). While he is doing this his dog, Frizzie, tries to eat the sandwich, and Rob's little brother Cody takes a video of the ordeal. Later, Rob meets with his friends, Nathan and Marshall Lube, at school. Nathan reveals that his girlfriend, Dana, has pledged to abstain from sex until marriage despite the fact that she has already slept with six other people. Rob talks to Heidi, a girl he is attracted to, and Stifler. Stifler states that if Rob does not make a move on Heidi, he will. In class, Lube has a vivid fantasy about a group of cheerleaders, particularly one named Ashley Lawrence. Rob and Heidi meet later in the school library where she discloses that she is a virgin, and wishes to just 'get it [sex] over with'. At the school dance, Nathan tries to touch Dana's breasts, but only manages to offend her due to her abstinence pledge. Rob attempts to tell Heidi how he feels about her but is interrupted by Nathan and Lube. He eventually finds her in the library about to have sex with another student, and drops a lit candle in a bin in shock. This sets the library on fire, which sets off the water sprinklers.
The next day, when Rob and Heidi are cleaning the library, Rob finds a secret compartment containing 'The Bible' (The Book of Love). He shows the book to Nathan and Lube and explains that it is a sex manual that has been compiled over forty years by the students who found it. The book is regarded as legendary, but unfortunately has been damaged by the water.
Later in the local mall, Rob attempts to test a tip in the book; 'Simple Flattery'. He approaches Ashley in a lingerie store and compliments her. Ashley leads him into a changing room, takes off her bra and top, and makes him steal a bra for her. Unfortunately Rob is caught and forced to pay with his mom's credit card. Meanwhile, Nathan goes to Dana's church service to talk to her, but accidentally broadcasts the explicit and highly personal conversation to the entire congregation on the church's PA system. Dana's father then bans her from seeing Nathan. When she receives her credit card bill, Rob's mom tries to talk to him about it, prompting Rob to sarcastically say that he likes wearing women's underwear. He is again filmed by his little brother, who again posts the footage on the internet for the whole school to see.
The next day, Heidi, Imogen, and Dana are at a school basketball game in which Rob and Stifler are playing. A girl called Katie tries to talk to Stifler, but he brushes her off. Rob again attempts to tell Heidi how he feels, but is unable to. Lube discovers a page in The Bible which tells of a brothel in Canada and a prostitute, Monique, who is very experienced. The entry was written in 1975, but Lube misreads the date as 1995, and they decide to visit. When they meet Monique the boys are disgusted, but Nathan states that they should go for it anyway. Nathan and Lube make Rob go first, but Monique dies while performing oral sex on him. They panic and drive back to the USA.
Rob and Heidi are once again in the library where Rob finally tells her he is attracted to her. Heidi feels the same, and they agree to meet at Stifler's party later. At the party Heidi hears Rob shout 'Tonight, I'm getting laid!', and runs upstairs. Stifler again brushes off Katie when she tries to talk to him. Lube tells Ashley how he feels about her and guarantees sexual satisfaction, but she still turns him down. Ashley's friend is impressed with his promise and tells Lube to meet her upstairs, but when she finds an offensive text on his phone she storms out. Nathan attempts to reconcile with Dana but offends her, making her leave once again. Rob finds Heidi in bed with Stifler and leaves the room. Heidi follows him downstairs, but Rob refuses to talk to her and begins to drink heavily. He declares 'only assholes get laid!' and then behaves crudely to a random girl, who promptly goes to bed with him. She asks him to have sex with her from behind, but he hallucinates and sees Heidi saying; 'You aren't seriously going to stick your dick in that, are you?'. Rob then throws up on the girl's back. The next morning his mother asks him if he drove home drunk, and shows him a film she received on her phone of Rob throwing up on the girl the night before.
In an attempt to restore The Bible, Rob and his friends resolve to find all of the people who originally wrote it in order to recreate it, starting with the original creator, Noah Levenstein. They eventually succeed in recreating the book.
Rob and his friends then go on the school ski trip. In a log cabin where a few students are playing strip poker, Katie again attempts to talk to Stifler, who again rebuffs her. She bets Stifler that if she wins at poker he has to apologise to her and run naked in the snow. Stifler loses and is forced to apologise and go outside naked, where he is mounted by a moose. Due to last night's ordeal, Imogen keeps him company and the two form a bond. The other students are riding up the mountain in gondola ski lifts, but Nathan has sex with Dana in the lift control room and accidentally shut off the lifts' power. In one lift, Rob and Heidi reconcile and kiss. Ashley and Lube are in another lift, where Lube falls out when trying to go for help. When Ashley climbs down to him, Lube tells her how he really feels about her, moving her to tears. Heidi and Rob return to the cabin and have sex. Lube and Ashley do the same.
The story ends with Rob, Nathan, and Lube returning the newly restored Bible to where Rob found it, after Rob has added his signature to it. As a finale, Rob's brother, Cody, enters his bedroom to find an online film of him putting a vacuum cleaner on his penis. To his horror it has been viewed almost 10 million times. Rob ends the film with the words 'Gotcha, ha ha'.
Cast[edit]
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Production[edit]
The Book of Love was filmed in Vancouver. The East Great Falls High was actually Centennial Secondary School in Coquitlam, British Columbia. The tram scene up the mountain is located at Vancouver's Grouse Mountain.
Soundtrack[edit]
- 'Oh Yeah' by Yello
- 'Something in Your Mouth' by Nickelback
- 'Sexy Little Thing'/'Miss Cindy' by The High Decibels
- 'Smoke Alarm' by Freddy Rawsh
- 'Hot N Cold' by Katy Perry
- 'Dance, Dance' by Fall Out Boy
- 'Turn It Down' by Sideway Runners
- 'Hypnotik' by Roobie Breastnut
- 'Beer' by Ace Baker
- 'How Do I Know' by Wanda Bell
- 'When You Want Some Uh Uh' by Nio Renee Wilson
- 'Get Loose (NipJoint Remix)' by Quanteisha
- 'Pauline' by The High Lonesome
- 'Katmandu' by Sam Morrison
- '1969' by Dr. Hollywood
- 'Body Language' by Isaac Hayes
- 'If Something's Wrong' by Aidan Hawken
- 'Damned If I Do Ya (Damned If I Don't)' by All Time Low
- 'Hot Mess' by Cobra Starship
- 'Are You Ready' Crash Boom Bang
- 'Got Me Some Love' by Keely Hawkes
- 'Army Girl' by The Genders
- 'Obsession' by Ace Baker
- 'Something Wild' by The High Lonesome
- 'Burnin' Love' by Travis Tritt
- 'Laid' by Aidan Hawken
- 'She Can Dance' by Billy Trudel
- 'Monday' by Mikey and the Gypsys
- 'In It for You' ('Catch My Fall') by The Elliots
- 'Heartbeats' by Melinda Ortner
- 'Say Yes' by Elliott Smith
- 'Book of Love' by Powderfinger
- 'Sinner' by Big B featuring Scott Russo
- 'Mouth to Mouth' by Kaya Jones
References[edit]
- ^'American Pie Presents: The Book of Love – DVD Sales'. The Numbers. Retrieved 16 April 2018.
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In Christianity and Judaism, the Book of Life (Hebrew: ספר החיים, transliteratedSefer HaChaim; Greek: βιβλίον τῆς ζωῆςBiblíon tēs Zōēs) is the book in which God records the names of every person who is destined for Heaven or the World to Come.[citation needed] According to the Talmud it is open on Rosh Hashanah, as is its analog for the wicked, the Book of the Dead. For this reason extra mention is made for the Book of Life during Amidah recitations during the Days of Awe, the ten days between Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new year, and Yom Kippur, the day of atonement (the two High Holidays, particularly in the prayer Unetaneh Tokef).
In the Hebrew Bible[edit]
In the Hebrew Bible the Book of Life—the book or muster-roll of God—records forever all people considered righteous before God.[citation needed] To be blotted out of this book signifies death.[1] It is with reference to the Book of Life that the holy remnant is spoken of as being written unto life[2] in Jerusalem;[3] compare also Ezekiel 9:4, where one of the six heavenly envoys 'who had the scribe's inkhorn upon his loins' is told to mark the righteous for life, while the remainder of the inhabitants of Jerusalem are doomed. The Psalms also speaks of a book of the living: 'Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with the righteous.[4]
Even the tears of men are recorded in this Book of God.[5] 'Every one that shall be found written in the book . . . shall awake to everlasting life'.[6] This book is probably identical with the 'Book of Remembrance' in which are recorded the deeds of those that fear the Lord.[7]
In apocrypha[edit]
The apocryphalBook of Jubilees[8] speaks of two heavenly tablets or books: a Book of Life for the righteous, and a Book of Death for those that walk in the paths of impurity and are written down on the heavenly tablets as adversaries (of God). Also, according to Jubilees 36:10, one who contrives evil against his neighbor will be blotted out of the Book of Remembrance of men, and will not be written in the Book of Life, but in the Book of Perdition. In Daniel 12:1 and Enoch 47:3 'the Ancient of Days' is described as seated upon his throne of glory with 'the Book' or 'the Books of Life' ('of the Living') opened before him. So are, according to Enoch 56:1, the righteous 'written before the glory of the Great One,' and, according to Enoch 108:3, the transgressors 'blotted out of the Book of Life and out of the books of the holy ones.' Reference is made also in The Shepherd of Hermas (Vision i. 3; Mandate viii.; Similitude ii.); in Revelation 3:5, 13:8, 17:8, 20:12–15, where 'two Books' are spoken of as being 'opened before the throne, the Book of Life, and the Book of Death, in which latter the unrighteous are recorded together with their evil deeds, in order to be cast into the lake of fire.' It is the Book of Life in which the apostles' names are 'written in heaven' (Luke 10:20), or 'the fellow-workers' of Paul (Phil 4:3), and 'the assembly of the first-born' (Hebrews 12:23; compare I Clem. 45). Allusion is made also in Enoch 81:4, 89:61–77, 90:17–20, 98:6-15, 104:7; 2 Baruch 24:1; Ascension of Isaiah 9:20.
In the New Testament[edit]
The Book of Life is referred to six times in the Book of Revelation (3:5, 13:8, 17:8, 20:12, 20:15, 21:27) one of the books of the New Testament, attributed to John of Patmos. As described, only those whose names are written in the Book of Life from the foundation of the world, and have not been blotted out by the Lamb, are saved at the Last Judgment; all others are doomed. 'And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire' (Rev. 20:15, King James Version). 'And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works'. (Rev. 20:12, King James Version)
It is also mentioned in Paul's letter to the Philippians:
- Clement also, and the rest of my fellow workers, whose names are in the Book of Life.[9]
The eschatological or annual roll-call[edit]
While the prevailing tendency among apocryphal writers of the Hasidean school was to give the Book of Life an eschatological meaning, the Jewish liturgy and the tradition relating to the New Year and Atonement days adhered to the ancient view, which took the Book of Life in its natural meaning, preferring, from a practical point of view, the worldliness of Judaism to the heavenliness of the Essenes. Instead of transferring, as is done in the Book of Enoch, the Testament of Abraham, and elsewhere, the great Judgment Day to the hereafter, the Pharisaic school taught that on the first day of each year (Rosh Hashanah), God sits in judgment over his creatures and has the Books of Life together with the books containing the records of the righteous and the wicked.[citation needed]
The origin of the heavenly Book of Life must be sought in Babylonia, where legends[10] speak of the Tablets of Destiny and of tablets containing the transgressions, sins, wrongdoings, curses and execrations of a person who should be 'cast into the water'; that is, blotted out.[11] The living are the righteous,[12] who alone are admitted to citizenship in the theocracy, while the wicked are denied membership and blotted out of God's book (Ex. xxxii. 32 et seq.).[13] The life in which the righteous participate is to be understood in a temporal sense, as temporal life is apparently prayed for in the liturgical formula: 'Inscribe us in the Book of Life.'[citation needed]
In Daniel xii. 1, however, those who are found written in the book and who escape the troubles preparatory to the coming of the Messianic kingdom are they who, together with the risenmartyrs, are destined to share in everlasting life. Eternal life is certainly meant in Enoch xlvii. 3, civ. 1, cviii. 3, and frequently in the New Testament, especially in Revelation. The Targum (Isa. iv. 3; Ezek. xiii. 9) speaks of the 'Book of Eternal Life.' The Mishnah states that the deeds of every human being are recorded in a book (Abot, ii. 1; see iii. 16). The Sefer Ḥasidim (xxxiii) pointedly adds that God is in no need of a book of records; 'the Torah speaks the language of man.'[citation needed]
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Fundraising[edit]
A book of life motif is frequently found in Jewish houses of worship. It is both a decorative feature and fundraiser. Some synagogues have raised money by inscribing congregation member's names in a 'book of life' as a tribute to their financial generosity.
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Notes[edit]
- ^Shemot (Book of Exodus) 32:33
- ^A. V., 'among the living'
- ^Isaiah 4:3
- ^Psalms 69:28; compare Psalms 139:16.
- ^Psalms 56:9
- ^Daniel 12:1 et seq.
- ^Malachi 3:16
- ^xxx. 20-22.
- ^Philippians 4:3
- ^See Creation Tab. iv. 121, and the Zu legend, ii. 7, quoted in Harper's 'Babylonische Legenden,' in Beitr. z. Assyriologie by Delitzsch and Haupt, 1892, ii. 2, p. 412.
- ^Compare Micah vii. 19 and the art. Tashlik.
- ^Ps. lxix.29.
- ^Ezek. xiii. 9; Jer. xxii. 30; and Ex. xxxii. 30-34, accordingly assigned by Holzinger to a late stratum; see his commentary.
References[edit]
- Charles, Book of Enoch, pp. 131–133
- Gustaf Dalman, Worte Jesu, p. 171.
- JAL, 'The Book of Life.'