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Every 12 months, as the times develop colder and Christmas attracts nearer, “Love Actually” rapidly turns into a festive favourite on folks’s tv screens.
But practically 20 years on from the discharge of the 2003 romantic comedy, the film has confronted scrutiny over its story traces and lack of range.
“There were things you’d change but thank god society is changing. So my film is bound, in some moments, to feel, you know, out of date,” the film’s author and director Richard Curtis mentioned earlier this week.
He was chatting with Diane Sawyer as a part of a documentary on ABC News titled: “The Laughter & Secrets of Love Actually: 20 Years Later.”
“Love Actually” options interweaving story traces, following a number of romantic relationships. However, many of the main solid is White and all of the relationships depicted are heterosexual.
Asked about any moments that may make him “wince,” Curtis mentioned: “The lack of diversity makes me feel uncomfortable and a bit stupid.” He added: “I think there are three plots that have bosses and people who work for them.”
The film options a powerful variety of huge names from the leisure business, with Alan Rickman, Emma Thompson, Hugh Grant, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Keira Knightley, Bill Nighy, Colin Firth, Liam Neeson, Martin Freeman, Laura Linney, Martine McCutcheon, Rowan Atkinson and Thomas Brodie-Sangster all showing sooner or later.
Nearly 20 years on, “Love Actually” stays widespread, changing into a staple of the vacation season.
“It’s amazing the way it’s entered the language,” Nighy mentioned within the ABC News documentary.
“I’ve had people coming up to me saying ‘it got me through my chemotherapy,’ or ‘it got me through my divorce,’ or ‘I watch it whenever I’m alone.’ And people do, and people have ‘Love Actually’ parties.”
When requested if she understood why “Love Actually” had remained widespread, Thompson replied: “I so do.”
“Because I think that we forget, time and time again we forget, that love is all that matters.”
Curtis has written a number of different widespread romantic comedies, together with “Four Weddings and a Funeral,” “Notting Hill” and “Bridget Jones’s Diary.”
“Four Weddings and a Funeral” was launched in 1994 and notably portrayed a same-sex relationship between Matthew, performed by John Hannah, and Gareth, performed by Simon Callow.
Writing within the Guardian 14 years later, Callow mentioned: “It almost defies belief, but in the months after the release of the film, I received a number of letters from apparently intelligent, articulate members of the public saying that they had never realised, until seeing the film, that gay people had emotions like normal people.”
