Just finished rewatching "Four Weddings and a Funeral"... has it been 25 years? Gulp!
Some random thoughts
- ADR terrible
- It's great the Carrie (Andie McDowell) is sexually liberated and
everything but to have sex with a guy you know really likes you while
you're engaged to someone else, and then to turn up on that guy's
wedding day... it's a little self centered and I'm not sure how long she
and Charles would last... but I know in my heart that Charles and his
friends (the real romance of the film) will still be ultra tight
- it's fun to rewatch knowing Hugh Grant was closer IRL to his
character in Bridget Jones' Diary and I would totally watch a remake of
this film with that character in the lead
- the set up, structure,
and pay off of this screenplay is an utter, utter marvel, as is the fact
it balances so many characters and subplots and tones and if you think
that's easy try writing it yourself - even Richard Curtis himself never
topped this
- I don't think there's any movie where so many
actors/characters got a moment in the sun... everyone remembers Charles,
and Carrie, and Tom and Fiona, Gareth and Matthew, Scarlett, and David
the deaf brother... but also the married couples, Bernard and Lydia, and
anxious Angus and drunk Laura, and Henrietta and her dumb brother, and
the lecherous guy who tries to pick up Carrie, the girl who romances
David, the old man who snaps at Charles, the old man who scowls at
Father Gerald, and Father Gerald, and the woman who asks Fiona if she's a
lesbian and all the ex girlfriends... they all get at least one moment
to really shine and I can't think of any other which matches it...
- "is it raining I hadn't noticed" retains the power to horrify
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