My wife is obsessed with "Love Actually". I don't really get it, but I have now
been forced to watch watched the movie a dozen times.
Fun fact: the relationships from Love Actually are meant to convey the many types of love. For example: love at first sight, unrequited love, infatuation, etc.
There are at least a dozen forms of love depicted in the movie:
Marital Love: Keira Knightley marrying her hubby
Unrequited Love: Keira Knightley and her husband's best friend
Love at First Sight: Hugh Grant (the Prime Minister) and his tea and biscuits server
Workplace Love: John and Judy, the standins for the sex scenes that fall in love while working together.
Familial Love: Liam Neeson and his (step)son deal with the grief of losing Mom
Physical Love: Colin (the British guy) comes to America to get up on hot girls from Wisconsin.
Long Distance Love: Colin Firth and his Portuguese helper:
Sacrificial Love: Laura Linney giving up her crush on her coworker to be with her institutionalized brother.
Cheatin' Love: Alan Rickman being tempted by his secretary.
Infatuation: Liam Neeson's stepson having a crush on the best singer in his class
Taken-for-Granted Love: Emma Thompson about to realize that her husband (Alan Rickman) is having an affair
Platonic Love: Bill Nighy (the rock and roll singer) and his manager:
(I thought these two were actually secretly in gay love, but Wikipedia says that it's platonic, so it must be true. Apparently, straight men like to get drunk and watch porn together.)
I've experienced 9 out of the 12 forms of love (as defined by Love Actually)... how about you?
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I think I covered 9 or 10 of those types. P.S. Love Actually isn't so bad! Although quite cheesy at times, it was very funny and touching at many parts
do people really get drunk and watch porn TOGETHER? 0.o
btw, 6 or 7, I guess.
Ahaha 11 of 12!
Even chicks get drunk and watch porn together! It's always better when you can laugh at anal.
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I always wanted to watch this movie
I was going to try to the other day
I couldn't really sit through that movie once either.
colin firth and his girl is not long distance love. you've seen the movie twelve times and you missed that? it's completely cross-lingual love. there's nothing long distance about it. sure, they live in two different parts of the area, but that's not the main issue in their relationship.
also, i've experienced 8 out the 12
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i've gone through just about every one of them. but my favorite is #2.
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Wikipedia said Bill and Joe aren't gay?
Wikipedia has failed me. If it could say something like this, that it is a platonic relationship, then it must mean that all of its other articles are incorrect. Crap, I actually have to to, like, valid research with honest sources from now on...
You forgot cliched running-through-the-airport kind of love.
And as far as #2, you can also put only-colored-guy-in-this-movie-is-being-cockblocked-while-the-White-guys-get-the-ethnic-chicks-Love.
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Can your wife and I be newest friends? I absolutely ADORE Love Actually!
I've experienced 2 of these....
Fun post though. Sometimes we just need a fun one for the heck of it.
this movie is my favorite movie ever. i could watch it 5 times a day.
thanks for doing a post on it!
and to answer the question more than five of them.
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@coolmonkey@xanga - Actually, the black guy marries and has sex with Keira Knightley while the white guy spends all his time hiring musicians, videotaping weddings, and making signs...
@john@xanga - That may be, but the way they frame the situation, the audience is supposed to be rooting for the White guy. I find it odd how this dynamic seems to only occur with the Black guy's fiancee.
10. good post... makes me want to watch the movie again!
I've experienced four out of the twelve.
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I love this movie.
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9, as well.
I think I'm nine for twelve as well.