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Four Weddings and a Funeral

Realizador: Mike Newell
Elenco: Hugh Grant, Andie MacDowell, Kristin Scott Thomas, James Fleet, Simon Callow, John Hannah, Charlotte Coleman, David Bower, Corin Redgrave, Rowan Atkinson.

Over the course of five social occasions, a committed bachelor must consider the notion that he may have discovered love.
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15 Splendid Facts About Four Weddings and a Funeral

Seemingly giving rise to the popularity of British rom-coms and launching the career of Hugh Grant, the Oscar-nominated Four Weddings and a Funeral documents the romantic misadventures of a group of friends - led by Grant's Charles - who attend, you guessed it, four weddings and a funeral.

1. SCREENWRITER RICHARD CURTIS HAD PLENTY OF EXPERIENCE WITH WEDDINGS.

Richard Curtis (co-creator of Mr. Bean and writer-director of Love Actually) told some publications that he had attended 65 weddings in 11 years, then upped the number to 72. The writer came up with the idea for the film after a girl at one of those many weddings wanted to spend the night with him. Curtis turned the offer down and said he had regretted it ever since. He also said he wrote Four Weddings and a Funeral partially to explain to his mother why he had never married. It took Curtis 17 drafts to come up with the final script.

2. HUGH GRANT WAS NOT THE FIRST CHOICE TO PLAY CHARLES.

When auditioning for the role that would make him famous, Grant (Bitter Moon, The Remains of the Day) gave producers a tape of his best man wedding speech to his brother, where he kept making fun of the groom’s eye sty. Grant claimed that he was "very much unwanted. Richard Curtis did everything in his power to stop me getting the part after the audition. I remember it was a very traumatic audition." Curtis admitted it was true, saying he thought Grant was “too handsome” for the part. At one point, Alan Rickman was set to play Charles; Alex Jennings (who later played Prince Charles in The Queen) was reportedly Curtis’ first choice for the lead.

3. JEANNE TRIPPLEHORN WAS ORIGINALLY CAST AS CARRIE.

Jeanne Tripplehorn was cast in the role, but had to drop out because of a death in her family. Marisa Tomei was also offered the part, but similarly turned the opportunity down because her grandfather was very sick. It was reported that Sarah Jessica Parker was Curtis’ top choice.

4. ANDIE MACDOWELL WAS INSPIRED BY KATHARINE HEPBURN.

Andie MacDowell wanted to play a character different than her sexually repressed character Ann in Sex, Lies and Videotape (1989). She was inspired by Katharine Hepburn because Carrie was, as MacDowell explained to Entertainment Weekly in 1994, “the kind of role she would have played 40 years earlier. She was forthright, the one with power and intelligence, and the guts to say and do exactly what she wanted.”

5. MIKE NEWELL’S AGENT’S ASSISTANT CONVINCED HIM TO TAKE THE DIRECTING JOB.

Mike Newell (Enchanted April, Donnie Brasco) was known to be picky. "It was handed to me in my agent's office by a very bright and forthright assistant who, knowing that I said 'No' to everything, sort of hit me in the chest with it and said, 'You should do that,’” the director recalled of getting the screenplay.

6. EXTRAS WORE THEIR OWN WEDDING CLOTHES.

Conservative MP Amber Rudd helped the producers out for the movie, getting dignitaries such as the Earl of Burlington and Simon Marquis, 3rd Earl of Woolton to make unpaid cameos (or accept an extra’s pay). Her help landed Rudd an “Aristocracy Coordinator” title in the credits.

7. THE BUDGET WAS ONLY 2.7 MILLION POUNDS.

The film was shot for £2.7 million, or roughly $4.4 million. It was so low-budget that the cinematographer Michael Coulter got the establishing shot of the Scottish wilderness while on vacation, and the same vicar—played by Rowan Atkinson—appeared at two of the four weddings so they wouldn’t have to pay two different actors. It was all shot in 36 days.

8. HUGH GRANT WAS PAID LESS THAN $60,000 FOR THE ROLE.

In today's dollars, Grant's payment for the part would equal $58,072. He was initially going to be paid £35,000; his agent asked for an additional £5,000.

9. GRANT WAS DEALING WITH ALLERGIES.

He had a bout of hay fever during production.

10. CURTIS HAD A REASON FOR NEVER REVEALING MOST OF THE CHARACTERS’ OCCUPATIONS.

“My argument was that when you’re hanging around with your friends, you don’t explain who you are," Curtis explained. " You don’t say, ‘Hello, Charles Bennett. How’s life at the bank since your father died?’"

11. AMERICAN FINANCIERS HAD A PROBLEM WITH ALL THE CURSING AND SEXUAL CONTENT.

They faxed notes claiming the sexual content and bad language would hurt the chances of Four Weddings and a Funeral being broadcast on American television, and specifically insisted on no oral sex or “excessive thrusting and screaming” orgasms. The U.S. distributors managed to have Newell and the actors re-shoot the first scene so that Grant says “bugger” instead of the F-word for a more family-friendly version to exist.

12. AT THE FIRST AMERICAN SCREENING, SOME PEOPLE WALKED OUT.

It was in Salt Lake City, Utah. The 30 person, Mormon-filled town council left the theater after witnessing the version of the opening scene with Charles saying "f**k." It was Grant’s first time seeing the entire film and he thought the walk-outs were a bad sign.

13. STUDIO EXECUTIVES WANTED THE TITLE CHANGED.

One claimed the title Four Weddings and a Funeral would turn men off from seeing it. Suggested alternatives included True Love and Near Misses, Loitering in Sacred Places, Rolling in the Aisles, Skulking Around, Toffs On Heat, Charles and Chums, and The Wedding Season.

14. SOME PEOPLE AT THE BRITISH PREMIERE WORE WEDDING DRESSES.

It was Richard Curtis’ idea. Two hundred of the 2000 people in attendance at Odeon Leicester Square got into the spirit. The wedding dresses were upstaged by Grant’s date, Elizabeth Hurley, and her famous black Versace dress, which was held together with oversized safety pins.

15. ANDIE MACDOWELL DEFENDS THE LINE EVERYONE MADE FUN OF.

MacDowell found herself having to defend the corny line about not noticing the rain. “‘The character was so in love, she wasn’t thinking about the fricking rain,” the actress told The Daily Mail. “I think perhaps it was raining a bit hard for the line. But that wasn’t my fault. Mike Newell was directing. I wasn’t going to disagree with him.” She said the scene was filmed in “six or seven” takes, and that nobody on the cast or crew thought “I didn’t notice” would become so well-known.
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Four Weddings And A Funeral cast 20 years on - seven marriages, four divorces, 17 kids and one funeral

It's the film that turned Hugh Grant into a worldwide heartthrob as charming-but-awkward hapless hero Charles.

And nobody can forget Four Weddings And a Funeral’s theme song – Wet Wet Wet’s Love Is All Around – which spent 15 weeks at the top of the charts.

Incredibly, when the movie was first released in 1994 its director Mike Newell was convinced it would flop – just like the fringe of its leading man.

The cast was largely unheard of, the budget was miniscule and the plot was causing concern with marketing teams across the pond.

Producer Duncan Kenworthy reveals: “I remember getting a memo from America saying, ‘only girls like weddings and no one likes funerals’.”

But the film became a global box-office smash. At the time, it was the most successful British film ever made – taking £200million worldwide and winning five BAFTAs as well as an Oscar nomination for Best Picture.

It made household names of the cast and also introduced the world to Elizabeth Hurley when she wore “that dress” to the premiere.

The film followed a group of upper-middle-class friends as they bumbled and boozed their way through the nuptials of their pals while Charles sought love with glam-yet-unattainable American Carrie.

Quite how this simple premise would prove to be such a hit, no one could have guessed. But years later the film continues to delight viewers. Its enduring appeal is ­undoubtedly down to the chemistry and charm of its cast.

Twenty years, seven marriages, four divorces, 17 kids (including love children) and one funeral on... we revisit the stars of the hit romcom.

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Hugh Grant (Charles)

THEN : Hugh had been in various obscure German and Spanish films and a handful of American TV mini-series. Screenwriter Richard Curtis said that at first he thought him too good looking for the part of Charles. But it ­catapulted Hugh, now 53, to stardom – as well as his partner at the time, ­Elizabeth Hurley, now 48, after she turned up to the London premiere in that safety-pin dress.

NOW : Although Hugh has never married, he has three children – a daughter and son with Chinese actress Tinglan Hong and another son with Swedish TV producer Anna Eberstein. Since Four Weddings, he has starred in a string of romantic comedies, including Notting Hill and Love Actually. He has said: “Part of what was ridiculous about my previous acting incarnation was that it was mainly serious.” And of Four Weddings, he added: “It changed my life for the better.”

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Kristin Scott-Thomas (Fiona)

THEN : She almost didn’t bother auditioning for the part of Fiona because she had been rejected by the director in the past and thought he didn’t like her. Also, producers at first said they didn’t think they could afford her air fare to come to the London audition. She was married to a French doctor at the time and lived in Paris.

NOW : She and her husband had three children but have since divorced. Kristin, 53, was Oscar-nominated for her role in 1996’s The English Patient. She still lives in Paris and continues to act in both French and British films to critical acclaim. However, she admitted after Four Weddings: “We did get pigeon-holed a bit afterwards. Playing the dignified and depressed character is something I’ve been escaping from ever since.”

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Simon Callow (Gareth)

THEN : He was a long-­established theatre actor before being cast as the exuberant Gareth. He was one of the first actors to come out publicly in 1984.

NOW : Simon, 64 – awarded a CBE in 1999 – continues to act in film, TV and theatre. He wrote in 2008 of the depiction of homosexuality in Four Weddings explaining how a scene showing Gareth and partner Matthew in bed had been cut. “They were right to do so: viewers had come to love them individually.”

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John Hannah (Matthew)

THEN : He was virtually unknown before being cast as “not posh” Matthew. His rendition of WH Auden’s Funeral Blues made him an overnight star.

NOW : Still a success he has starred in Sliding Doors and The Mummy series. John, 51, is married to actress Joanna Roth and they have two children.

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James Fleet (Tom)

THEN : He’d had numerous TV roles before being cast as bumbling posh boy Tom, but became typecast as a “nice-but-dim” character.

NOW : Married with one son, James, 60, starred in the BBC comedy The Vicar of Dibley and has since been in Citizen Khan.

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Andie MacDowell

THEN : Already a famous American actress, she was by far the biggest star in the film in her role as Carrie. She was married to former model Paul Qualley, and they had three daughters.

NOW : She continues to act, but divorced in 1999. A second marriage ended in 2004. Currently single, Andie, 55, said: “Four Weddings is the best script I’ve ever read.”

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Charlotte Coleman (Scarlett)

THEN : Charlotte was 25 when she was cast as the eccentric, but adorable, Scarlett. She had previously starred as a child in the TV series Worzel Gummidge.

NOW : She died suddenly in 2001 aged just 33 after an asthma attack. Work following the film was sporadic and she suffered from depression and eating disorders. She said in 2000: “I’ve learned with hindsight that I could have exploited being in Four Weddings and gone to America to promote it – but I didn’t.”

Anna Chancellor (Duckface)

THEN : After a few small TV roles Anna was cast as Charles’s ex-girlfriend Henrietta, known as Duckface. She has since told how she came to audition: “Someone said, ‘You really must audition because it’s about posh people f****** in the back of Land Rovers’.”

NOW : She most recently starred in the BBC’s Pramface and newspaper drama The Hour. Anna, 48 has said of Four Weddings: “It gave me a job, not massive fame, a working career.” She divorced her first husband in 1998 and has one daughter by a former boyfriend. She has remarried.

Richard Curtis (Writer)

THEN : Before writing Four Weddings, Richard was best known for his work on comedies such as Spitting Image and Not The Nine O’Clock News.

NOW : He’s written two of Britain’s highest-grossing films — Bridget Jones’s Diary and Love Actually — and has won two BAFTAs, as well as an Oscar nomination. Richard, 57, has four children with his partner Emma Freud.

20 years... in numbers

17 re-writes Richard Curtis did on the script.

One car used to pick up actors to take them to locations – they were collected one-by-one and shared a car to save on money.

35,000 - The number of pounds Hugh Grant was paid.

17,500 - what the rest of the ‘friends’ were paid.

6 weeks to film from start to finish.

One international stars in the cast – Andie MacDowell was the only actor anyone had heard of outside the UK.

Charles says “um” 24 times in the scene where he tells Carrie he loves her (“in the words of David Cassidy”).

1981 - the last time before Four Weddings a British movie had been a hit in the US. It was Hugh Hudson’s Chariots of Fire.

10 million dollars spent on publicity in LA alone – this was almost four times the amount spent on making the film.

13 F-bombs dropped in the first minute and a half.

15 weeks spent at number one for Wet Wet Wet’s cover of Love Is All Around (beaten only by Bryan Adams’ (Everything I Do) I Do It For You)

275,000 copies of WH Auden’s works sold following John Hannah’s rendition of WH Auden’s Funeral Blues

2.7million pounds - the total budget for the film. To cut corners, Scottish highland scenes were shot by the cinematographer’s brother while on holiday.

33 sexual partners Andie MacDowell’s character tells Hugh Grant she has had.

10 percent of audience members turned up to the film’s London premiere wearing wedding dresses, according to its producers.

£7million - The amount Hugh Grant was paid for his next movie, Nine Months, alongside Julianne Moore.

The film originally opened on in the US in Four cinema screens.

Five - number of ex-girlfriends Charles bumps into at the second wedding

Five - BAFTAs won, including Leading Actor for Hugh Grant, Best Supporting Actress for Kristin Scott Thomas, Best Director, Best Film and People’s Choice.

72 people auditioned for the role of Charles before Hugh Grant.
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Four Weddings And A Funeral, Roger Ebert

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Four Weddings and a Funeral," delightful and sly, is a comedy about people who seem to live out their lives in public, attending weddings. No doubt they have everyday lives as well, but the film doesn't supply them. Even in the case of the central character, a likable, shy, perennial best man named Charles (Hugh Grant), we're never told what he does for a living. Of course the film is British, and in Britain it is considered bad form to ask anyone what they do, so perhaps the film simply doesn't know.
The movie is about an extended group of friends. Some of them probably met at school, and others have married into their various families, and they all know each other, more or less.
Occasionally a new face pops up: Carrie, for example, the sparkling American girl who is a guest at the first wedding, turns up again at the second, and is scheduled to be married at the third.
Carrie, played by Andie MacDowell, is one of those women who is not quite as confident as she seems. She's smart and beautiful, but she is engaged to marry an older man named Hamish (Corin Redgrave) who is so thick, confident and overbearing that you figure no one would marry him who didn't need to. Sure, she says she loves him. But she is clearly falling for Charles, and he for her.
Their flirtation begins at the first ceremony, and their romance is consummated during the celebration following the second.
She does most of the aggressing, because Charles is too reticent to ever come right out and say what he really feels - not even if the happiness of a lifetime depends on it.
While Charles and Carrie fall in love, the movie introduces us in a haphazard way to a lot of the other members ofthe crowd. It's like being at a wedding. We glimpse people across a room, we meet them, we forget their names, we are reminded, and then we make a connection and figure outwho they're with - or not with, as the case may be. Among the regulars at all of the weddings, we grow especially fond of Gareth (Simon Callow), who eats too much and drinks too much, whose vest is too tight and manner too jolly, but who is, we can see, true blue. Eventually we catch on that he is gay, although in this as in most other personal matters the movie is subtle enough that we have to read social clues, just as we would at a wedding.
Other regulars at the ceremonies include Fiona (Kristin Scott Thomas), who used to date Charles and now would plainly like to start dating him again. Charles is doubly afflicted: He cannot tell a woman he likes her, and he also cannot tell her he dislikes her. He ends up back in Fiona's arms through a combination of loneliness, absent-mindedess and alcohol, and is engaged to her basically because he lacks the strength to make up his mind.
"Four Weddings and a Funeral" has been directed by Mike Newell, with the same kind of light-hearted enchantment that made his "Enchanted April" (1991) and last year's "Into the West" so seductive. Here, with his large cast, he moves nimbly through the crowd, making introductions with his camera. Luckily many of the scenes are set in large houses with room for the characters to creep away and engage in private drama.
Hugh Grant, the star of the film, has been in a lot of movies, but this may be the one that makes him finally familiar to American audiences. He has a self-deprecating manner, a kind of endearing awkwardness, that makes you understand why a woman might like him - and why he might drive her mad while tap-dancing around his real feelings. MacDowell is much more open and direct ("more American," the movie must feel), and so it's intriguing to realize that while she is in love with a man she can say anything to, she's engaged to a man she basically has to lie to all the time.
Like Kenneth Branagh's "Peter's Friends," this film forms a community that eventually envelops us. Also like that film, it's about how a homosexual character becomes a focus for much of what is best among the other characters, who are mostly straight; the gay man in both films is a center of good feeling, and helps create a sense of family. By the end of the movie, you find yourself reacting to the weddings, and the funeral, almost as you do at real events involving people you didn't know very well, but liked, and wanted to know better.
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Com tempo voltarei, mas é das comédias românticas mais divertidas que vi.
Andie MacDowell está lindissima em todo o filme, e todo o filme tem um charme difícil de repetir.
Para mim, a trilogia Notting Hill, 4 Casamentos e um Funeral e Amor Acontece (tirando a cena final da Lúcia Moniz) são 3 filmes obrigatórios e que casa vez que dão me prendem ao televisor. Dentro da comédia britânica dos anos 90/2x é muito bom mesmo.
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O mansildv gosta de criar tópicos de velharias da minha juventude...

Neste caso a situação foi a seguinte:

A minha namorada de então era também cinéfila como eu, e ela vinha a minha casa com o matacão do gravador VHS escondido dentro de uma mochila, para não ser assaltada (na altura era um perigo a rapaziada transportar um gravador VHS, por causa dos assaltos em Lisboa). A nossa ideia claro era acoplar (e não "copular" :lol: ) o gravador VHS dela ao meu , um bocado às escondidas dos nossos pais, com o intuito de gravarmos cassetes de filmes.

Ela insistiu em gravar este "Quatro Casamentos e um Funeral" (eu na altura estava a gravar a trilogia do "Mad Max" e afins), e por mim tudo bem, o problema é que ela não me deixou meter o filme a gravar e fugir, e fez chantagem emocional/sexual comigo, de forma a obrigar-me a visualizar o "filme de gaja". :lol:

Na altura em que fui obrigado a ver o filme (1995 ou 1996), até nem desgostei e pareceu-me cinema de intervenção para homens, contra o casamento. O que o filme não é nem nunca foi, é "comédia romântica", pois só um gajo distraído usaria esse rótulo, aqui comédia não há, e romance também não. O género do filme é o drama e o seu tom é triste e depressivo.

Para o tema, achei o filme bom, mas eu não gosto nada do tema, pois sou um gajo de sci-fi e filmes históricos, que gosta de temas filosóficos e pesados. O teor do filme ("Cautionary Tale", estilo contos populares europeus antigos, para avisar os homens a não se casarem) é demasiado trivial e inconsequente para os meus gostos... mau-)

Aqui fica mais um testemunho histórico do Zé! :roll: :lol:
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Rui Santos wrote: June 3rd, 2017, 1:44 pm Com tempo voltarei, mas é das comédias românticas mais divertidas que vi.
Andie MacDowell está lindissima em todo o filme, e todo o filme tem um charme difícil de repetir.
Para mim, a trilogia Notting Hill, 4 Casamentos e um Funeral e Amor Acontece (tirando a cena final da Lúcia Moniz) são 3 filmes obrigatórios e que casa vez que dão me prendem ao televisor. Dentro da comédia britânica dos anos 90/2x é muito bom mesmo.
Concordo, este filme tem um encanto difícil de repetir!
Confesso que acho bastante piada a alguns filmes deste género, como o Bridget Jones's Diary, Notting Hill, About Time e o Fever Pitch!

No entanto ainda não me veio aquela vontade para ver o Love Actually :wink:
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JoséMiguel wrote: June 3rd, 2017, 4:27 pm O que o filme não é nem nunca foi, é "comédia romântica", pois só um gajo distraído usaria esse rótulo, aqui comédia não há, e romance também não. O género do filme é o drama e o seu tom é triste e depressivo.
JoséMiguel, acho que na época em que viste o filme devias estar mesmo distraído, com algo mais interessante :wink:, porque, na minha opinião, é claro, este filme não deixa dúvidas em relação ao género!

Se vires a página da wikipedia referente às comédias românticas aparece:

Romantic comedy films are films with light-hearted, humorous plotlines, centered on romantic ideals such as that true love is able to surmount most obstacles.
[1] One dictionary definition is "a funny movie, play, or television program about a love story that ends happily".
[2] Another definition states that its "primary distinguishing feature is a love plot in which two sympathetic and well-matched lovers are united or reconciled".
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Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994) - 8/10

Um solteirão pensa ter encontrado a mulher dos seus sonhos mas a sua história vai dar muitas voltas ao longo de cinco ocasiões sociais.
Uma comédia romântica de eleição, com um charme irresistível e um excelente argumento do Richard Curtis, apoiado por um elenco impecável.
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mansildv wrote: June 4th, 2017, 12:42 pm
JoséMiguel wrote: June 3rd, 2017, 4:27 pm O que o filme não é nem nunca foi, é "comédia romântica", pois só um gajo distraído usaria esse rótulo, aqui comédia não há, e romance também não. O género do filme é o drama e o seu tom é triste e depressivo.
JoséMiguel, acho que na época em que viste o filme devias estar mesmo distraído, com algo mais interessante :wink:, porque, na minha opinião, é claro, este filme não deixa dúvidas em relação ao género!

Se vires a página da wikipedia referente às comédias românticas aparece:

Romantic comedy films are films with light-hearted, humorous plotlines, centered on romantic ideals such as that true love is able to surmount most obstacles.
[1] One dictionary definition is "a funny movie, play, or television program about a love story that ends happily".
[2] Another definition states that its "primary distinguishing feature is a love plot in which two sympathetic and well-matched lovers are united or reconciled".
Hehehe... agora estiveste muito bem! :lol:

Por acaso não voltei a ver o filme desde que a minha namorada de então, mo obrigou a fazer... A recordação que eu tenho do filme, é de um homem num casarão inglês, muito deprimido e descontente com a vida, possivelmente com instintos suicidas, a ser visitado por uns amigos da juventude, numa cena muito depressiva e reflexiva, tenho de ideia de ter havido uns putos imaturos/jovens amigos dele a casarem-se anteriormente, e depois ter havido chatices nessas relações.

Já se passaram 20 anos desde que vi o filme e não me lembro bem, mas julgo que o sub-género "Comédia Romântica" implica filmes com teor imaturo, fútil, irrealista e superficial, que julgo ser contrário e antagónico à lição de moral séria e depressiva deste filme...

Mais não posso dizer, pois não me lembro bem do filme. mau-)
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JoséMiguel wrote: June 7th, 2017, 8:44 pm Já se passaram 20 anos desde que vi o filme e não me lembro bem, mas julgo que o sub-género "Comédia Romântica" implica filmes com teor imaturo, fútil, irrealista e superficial, que julgo ser contrário e antagónico à lição de moral séria e depressiva deste filme...
Não obrigatoriamente na minha opinião.
Notting Hill é uma comédia romântica mas que toca em temas muito sérios como a popularidade vs perda de privacidade e o tabloidismo inglês.
4 Casamentos e um funeral, tem momentos amargos (nem que seja por lidar com a morte), mas tem vários momentos de comédia a roçar o genial... e nunca o classificaria como fútil irrealista e superficial. Aliás aborda de forma muito elegante e frontal a homossexualidade.
Amor acontece tem várias histórias muito muito interessantes (como a fama de um artista após passar pelo lodo, o primeiro ministro ser também um homem, as mulheres e o envelhecimento, a irmã que é mais mãe que irmã e que por isso não tem vida... apesar destes temas todos muito sérios, não deixa de ser uma comédia, cheia de graça... e que acaba o melhor possível (excluam a cena da Lúcia Moniz que é absurda)

Por isso a questão do teor imaturo ligo-a mais ao género filmes para adolescentes estilo Porkys, Gelado de Limão, American Pie.
Isso são comédias que se enquadram mais nas características que indicas, mas não são comédias românticas como as que indico.
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