"Notting Hill" is a romantic comedy that I give five stars, Julia Roberts is also my favorite, it's hard to imagine that I have never written even a single word for them, and it was very accidental yesterday that I opened it up again After reading "Notting Hill" on the mobile hard disk, I suddenly felt the urge to write. This is the charm of Notting Hill and the charm of Julia.
What makes
a film, especially a modern romantic comedy, feel real and believable? It's not how close the hero and heroine are to ordinary people, or how realistic and reliable the script is, but the most important thing is how the whole atmosphere is created. At this point, the film adopts a very concise and powerful approach. From the very beginning, the camera follows Hugh Grant's figure into Notting Hill slowly, accompanied by his personal characteristics to let us understand little by little. This neighborhood easily shows the characteristics of Notting Hill in the first three minutes of the film, and cleverly uses Hugh's narration to show Hugh's character: "There are a lot of antiques sold here, some are real, some, not so real." The male protagonist who is difficult to say "fake" and "fake" directly is not a man with a glib, but the kind of man who can't find anything to say or even speaks full of loopholes when he is nervous. The cleverer part is that its first shot is for Julia on the ad, directly proclaiming her superstar status, blending her American stardom with Notting Hill's British flair for the first time. In Hugh's narration, he didn't forget to take Julia along for the heroine's first invisible appearance.
Accompanying the opening is She, which runs through and through, and from the beginning, you understand that simply juxtaposing this film with similar romantic comedies (especially recent films) is actually quite an insult.
Some people think that the OST of the film is better than the film itself. In fact, this person should have discovered him when the British veteran Elvis Costello was half-purple and not red. He should not have passed through this film, and should not have passed through this so appropriate She. And Ronan to them must not be romantic to death When You Say Nothing At All.
The most attractive part of romantic comedies is the love between the hero and heroine, but what makes people easily integrate into it is mostly driven by some wonderful supporting characters. Martin, who is a little boring, Spike who is weird and rash, Honey who chases after stars with bright eyes, and Bernie who is even a little vulgar in life... They appear not only to create this British style, but also to set off Julia's identity, Hugh's character, they not only add such jokes to the comedy, they are also responsible for connecting the plot, and even use their own love experience to explain the truth of love to the hero and heroine and even us outside the play. Don't think that the love triggered by Honey's "by the way" is an unintentional work by the screenwriter. He just wants to tell us: love at first sight is so simple, love is so irresistible, and it is so easy to let go of everything and risk your life. Even such an unreliable Spike can make Honey fall in love easily, let alone the brightest star in the sky? The love between Max and Bella is even simpler: even disability can't stop love, not to mention the simple nationality and status difference?
It is not right to put the supporting role completely above the male lead, especially when he just struggled out of the Tianzi No. 1 scandal and gave his best performance since filming. This character is almost the opposite of Hugh. Except that they are British, they have nothing in common. Hugh, who is usually slick and knows how to please girls, is so clumsy in the play. Facing Julia, he broke almonds and honey. He didn't even want to admit the bouquet of flowers he bought, and in the end he even used the word "bitch" to fool him. Some people are dissatisfied with the way he talks in big circles, but this is precisely the character of the character, a cowardly boy who is so nervous that he is so nervous that he is afraid that people will not understand him.
Really above the male lead is the great screenwriter Richard Curtis, the greatest romantic comedy screenwriter in my opinion, he has countless business cards, but there is no doubt that Notting Hill is the best boutique in . He ingeniously set up many foreshadowings and small echoes, which makes people seem to understand that they will smile and make the plot flow smoothly. The most obvious thing is that the male and female protagonists face each other on the rooftop. Hugh inadvertently mentioned that he likes Henry James's script. The next time Julia returns to the UK is for Henry James's British film with horses and dogs! On one side, Julia exaggerated her life of being on a diet, starving, and being beaten by men. On the other side, she responded slightly embarrassedly to Bella's taste of guinea fowl, "I'm vegetarian." Two hours later, her big star Her boyfriend also made a cameo appearance, helping Julia cut off her love for the first time. In a more hidden place, Spike found the diving suit and the diving glasses from Hugh's wardrobe. He was pulling Hugh to watch Julia's movie. While completing Hugh's reverie facing the camera, he showed Julia, and he didn't forget to take this opportunity to sit and sit. Hugh's eyes, which directly led to Hugh's hilarious appearance in the movie theater with the oversized diving glasses.
The original intention of Curtis' creation is to show a story that "appears at a friend's house with a big star". You may say that this is a fairy tale, but isn't a classic such as "Roman Holiday" a fairy tale? You can say it's a fairy tale, but you can't despise it and despise it - we don't need to show our maturity and how much insight into the movie or life in this way. Any rom-com that doesn't look like a fairy tale or doesn't have fairy tale elements is definitely not a good rom-com, just not too fanciful. If you watch a romantic comedy and wish it didn't have any fairy tale elements, or even criticize the film for it, oh my! Can't you even have more than 90 minutes of childlike innocence? Has your mature life been so indifferent that your heart is like iron? Before such an excellent script, you can't relax your tense nerves a little. Should you review the script or your current mood? Turn right when you go out, it's not a science fiction movie, it's a fairy tale. Ethics film? That, too, is artistic processing. Documentaries are where you belong. Richard Curtis is not for you, don't force yourself.
The star on Notting Hill
I have always thought that only Julia Roberts in the film can be compared with Richard Curtis.
The Hollywood star she plays is almost herself, even in her life she married an unknown photographer and gave birth to twins. I prefer to call her Star rather than Actress, not to belittle her acting skills, but to admire her magical charm. She has an affinity that instantly attracts the audience, making the audience take her sorrows and joys as their sorrows and joys, take her feelings as their feelings, and even walk into the cinema involuntarily. A shinning star is nothing more than this.
Many of the details in the film are simply familiar to her. Facing the thief who stole the book, she could arrogantly and directly satirize when she presented the autograph; facing the nervousness of others, she could be calm and calm; facing the nonsensical question, she could pretend to be thoughtful and respond skillfully... ...
but in my opinion, just as Notting Hill is blessed to have her star, she is also blessed to have the famous mountain of Notting Hill.
This gave her a chance to say too much to all the audience in front of the camera.
"One day when I get old, they will find that I can't act at all, and I'm just a passing star who looks a lot to them!" - Julia at her peak definitely had such doubts about herself , how will this sparrow-turned-phoenix story that started ten years ago come to an end.
"Believe me, it's really nothing." - Julia at that time undoubtedly wanted the Oscar, but she could have this opportunity to make her laugh at it. Feelings like Paul Newman. In fact, more often, Oscar does not favor certain people not their loss but Oscar's loss.
"$15 million" - this is one of my favorite short dialogue confessions, another is Sophie's "36B, no, C."
"Both. Equally." - Mel Gibson's bottom! Julia wanted to use this opportunity to make fun of her friend. Like that scene in the restaurant, a tribute to another great rom-com heroine, Meg Ryan. Although their two films are two different styles. Julia focuses on "love" and Meg focuses on "love". Julia's film likes all kinds of chance encounters, and then forgets the love of identity difference; and Meg prefers two people who never really know each other, but love each other from afar, and the love is like a faint affection. The former is "Pretty Woman" and "Notting Hill", the latter is "Sleepless in Seattle" and "Electronic Love Letter".
Of course, this tribute scene was used to let Hugh show the man's side, and it also gave Julia a chance to express that bad breath: too many people are making malicious speculations behind her at will, how much do they know? It's just a bunch of people who talk nonsense, but they will never know how much harm their unintentional words can cause to the parties. "The person you're talking about is a real person, so she deserves more respect from you. You shouldn't talk nonsense like that."
"You know, fame is not practical, don't forget, I'm just a girl, standing in the shoes of a boy. In front of him, ask him to love her." - Many people think this confession is untrue, and even think that Hugh should not turn back to this woman who rejected him twice. But do you think about it from her perspective? Julia has always been the dazzling star. She can't get rid of people's stereotypes about her, whether it's a vase or an Oscar, so she needs to never compromise; An ordinary photographer. All this is really like a skin-to-skin fable, who dares to say that it is not true, that it is too much of a fairy tale? Nicolas Cage has a Korean wife who serves dishes. Isn't the handsome British Hugh Grant any worse?
Surreal...but nice.
Not only is Hugh's clumsy comment on his encounter with Julia in the film, it's a comment the movie deserves, and a comment Julia deserves.
At the end of the film, Julia said the last line. When the audience was shocked, her smile slowly opened, and the smile of the logo illuminated the world. The world's highest paid actress and the world's most attractive actress should be like this.
"How long are you intend to keep Notting Hill in you hard disk?"
"Indefinitely!"
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