Love Actually: Opening scenes

Love actually is very famous british comedy film, staring many great actors and actresses, such as Hugh Grant, Bill Nighy, Colin Firth and Emma Thompson. Even though the film is more of a romantic comedy, the opening scenes create great humor and is a film that we should look at to help our ideas for the opening scene.

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The first scene the audience sees in the film are lots of shots of people hugging and kissing each other at a terminal airport. This scene hasa voice over of Hugh Grant talking about Love. This automatically tells us as viewers that this is going to have elements of romance in the film. At the end of this scene, the title of the film is given " love actaully".

The next scene we see is of Bill Nighy creating a changed cover of a famous song. Bill has already made a mistake in the song and on the second attemped ( 2:47 to 2:54) he also makes a mistake, but then comes out with a variety of swear words to get out his anger. Humor is created here because the audience knew Bill had made a mistake, but did not expect the many swear words to come out of his mouth. He then correctly sings it on the third attemped and nearing the end of the cover, he realises how bad the song is. Whilst the background singers are doing their job he asks the producer "This is shit isnt it?" with the producer agreeing. Humor is created here because the audience are not expecting Bill to say that whilst the tape for the song is still going on.

The next scene we see is of a mum and her daughter having a chat about the Nativity play the daughter is in. The mum is all Excited to hear what part her duaghter will be playing, when she answers with " Im the lobster". Humor is created here because the mums face drops from excited to sad as most people never knew a lobster could be in a nativity play.

The next few scenes are all about how we can expirence love, with one of the shots being of a man and a woman pretending to have sex. Humor is created here because It is a shot which is totally random to the situation but has links to the film title. We then see more shots of love includding a wedding which is about to happen.

Finally, we then have shots of the new prminister (Hugh Grant) walking to his house at 10 Downing Street. We walk through the house were we meet the staff. First we meet "Terrance" the man in charge of running the house. The priminister then tells a story about his Uncle Terrance who was a peedophile. Humor is created here because it doesnt send out good vibes for the man in charge. We then meet Pat who is the main House keeper. Humor is created here becuase the new priminster is refering to the old priminister (Tony Blair) and his family. We then meet a new member of staff who is clearly nervous to meet the priminister. She starts off by saying his real name instead of "sir". She then realises this mistake and swears out loud twice. Humor is created here because no one should ever swear infront of a priminister let alone swear twice.

The opening scenes to " love actaully" have many humorous texts and have been made funny in similar techniques. We should use this as a way to help making our film funny and interesting.