The Film 'Love Actually' by Bridget Jones
Love Actually Essay
The film trailers designed to promote the film Love Actually represent
a particular view of modern love and relationships. Explore this idea
within a media analysis framework.
From the makers of Bridget Jones’s Diary and Notting Hill, the film
Love Actually is a romantic comedy about igniting laughter, wrecking
havoc, breaking hearts, daring commitment and forcing choices. The
film is of a typical romantic comedy genre, which is targeted at
teenagers and adults. The key ingredients of a romantic comedy are
that it is optimistic and it has humour combined with love and
friendship. Usually, the genre has a universal appeal, which widens
the range of target audience. The notions of love and relationships in
modern society that the film trailers portray are realistic in some
relationships, but the main outcome is not. The film was released in
November 2003, which also coincided with the timing of Christmas. The
film was probably released at this auspicious time of the year, as it
is a time of joy when families get together. The DVD was released on
mother’s day, which is another significant day of the year.
As part of this media unit, we concentrated on the two commercial film
trailers of Love Actually. The main purposes of these trailers were to
give an insight into the film and to be used as a promotional tool to
attract viewers. Despite the two trailers promoting the same film,
they portray a different view of love and target at different age
groups and gender. In this essay, I will be discussing the different
ways the film trailers are designed to promote the film ...
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...t the idea of presents and love. In this
way the trailers are showing that the film will be a lovely gift to
someone who you love.
Romantic comedy is a popular genre because it appeals to a wide range
of audience from teenagers to older people and couples to even people
who are still single. The comedy is usually throughout the movie with
a twist in the end. The endings are always joyful, which also appeals
to families. The release date was taken into great consideration,
which was near to the time of Christmas. This gave the production
company an advantage, as they knew that this is a time of joy,
happiness and a time when everyone gets together. After all, movies
are about making money and a financial tool to entertain people and
this what the two promotional film trailers of Love Actually have
successfully done.
Scarlett by Alexandra Ripley "Scarlett" is about a southern woman who had survived the Civil War, had been widowed twice with two children. She got married again to Rhett Butler, and they had a daughter who was killed when she fell off a horse. Since the death of the child, her husband did not want anything to do with Scarlett. Rhett gave Scarlett all the money she needed, but she wanted him. Heartbroken, she went to Ireland where her father came from. She did not tell anyone in America that she was going, except for her lawyer. She met her Irish relatives, and loved them. She bought a town and a Big House in Ireland and had it refurbished. Scarlett found out that she was pregnant with Rhett's child, but before she could tell him, he divorced her and married someone else. She vowed to not tell Rhett about the baby until it was grown, even though she loved him. She told her Irish friends that she was a widow and that her two children lived with her sister on a plantation in Georgia, which she owned two-thirds of. She gave birth to a girl on Halloween and a wise old woman had to deliver her because the doctor couldn't get there. The Irish called the woman a witch and the baby a changeling because of when she was born for they were very superstitious people. They never liked the little girl and were always scared of her. One of Scarlett's cousins in Ireland was a priest, whose name was Colum O'Hara, and they had become good friends.
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