”Notting Hill” – a film with Hugh Grant and Julia Roberts
1) To-Do-List:
We watched three scenes from the film: ”Notting Hill”
The first one was about William’s Notting Hill:
William, the protagonist of the film, walks through the streets of Notting Hill. He tells something about the beautiful little things and details in his hometown and also his flat. Inside there is his flatmate Spike, preparing for a date. Williams helps him to get the right shirt for it.
The second one was in William’s bookshop:
William sells travelbooks. He’s the owner of a shop. In this scene he realizes that he’s making minus in his shop. His colleage reacts with the offer of getting a café. William makes jokes about his desperate situation.
The third scene we’ve watched was on the birthdayparty of William’s sister:
William brings Anna Scott, a famour actress, as a date. His friends react with enthusiasm and enjoyment on her. They talk to eachother and William’s sister believes in a deep friendship between her and Anna later on. After the meal there’s just one brownie left and they fight for it with telling their desperate and sad story of life: The one with the sadest wins. In the end also Anna tries to get it, but she didn’t get it. In the end William and Anna go home, talking about William’s family.
William is a stereotypical Englishman:
a) accent
William speaks a brilliant british accent. This makes him a sterotypical Englishman.
b) manners
He’s alway polite and friendly. There will never be a bad word on this lips. Quite british, I think.
c) reaction on failture
William seems to take failture with a joke and not as serious as for example an American would do. This seems to be a british attribute.
d) unterstatement
He’s understating all of the time.
His wife left him for a man – Well, he looked like Harrison Ford, no chance. He’s losing money – No problem!
The brownie competition:
This shows quite good the stereotype of the English: They all, all of the people on the table, life a happy live. They are lawyer or earn a lot of money or even have a beautiful man. But they all say that it isn’t that good. They are not saying: ”Yey, I’m so good. My life is wonderful” – Quite British…
In Germany this wouldn’t happen. The Germans are quite self-asured and feel comfortable with themselves. And they would also tell it.
Oh, I like this song so much:
