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Saturday 16 December 2023

WHO SAYS WHAT IN "LOVE ACTUALLY"? & WHEN?



Here are some extracts taken from "Love Actually"'s dialogues. You have to guess who says them and in which scene from the film. Have a try... 
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(1)
"Whenever I get gloomy with the state of the world, I think about the arrivals gate at Heathrow Airport. General opinion's starting to make out that we live in a world of hatred and greed, but I don't see that. It seems to me that love is everywhere. Often it's not particularly dignified or newsworthy, but it's always there - fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, boyfriends, girlfriends, old friends. When the planes hit the Twin Towers, as far as I know none of the phone calls from the people on board were messages of hate or revenge - they were all messages of love. If you look for it, I've got a sneaky feeling you'll find that love actually is all around."
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(2)
- So what's the problem, Sammy-o? Is it just Mum or is it something else? Maybe... school - are you being bullied? Or is it something worse? Can you give me any clues at all?
- You really want to know?
- I really want to know.
- Even though you won't be able to do anything to help?
- Even if that's the case, yeah.
- OK. The truth is actually... I'm in love.
- Sorry?
- I know I should be thinking about Mum all the time, and I am. But the truth is I'm in love and I was before she died, and there's nothing I can do about it.
- Aren't you a bit young to be in love?
- No.-
- Oh, OK, right. Well, I'm a little relieved.
- Why?
- Well, you know - I thought it might be something worse.
- [incredulous] Worse than the total agony of being in love?
- Oh. No, you're right. Yeah, total agony.
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(3)
- Tell me, what would you do in my position?
- What position is that?
- Imagine your husband bought a gold necklace and come Christmas gave it to somebody else...
- Oh, Karen...
- Would you wait around to find out if it's just a necklace, or if it's sex and a necklace, or if worst of all it's a necklace and love? Would you stay, knowing life would always be a little bit worse? Or would you cut and run?
- Oh, God. I am so in the wrong. The classic fool.
- Yes, but you've also made a fool out of me, and you've made the life I lead foolish too.
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(4)
I love that word "relationship". Covers all manner of sins, doesn't it? I fear that this has become a bad relationship. A relationship based on the President taking exactly what he wants and casually ignoring all those things that really matter to, erm... Britain. We may be a small country but we're a great one, too. The country of Shakespeare, Churchill, the Beatles, Sean Connery, Harry Potter. David Beckham's right foot. David Beckham's left foot, come to that. And a friend who bullies us is no longer a friend. And since bullies only respond to strength, from now onward, I will be prepared to be much stronger. And the President should be prepared for that.
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(5)
- Tell me, exactly, how long it is that you've been working here?
- Two years, seven months, three days and, I suppose, what... two hours?
- And how long have you been in love with Karl, our enigmatic chief designer?
- Ahm, two years, seven months, three days and, I suppose, an hour and thirty minutes.
- I thought as much.
- Do you think everybody knows?
- Yes.
-Do you think Karl knows?
- Yes.
- Oh, that is... that is bad news.
- Well I just thought maybe the time had come to do something about it.
- Like what?
- Invite him out for a drink and then, after about twenty minutes, casually drop into the conversation the fact that you'd like to marry him and have lots of sex and babies.
- You know that?
- Yes, and so does Karl. Think about it, for all our sakes. It's Christmas.
- Certainly. Excellent. Will do. Thanks, boss!
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(6)
- So what's this big news, then?
- [excited] We've been given our parts in the nativity play. And I'm the lobster.
- The lobster?
- Yeah!
- In the nativity play?
- [beaming] Yeah, *first* lobster.
- There was more than one lobster present at the birth of Jesus?
- Duh.
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(7)
- No surprises?
- No surprises.
- Not like the stag night?
- Unlike the stag night.
- Do you admit the Brazilian prostitutes were a mistake?
- I do.
- And it would have been much better if they'd not turned out to be men?
- That is true.
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(8)
- What's that?
- It's a cinnamon stick, sir.
- Actually, I really, uh, can't wait.
- Oh, you won't regret it, sir.
- Wanna bet? [he ties it around the bag with a piece of string]
- 'Tis but the work of a moment. There we go. Almost finished.
- [sarcastically] Almost finished? What else can there be? Are you gonna dip it in yogurt? Cover it with Chocolate Buttons?
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(9)
- [after insulting the food] And what do you do Nancy?
- I'm a cook.
- Ever do weddings?
- Yes I do.
- They should have asked you to do this one.
- They did.
- God I wish you hadn't turned it down.
- I didn't.
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