Favorite Movie Scenes, Take 3 (AKA: This One’s For Paula)
Like all my favorite movie, there’s more than one scene here that I love. In fact, there’s so many scenes in Love Actually that I could probably fill my favorite scenes list with scenes from that movie.
But, I have to pick one, and at the risk of turning this into a music based-lisrt, well, you just can’t go wrong with the Beatles, can you?
I remeber sitting in the theater watching this with my now-ex girlfriend and when the melody started playing and the choir started singing I just smiled. It still makes me smile. Everything about the scene feels so genuine and it sucks you in so much that you forget you’re watching a movie. I wish it went on for a few minutes longer, but sadly it cuts away as the guitar starts up. Still, it’s such a fantastic scene.
There are so many movies and songs experienced in that past relationship that I can’t revisit. Two years on, and alot of that still brings up bitterness in me. But not this movie, this is one that I took with me, one that trancends the regret and heartbreak that came out of it. Easily the best love story ever put to film…mainly because it proves John and Paul were right, it really is all you need.
