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I’m watching Four Weddings and a Funeral for the first time

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Change17 · 14/08/2020 21:05

I know it’s a classic but somehow I’ve never watched it.
So I’m about an hour in and I just wanna get this straight ..

Carrie meets Charles. They sleep together. Charles finds out she’s in fact engaged and meets her fiancé. They sleep together again. And then she takes him with her to pick out a wedding dress .. that’s as far as I’m up to

What is happening here Confused I thought these two were one of the most iconic and popular couples in romcom history I had no idea this is how the relationship started 😂😂

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The80sweregreat · 16/08/2020 15:02

I really felt for Muriel's mum. Poor thing was depressed and over looked and her husband was just horrible! No wonder they were all so dysfunctional.

Hepcat75 · 16/08/2020 15:40

I love 'The Castle'! "What does he want for it?" "He's dreamin'!"

Kez200 · 16/08/2020 15:44

The romance between Carrie and Charles is rubbish but the film is epic. Sooo funny. Its not meant to be taken seriously!

Sojo88 · 16/08/2020 17:20

In Andie's defence re the "is it raining..." line - could anyone have delivered that well?! I think it was the line, not her!

Marlboroughdreams · 16/08/2020 17:24

@Sojo88

In Andie's defence re the "is it raining..." line - could anyone have delivered that well?! I think it was the line, not her!

Fully with you in this point! Even Judi Dench would struggle with that line, I think!!

Ellmau · 16/08/2020 18:13

I think it might have worked better without the "I hadn't noticed" part.

june2007 · 16/08/2020 19:24

The line was pure cheese but was fitting for the film.

Drinkingallthewine · 17/08/2020 15:57

I didn't get that Scarlett was Charles's sister. I thought they were flatmates.
Are you mixing it up with Notting Hill? There was a quirky character in that and she was HG's character's sister. In FWAAF, the quirky one was a flatmate.
I think!

CodenameVillanelle · 17/08/2020 16:37

@Drinkingallthewine

I didn't get that Scarlett was Charles's sister. I thought they were flatmates. Are you mixing it up with Notting Hill? There was a quirky character in that and she was HG's character's sister. In FWAAF, the quirky one was a flatmate. I think!
Wikipedia said she was his sister but that's Wikipedia for you
BikeRunSki · 17/08/2020 16:43

Charles, David and Scarlett are all siblings.

From IMDB

Also at the wedding, David (David Bower), the deaf younger brother of Charles and Scarlett, is targeted as an object of affection by a guest. We see that Fiona (Kristin Scott-Thomas) and Tom (James Fleet) are brother and sister and very wealthy and Gareth (Simon Callow) and Matthew (John Hannah) are a gay couple.

CodenameVillanelle · 17/08/2020 16:48

That's weird. I'm sure they were flat mates. Also Charles was posh and Scarlett wasn't.

Villanemme · 17/08/2020 17:01

That can't be right. At least we know where Wiki got the info though!

AlexisCarringtonColbyDexter · 17/08/2020 17:22

Also at the wedding, David (David Bower), the deaf younger brother of Charles and Scarlett, is targeted as an object of affection by a guest

OMG mind blown! I thought she was his flatmate

derxa · 17/08/2020 17:26

OMG mind blown! I thought she was his flatmate She is.

Trashtara · 17/08/2020 17:27

That's weird. I'm sure they were flat mates. Also Charles was posh and Scarlett wasn't.

Yes, it makes absolutely no sense that they'd be siblings. IMDb is wrong.

Bumblebum14 · 17/08/2020 17:29

My absolute favourite part is when Tom is giving his best man speech...
'When Bernard told me he was marrying Lydia I was relieved, because all of his other girlfriends have been such complete and utter dogs.....although may I say how happy we are to see so many of them here today.' Kills me.

Also Charles putting his foot in it with the man whose girlfriend now wife was allegedly bonking someone else.

belvoirbeaver · 17/08/2020 17:43

From
IMDB:
Backstories were given in a deleted scene. Charles (Hugh Grant), Matthew (John Hannah), and Fiona (Dame Kristin Scott Thomas) were at university together, and Gareth (Simon Callow) was a lecturer. Scarlett (Charlotte Coleman) was found under Charles' kitchen table after a party and has lived there ever since.

ToastedSausages · 17/08/2020 17:44

IMDB must have a real tin ear for social class is all I can say, if they think that Cockney sparrow Scarlett is Charles's sister.

Anyway, someone (clearly a major fan) up the thread quoted a bit from the screen play that said Scarlett was discovered asleep under a table at one of Charles's house parties and had never left.

Now thinking about how it would be possible to deliver the line 'Is it raining? I hadn't noticed' with any credibility. Maybe with a faint, embarrassed air of sarcasm, as though you're sending up the fact that not only did your mere presence at the wedding of someone you've slept with twice cause him to jilt his bride midway through the ceremony, but you're hanging around in a downpour outside his door to find out whether he really is into you? Maybe?

I've always been mildly puzzled by the fact that Carrie dresses down so much for Charles's wedding, where her outfit is much more similar to the one she wears to Gareth's funeral to the dressy pale suits she wears to the the first two weddings she's a guest at. Is it supposed to show her Inner Turmoil? Or just make her not look too ridiculous when she's drenched at the door at the end, when she would have looked far odder in a big soaking hat like the one she wears to the first wedding?

ToastedSausages · 17/08/2020 17:48

Oh, and my question is why Carrie invites all Charles' friends (whom she's met twice, at the first two weddings) to her own wedding. I know she says to David that it's to 'make up for all the gruesome stiffs Hamish knows' and the plot needs them to be there to torture Charles and kill off awful Gareth but it still seems fairly implausible, given that lots of her family and friends fly in from the US, and it's not as though there's no one for the bride's side...?

derxa · 17/08/2020 17:49

'When Bernard told me he was marrying Lydia I was relieved, because all of his other girlfriends have been such complete and utter dogs.....although may I say how happy we are to see so many of them here today.' Love it Grin

derxa · 17/08/2020 17:51

And the way the father of the bride says, 'Very disappointing!' to poor flustered Tom.

nitgel · 17/08/2020 19:30

@Chicchicchicchiclana

Enjoy Four Weddings it is about 100 times better than any other Richard Curtis offering.

It also has one of my most favourite ever movie moments in it. Kristen Scott Thomas is sitting next to an older woman at a wedding. Older woman asks her a question. Look on KST's face and the acerbic comment she makes in reply are absolutely priceless.

Rosalie Crutchley who was the housekeeper in The Haunting and lots of other films. Like seeing who has gone on to other films it just disappear.
Ellmau · 17/08/2020 19:40

I've always been mildly puzzled by the fact that Carrie dresses down so much for Charles's wedding, where her outfit is much more similar to the one she wears to Gareth's funeral to the dressy pale suits she wears to the the first two weddings she's a guest at.

Maybe she's short of cash having ditched Hamish and he paid for her wardrobe previously?

Clawdy · 17/08/2020 20:21

In an interview quite recently, Andie McD spoke ruefully about the "raining" line, and said she guessed she'd never be forgiven or forgotten for saying it!