Daily Dialogue — December 28, 2013

Christmas is all around me,
and so the feeling grows
It’s written in the wind,
It’s everywhere I go,
So if you really love Christmas,
C’mon and let it snow?

You know I love Christmas
I always will
My mind’s made up
The way that I feel
There’s no beginning
There’ll be no end
Cuz on Christmas,
You can depend

You gave your presents to me
And I gave mine to you
I need Santa beside me
In everything I do

You know I love Christmas
I always will
My mind’s made up
The way that I feel
There’s no beginning
There’ll be no end
Cuz on Christmas,
You can depend

Cuz on Christmas,
You can depend

It’s written on the wind
It’s everywhere I go
So if you really love me
C’mon and let it snow?
C’mon and let it snow?
So if you really love
C’mon and let it
If you really love me
C’mon and let it
Now if you really love me
C’mon and let it snow?

— Love Actually (2003), written by Richard Grant

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week is Christmas.

Trivia: One of the working titles is “Love Actually is All Around” taken from The Troggs’ song “Love is All Around”, written by Troggs lead singer Reg Presley. An alternate version by Wet Wet Wet featured in Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994) was at number one in the UK charts for 15 weeks in 1994, and Richard Curtis thought it would be amusing to start Love Actually (2003) with the same song that had driven everyone to distraction nine years earlier. For this film it is reworked by Bill Nighy’s character, who turns it into a Christmas song. “Christmas is All Around”, the resulting tacky joke theme song, was actually released in Britain in hopes that it would be “Number 1 for Christmas 2003”.

Dialogue On Dialogue: In an uneven movie, the role of Billy Mack, played by the wonderful actor Bill Nighy, is consistently funny. This song kicks off the movie and sets time, place and tone.

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