Daily Dialogue — October 21, 2018

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.”

— Love Actually (2003), written by Richard Curtis

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Opening Line.

Trivia: The airport greeting footage at the beginning and end of the film is real. Richard Curtis had a team of cameramen film at Heathrow airport for a week, and whenever they saw something that would fit in they asked the people involved for permission to use the footage.

Dialogue On Dialogue: If a movie’s opening lines are done as voice-over narration, chances are they will involve the story’s central theme… as here with “love actually.”