Deep Thoughts about Four Weddings and a Funeral
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In the words of David Cassidy, in fact, while he was still with The Partridge Family, I think I love you…
Join us this week as Tracie and Emily revisit the 1994 film Four Weddings and a Funeral that they first saw in the theater together. Not only did this film launch Guy girls’ long-standing fixation on Hugh Grant, the floppy-haired embodiment of the word diffident, but it also tells a nuanced and progressive (for the early 90s) story of gay romance, subverts the expectations of female sexuality, and offers some lovely disability representation. While not everything holds up to 30-year hindsight–the characters are all posh white folks with lots o’ money and Andie MacDowell’s character is a bit of a sexy lamp–this brilliantly funny movie is well worth the rewatch.
You are cordially invited to don your headphones and listen to this episode…
Mentioned in this episode
Four things to say about Four Weddings now it’s 25
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-84804/Four-Weddings-star-dies.html
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x752gdf
Our theme music is "Professor Umlaut" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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We are Tracie Guy-Decker and Emily Guy Birken, known to our family as the Guy Girls.
We have super-serious day jobs. For the bona fides, visit our individual websites: tracieguydecker.com and emilyguybirken.com
We're hella smart and completely unashamed of our overthinking prowess. We love movies and tv, science fiction, comedy, and murder mysteries, good storytelling with lots of dramatic irony, and analyzing pop culture for gender dynamics, psychology, sociology, and whatever else we find.
Chapters
1. Deep Dive Into Four Weddings (00:00:00)
2. Love and Timing at Weddings (00:12:13)
3. Reflections on Relationships and Choices (00:22:00)
4. Exploring Love and Relationships Through Film (00:36:22)
5. Examining Diversity and Gender Assumptions (00:53:38)
6. Cultural Analysis of a British Film (01:00:21)
7. Exploring Themes in Romantic Comedy (01:05:26)
8. Wedding Banter and Pop Culture Promotion (01:16:59)
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