Notting Hill

I. The film begins with William’s description of his neighbourhood.

Some of the locations are real.

   Of course, I've seen her films and
    always thought she was, well,
    fabulous -- but, you know,
    million miles from the world I live
    in.  Which is here -- Notting Hill
    -- not a bad place to be...

    There's the market on weekdays,
    selling every fruit and vegetable
    known to man...

    The tattoo parlour -- with a guy
    outside who got drunk and now can't
    remember why he chose 'I Love Ken'...

Notting Hill location: the guy who got the ‘I love Ken’ tattoo: Saints Tattoo Parlour, 201 Portobello Road, Notting Hill, London W11

     The racial hair-dressers where
    everyone comes out looking like the
    Cookie Monster, whether they like
    it or not...

      Then suddenly it's the weekend, and
    from break of day, hundreds of stalls
    appears out of nowhere, filling
    Portobello Road right up to Notting
    Hill Gate...

 
    ... and thousands of people buy
    millions of antiques, some genuine...

    ... and some not so genuine.

  
    And what's great is that lots of
    friends have ended up in this part of
    London -- that's Tony, architect
    turned chef, who recently invested
    all the money he ever earned in a new
    restaurant...

Notting Hill location: the failed restaurant of William’s friend, Tony: Portfolio, on the corner of Golborne Road and Bevington Road, London W10

    So this is where I spend my days
    and years -- in this small village in
    the middle of a city -- in a house
    with a blue door that my wife and I
    bought together... before she left
    me for a man who looked like Harrison
    Ford, only even handsomer..

Notting Hill location: the ‘blue door’ – William Thacker’s flat, blue again: 280 Westbourne Park Road, Notting Hill, London W11

Notting Hill location: William Thacker bumps into Anna Scott on the corner: Westbourne Park Road at Portobello Road, Notting Hill, London W11

 And so it was just another hopeless
    Wednesday, as I set off through the
    market to work, little suspecting
    that this was the day which would
    change my life forever.  This is
    work, by the way, my little travel
    book shop...

  A small unpretentious store... named 'The Travel Book Co.'

  
    ... which, well, sells travel books
    -- and, to be frank with you, doesn't
    always sell many of those.

Notting Hill location: Hugh Grant’s ‘travel bookshop’: Notting Hill, 142 Portobello Road, Notting Hill, London W11

Notting Hill location: the birthday party: 91 Lansdowne Road, Notting Hill, London W11

Notting Hill location: Anna Scott stays at the Ritz Hotel, Piccadilly, London

Notting Hill location: William proposes at the press conference: Savoy Hotel, 1 Savoy Hill, the Strand, London WC2

ANNA
    What's in there?

WILLIAM
    Gardens.  All these streets round
    here have these mysterious communal
    gardens in the middle of them.
    They're like little villages.

ANNA
    Let's go in.

WILLIAM
    Ah no -- that's the point -- they're
    private villages -- only the people
    who live round the edges are allowed
    in.

ANNA
    You abide by rules like that?

Notting Hill location: sneaking into the communal gardens: Rosmead Gardens, Rosmead Road, London W11

'For June, who loved this garden --
 from Joseph who always sat beside
 her.' 

Did you know before about memorial benches?

II. What is the film genre?

III. Conversaion topics:

  1. Have you ever had a brief meeting with a stranger that you couldn’t forget? What was the exchange? Where did it happen?
  2. If you could meet a famous person, who would it be? Why? Who is your favourite star?
  3. If you could meet a famous person, what would you say to him or her?
  4. Would you like to be famous? Why or why not? Does fame bring happiness? Is there a downside to being famous? If so, what is it?
  5. Why do you think people today are so interested in famous people?
  6. Did you like the film? Why (not)?
  7. Do you like the way the movie ends? Why (not)?

IV. There are some colloquial and slang words in the movie (script). Let’s comment on them!

V. And finally, a link to the Horse & Hound magazine.

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