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SalaciousMonkey22 said:
Day 12: a romantic holiday movie that is your personal favorite and why....

A NYE tradition for many years with my wife and I, and a movie that I always forget how much I like until I’m watching it again.

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I have so many quotes from that movie I just drop into conversation.
 
A romantic holiday movie that is your personal favorite and why

There are real-world reasons, involving an almost existentially romantic date, that I love this one, but just as a film, it is fantastic as well. There was a stage play, called Parfumerie. It was adapted as my choice, The Shop Around the Corner, in 1940; then as a 1949 musical film with Judy Garland and Van Johnson; a Broadway musical from 1963; and finally as 1998's Nora Ephraim film with Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks. (Every adaptation has a different title). The reason the play has been adapted so many times is that its plot is perfect for a romantic comedy: two people, antagonists in their normal lives, accidentally become anonymous pen pals and fall in love without knowing it. Hijinks ensue, and it all is resolved by Christmas Eve. RomCom in a nutshell, but so fucking good. (Saw the play as well. It is an underappreciated gem.)

The Shop Around the Corner has Jimmy Stewart as a Budapest luggage store's top employee, and Margaret Sullavan as an American who gets hired by Stewart's boss after selling something Stewart claimed was unsellable. Antagonism ensues. But unbeknownst to each other, the pair have already been pen pals since the day he responded to her personal ad in a New York newspaper. They are in love, but also so in love with the idea of being in love that they are blind to the person in front of them.

I enjoy this film far more than the more famous adaptation, mostly because of how film has changed in the 60 years between them. For example, the famous café scene, where the guy realizes the woman he fights is the woman he loves, but doesn't let her know. The 1940 version, influenced more by stage plays, lets this play out in 19 shots, mostly of both actors together the whole time. The 1998 version, influenced by the fast cuts of music videos and commercials, is 133 shots in almost the same amount of time, primarily close-ups. The original has a much more organic, romantic feel, and that permeates the whole film.

This is classic old Hollywood. Stewart is intelligent, aggravating, and romantic. Sullavan is quick, aggravating, and clever, and unfortunately was in only 16 films (including one where she was nominated for an Academy Award), preferring the stage to the Studio System of the times. It is fun, but there is also an undercurrent of anxiety with the pair, underlining how often we can miss magic by just this much. It is a wonderful film.

The Shop Around the Corner

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UnquietDreams said:
A romantic holiday movie that is your personal favorite and why

There are real-world reasons, involving an almost existentially romantic date, that I love this one, but just as a film, it is fantastic as well. There was a stage play, called Parfumerie. It was adapted as my choice, The Shop Around the Corner, in 1940; then as a 1949 musical film with Judy Garland and Van Johnson; a Broadway musical from 1963; and finally as 1998's Nora Ephraim film with Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks. (Every adaptation has a different title). The reason the play has been adapted so many times is that its plot is perfect for a romantic comedy: two people, antagonists in their normal lives, accidentally become anonymous pen pals and fall in love without knowing it. Hijinks ensue, and it all is resolved by Christmas Eve. RomCom in a nutshell, but so fucking good. (Saw the play as well. It is an underappreciated gem.)

The Shop Around the Corner has Jimmy Stewart as a Budapest luggage store's top employee, and Margaret Sullavan as an American who gets hired by Stewart's boss after selling something Stewart claimed was unsellable. Antagonism ensues. But unbeknownst to each other, the pair have already been pen pals since the day he responded to her personal ad in a New York newspaper. They are in love, but also so in love with the idea of being in love that they are blind to the person in front of them.

I enjoy this film far more than the more famous adaptation, mostly because of how film has changed in the 60 years between them. For example, the famous café scene, where the guy realizes the woman he fights is the woman he loves, but doesn't let her know. The 1940 version, influenced more by stage plays, lets this play out in 19 shots, mostly of both actors together the whole time. The 1998 version, influenced by the fast cuts of music videos and commercials, is 133 shots in almost the same amount of time, primarily close-ups. The original has a much more organic, romantic feel, and that permeates the whole film.

This is classic old Hollywood. Stewart is intelligent, aggravating, and romantic. Sullavan is quick, aggravating, and clever, and unfortunately was in only 16 films (including one where she was nominated for an Academy Award), preferring the stage to the Studio System of the times. It is fun, but there is also an undercurrent of anxiety with the pair, underlining how often we can miss magic by just this much. It is a wonderful film.

The Shop Around the Corner

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I love this film. <sarcasm>I guess Jimmy Stewart can make a good Christmas movie.</sarcasm>
 
curious_slut said:
Day 12: A romantic holiday movie that is your personal favorite and why

I kind of fell in love with Bridget Jones in the books and Renée is perfectly charming in the films, plus Mr Darcy (😍), so Bridget Jones's Diary is one of the few romcoms that gets rewatched.

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This was number 2 on my list.
 
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