The British Christmas classic Love in the Sky is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year and is showing in cinemas again in a remastered version. But, at least for some people, the film no longer seems as loving and positive as it did years ago. Discussants on the networks, as well as journalists, accuse him of being sexist, homophobic and gender stereotyped, for example.
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In an ABC special for the film’s 20th anniversary, director and screenwriter Richard Curtis said he felt stupid and uncomfortable because there wasn’t enough diversity in Love in Heaven. For example, it lacks the romance of a same-sex couple. “My film is definitely outdated in some moments,” admitted the director.
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Curtis also expressed regret about the film’s predominantly white heterosexual cast. “I wish I was a step ahead then,” the director said, adding that even the line where the prime minister’s secretary is mocked for her weight is inappropriate. “These jokes aren’t funny anymore, I don’t feel like I was mean back then, but I was inattentive,” the filmmaker explained.
According to him, it is also a generational problem. “In my generation, calling someone fat was funny. I remember being shocked five years ago when my daughter Scarlett said to me, ‘You must never use the word fat again.’ and she was right,” confirmed Curtis, adding that even his other films in which body shaming appears, such as Bridget Jones’s Diary, are outdated in this regard and can appear more vulnerable through the lens of today.
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