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Hugh Grant has divulged a subtle “in-joke” hidden away in the “nauseating” final scene of Notting Hill.. The British actor appeared in the 1999 romcom as bookshop owner William Thacker ...
Notting Hill is a 1999 romantic comedy film directed by Roger Michell. The screenplay was written by Richard Curtis , and the film was produced by Duncan Kenworthy . It stars Julia Roberts and Hugh Grant , with Rhys Ifans , Emma Chambers , Tim McInnerny , Gina McKee , and Hugh Bonneville in supporting roles.
The author Neil Gaiman stated that he grew up reading Chesterton in his school's library, and that The Napoleon of Notting Hill influenced his own book Neverwhere. Gaiman based the character Gilbert from the comic book The Sandman on Chesterton, [108] and Good Omens, the novel Gaiman co-wrote with Terry Pratchett, is dedicated to Chesterton.
But after Notting Hill led to a spree of successful rom-coms in the early 2000s — Bridget Jones films, Two Weeks Notice, and the perennial Christmas season must-watch Love Actually — Grant ...
The Napoleon of Notting Hill is a novel written by G. K. Chesterton in 1904, set in a nearly unchanged London in 1984. Although the novel is set in the future, it is, in effect, set in an alternative reality of Chesterton's own period, with no advances in technology nor changes in the class system or attitudes of the time. It postulates an ...
“This door, until the time of cataloguing, was located at 280 Westbourne Park Road, Notting Hill, London and represented William Thacker's [Hugh Grant] front door in the 1999 Working Title ...
In the 1999 film Notting Hill, Julia Roberts' character Anna Scott sees a poster of La Mariée in the home of Hugh Grant's character, William Thacker. Later in the film Anna, in proclaiming her love for William, gives him the original.