The gift-wrapping scene
and all things Bill Nighy-related are the high points in this sappy movie.
shareI really love this movie, and am always particularly surprised at how entertaining I find the gift wrapping scene. If it had been some other actor as the salesman the scene could have been really drab. However, the way Rowan Atkinson spoke and moved as he kept adding more and more to the packaging...cinnamon stick...dried roses...sprig of holly...then when he popped it into the Christmas box that would be impossible to hide from his wife...too funny.
This is so much more than a bag.
Originally Rowan Atkinson was supposed to be some type of an Angel, but they decided not to. I am guessing thats why at the end he is at the Airport and helps out Sam. I wondered if also that is why he takes so long wrapping the package and what you said about it being to big, like he was trying to keep him from buying it, knowing it wasn't for his wife?
shareHe also took forever wrapping the gift allowing Karen to catch Harry at the jewelry counter. At first I thought it was just a quirky funny scene. When I saw him pop up at the airport, I realized he was a sort of 'hero' figure in the movie. That's interesting about him being an angel.
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