Bad Santa (2003) and Love Actually (2003)

Film Stories with Simon Brew

Simon Brew

Film History, Tv & Film

4.9 • 813 Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2021

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

In the new episode of Film Stories with Simon Brew, a pair of Christmas movies, both released in 2003. Bad Santa was beset by problems. Conceived by the Coen brothers, it had a difficult shoot, lost Bill Murray to another film, and then there were huge battles in post-production. Post-production was tricky on Love Actually too, as a first-time movie director tried to jigsaw together a final cut of a multi-narrative film. It hadn't been the easiest movie to make, either. Stories of both are told in this episode. Find Simon on Twitter at @simonbrew, and the podcast can be found at @filmstoriespod. Support our work at www.patreon.com/simonbrew. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, this is Simon Brew. I'm editor of Film Stories magazine and a very warm welcome to the Film Stories podcast.
0:14.0	Come with me. And I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes. And movies. Movies that had stories.
0:22.1	That the story just sucks a man.
0:24.5	This is just the beginning.
0:27.1	We would be honored if you would join us.
0:33.9	Hello and a very warm welcome to film stories with Simon Brew. I am Simon Brew. That's all you need to know about me.
0:40.4	The aim of the podcast though, well, I'm here to talk of the stories of film. As title gives it away, really.
0:45.6	I talk about development stories, production stories, marketing stories, release stories, all those ingredients that go to make the films that we know and sometimes love.
0:52.9	Just that, the films that we know and sometimes love, just that, the films that we know and
0:54.9	sometimes love. The films I tend to choose for this podcast have more of a mainstream leaning to
0:59.9	them than anything else. They're also films I'm interested in or invested in to some degree.
1:04.8	I try not to punch down. I try not to do snart. This is a celebration of the fact that films get
1:09.8	made that it's really hard to make a film and I just want to salute those who managed to do so. This is a celebration of the fact that films get made, that it's really hard to make a film,
1:11.7	and I just want to salute those who managed to do so. This particular episode has a festive
1:16.8	flavour to it. It's got two Christmas movies to take you through. I'm going to play you a clip from
1:21.5	the first of them, and I'll come to the story of it, the other side of this.
1:26.4	You have all been chosen for the starring role as Santa Claus.
1:37.6	Damn it!
1:41.4	What do you want?
1:42.8	What do you want?
1:43.8	What are you doing? When do you want? What are you doing?
1:45.5	When it came to holiday spirit,
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