Re-Appraising Keira Knightley's Hat in Love Actually

Last week, to coincide with Britain’s Red Nose Day, a biennial telethon, a quickie sequel to “Love Actually” was released. Naturally this left me, author of the definitive Keira Knightley’s Hat In “Love Actually” Could Engender World Peace If We’d Merely Let It piece, wondering if she would also be sporting a hat in this “Love Actually” Red Day sequel, especially since in these fraught times another headdress-styled plea for amity felt necessary. And while she is, based on images filling up “Love Acutal”-ist corners of the internet, sporting a sweatshirt touting LOVE, rendered in rainbow colors that one might connect to the LGBTQ movement, her head, sadly, remains sans hat.

Keira Knightley Does Not Wear A Hat in the “Love Actually” Sequel

But the story does not end there. No, for the “Love Actually” character, played by Andrew Lincoln, who famously pined for Knightley’s Juliet does return, apparently outside her door once again, though in the company of another woman. She is played by Kate Moss. Kate Moss is wearing a hat.

Kate Moss Wears A Hat in the “Love Actually” Sequel 

In her book “Magical Fashionista: Dress for the Life You Want”, Tess Whitehurst delineates between the “Confident Hat” and the “Incognito Hat.” The former, she explains, “Direct(s) the energy of (confident) thoughts and feelings into the hat” while with the latter, she writes, “People notice me when I wear it, but I don’t feel like they notice me exactly, at least not my innermost self.” And so while at first having Kate wear a hat but not Keira seemed a shot directly across the bow of all us Keira Knightley “Love Actually” hat-ologists, I found myself, upon considering the words of Ms. Whitehurst, re-evaluating. It got me to thinking that even if Keira Knightley’s hat in “Love Actually” could engender world peace if we’d merely let it, perhaps there was something else behind the hat, something artistic, a costume design choice that I failed to glean given all my inane Keira In Hat memes.

In “Pirates of the Caribbean”, for instance, Keira channeled all her confidence into the hat.

In “Love Actually”, however, given that the scene in which she wears the famed hat, arrives at a particularly delicate moment, when she is trying to make peace with the person she doesn’t think likes her, though she quickly realizes that is not the case, leaving her that much more vulnerable, the hat becomes a symbol of sudden desire to go incognito, to disappear.

In other words, it’s not simply that Keira wears hats; it’s how Keira wears hats.

keira knightley wearing a hat

It's dark out there, friends. It's real dark. And while we are typically compelled in times of such darkness to share an image of Keira Knightley, this blog's official cinematic crush, in a hat in order to brighten the mood, well, times are so dark that no brightening the mood was possible. No, this is the only Keira Knightley In A Hat image that'll do.....

Blog Housekeeping – Change Your Bookmarks, if you actually had them

Welp, the day Cinema Romantico assumed would never arrive because, frankly, we didn’t care anywhere near enough about it has finally arrived because of a light kick in the pants received from other quarters. This is to say, Cinema Romantico is dropping the (non)dreaded blogspot from its name to go for something more ostensibly professional.

We had simply hoped to change this still-a-blog to cinemaromantico.com and be done with it so we could get back to posting pictures of Keira Knightley in hats ASAP. In a tragic twist, however, some film festival that apparently hasn’t existed since 2006 still has dibs on that domain name, and since all we have to offer as payment for our preferred cinemaromantico.com is half a cup of leftover cold coffee from this morning, that option was nixed. We thought about, for half a second, changing this still-a-blog’s name, but the only acceptable new moniker was The Capri, and aside from old school Des Moineseans who drive past 4115 University and get misty-eyed, everyone would be going “huh?” Heck no, this still-a-blog is still Cinema Romantico.

That brought it down to the abhorrent (so “they” tell me) .net or the equally repellent (so “they” tell me) .org, either one of which will probably (so “they” tell me) harm readership. But then, Cinema Romantico has always been extraordinarily poor at cultivating readership, combing for clicks and analyzing stats, never mind that we would rather read back issues of Movieline from the 90s than network, online or in person, ye gods.

We could have flipped a coin to decide our new interwebs address but we decided to go with .org, because “they” tell me .org is intended more for sites that fancy themselves non-profit. And Cinema Romantico isn’t just non-profit; it’s anti-profit. We would rather throw money out a window then make any, are you kidding. We are, after all, as our LinkedIn profile we haven’t checked in over five years proclaims, cinephilanthropists.

So anyway, this here still-a-blog is now cinemaromantico.org. Everything should auto-redirect but still, make the necessary bookmark updates or corrections to your interwebs elocution provender so you can keep reading, or ignoring. Cheers. Now, back to the important stuff.

Keira Knightley In A Hat

It's Keira Knightley's birthday today. So obviously, here's her in a hat.

KEIRA KNIGHTLEY WEARS HATS!

With so much unrest and unhappiness in the world, let's take a moment today to simply see Keira Knightley wearing some hats...