A Cock and Bull Story on BBC2
On 19th of August at 9:00pm, BBC2 will be showing A Cock and Bull Story.
"Dont let it end like this... tell them I said something."
Just watched it. Great film, lived up to my expectations.
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It was an excellent piece of work, yet, strangely, didn't quite live up to my expectations. Don't know what I was expecting, but the visual flair of the previous Coogan/Winterbottom collaboration was absent from this film. But I suppose the slower-pace of 'real' life made its' point clearer.
Will definitely get the DVD now I've seen it. I'm particuarly looking forward to the promised extended interview between Coogan and Tony Wilson - Hopefully a bit more postmodernism with Wilson perhaps critisising Coogan for his performance?
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You're not going to like this RockItRetro, but you clearly didn't 'get' the film. I imagine you were expecting The Parole Officer 2.
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I didn't really think the film thought it self "all so clever". I had moments were it easily could have dived into pretentiousness, but I believed they prevented the audience assuming that by properly and fully creating characters with similar pretensions and consequently destroying them in the same swoop.
A good example would be Steve Coogan and his baby. Earlier in their little meeting
Steve Coogan: He talks to the *beep* camera. He can be emotional. If you saw Walter for an instant holding the baby in his arms, then you would forgive him all his flaws.
Joe: Yeah, but it would look terrible. It'd be like the scene in Robin Hood where Kevin Costner delivers a baby.
Steve Coogan: Because he's got a stupid mullet haircut.
Then, although obvious, you see Steve doing the exact thing he described. I couldn't help forgive him for his flaws because of the sheer sincerity and love he showed for the child, it felt real. Yet they still managed to mock that feeling. The filmmakers intentions come across very clearly and I felt they succeeded.