I got a feel that compromises were made to make the movie watchable as a self-contained story.
One example was when asked about his history with guns, he failed to mention that he was once arrested for murder for shooting a man through the heart with an antique pistol. The police also failed to bring this up.
Can anyone else point out anomalies like this. I am a fan so.. it really bothers me that the writers had to compromise.
One big anomaly which has never been addressed in any of the radio or TV series is Alan's wife dying and subsequently rising from the dead as a zombie. This was mentioned in two consecutive episodes of "On the Hour" in which Alan first appeared as the sports reporter in this wonderfully funny radio series.
shareYeah. Some of the early stuff was crazy.. but that was before they realised that the Alan character had legs and writers started to make him real.
All backstory should really be accepted from the 'autobiography' (doesn't mention zombies). But then.. it says he went to Tokyo to cover sport, but in I'm Alan Partridge he said he has never been to Tokyo. Don't writers know better than fans!?
He was always violent was that Partridge. He knocked someone out with a stuffed turkey once, live on tv.
Its that man again!!
I like to think that Partridge is simply the kind of guy that would ignore and/or forget the fact that he killed a man live on TV because it didn't really do anything to bolster his standing in the entertainment industry or he doesn't want to give the game away that he's the kind of guy that shouldn't be around any firearms.
If you read his 'autobigraphy' - 'I, Partridge: We Need To Talk About Alan' there are several occasions where any fan of the 'I'm Alan Partridge' TV series will know he embellishes certain stories in the book; for example, the lunch meeting with Tony Hayres is nothing like what happened in the series but that was the beauty of the book - we know he's a billy bullshi**er so when he's describing how something happened, we know he's totally lying, simply to boost his ego.
I also like to think that Partridge is such a non-entity that it wouldn't even be in anyone's memory that he killed a man live on air all those years ago either.
I do however think it would have been nice to refer to it really subtly, such as having Alan's eyes wander and Forbes McAllister's voice echoing in the background saying "Be careful with that!" before Alan snaps back into reality.
Maybe there was a copyright issue doing something like this?? If not, Coogan et al may go all George Lucas and add this in, in 25 years or so!
That was actually the only thing that grated on me about this film. In the book, I, Partridge after shooting Forbes McAllister to death he goes into a lot of detail about what happened afterwards and then in this film he mentions that he'd never been in a police car - pfft! It annoyed me... I'm a nerd you see!
shareThey've never been very consistent from project to project.
I mean, episode 1 of I'm Alan Partridge is all about Alan having a friendly meeting with Tony Hayers. The fact that last time they saw each other, Alan punched Tony in the face twice, knocking him out on the second, isn't even mentioned.
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