Chatting about writing, The Muppets, DreamWorks, Clockwise and Charles Crichton, all with Mr John Cleese...
Now out in hardback is John Cleese's autobiography, So Anyway. It's a genuinely interesting read, very much written in his own voice, and he spared us some time to have a chat about it, and his career.
Here's how it went...
Can we start with the predictable stuff first, but I always wonder this when anyone writes an autobiography: why do it? Why put your life down in a book, who is it for, and did you enjoy it?
Well let's go backwards on that. Yes I enjoyed it very much. Who is it for me? In a funny kind of way it was for me, because some people seem to think that I've had a very interesting life, which compared with people who have fought in wars, and been spies, and discovered rivers in Africa,...
Now out in hardback is John Cleese's autobiography, So Anyway. It's a genuinely interesting read, very much written in his own voice, and he spared us some time to have a chat about it, and his career.
Here's how it went...
Can we start with the predictable stuff first, but I always wonder this when anyone writes an autobiography: why do it? Why put your life down in a book, who is it for, and did you enjoy it?
Well let's go backwards on that. Yes I enjoyed it very much. Who is it for me? In a funny kind of way it was for me, because some people seem to think that I've had a very interesting life, which compared with people who have fought in wars, and been spies, and discovered rivers in Africa,...
- 12/8/2014
- by sarahd
- Den of Geek
Sometimes it’s not enough to simply present your movie without remark, so over the years filmmakers and censors have devised various ways to make sure we know exactly what we are seeing before, or sometimes after we see it. Other times they get bored and, like anyone bored at work, decide to have a little fun with the process. 8. The Great Dictator Disavows Any Resemblance Between Charlie Chaplin And Charlie Chaplin The Great Dictator achieved something that no other comedy can ever dream to. After all, we can mock Hitler until the cows come home, but we’ll never get the opportunity to do it while he was alive to hear it. And supposedly, Hitler probably did see this film. That makes the opening disclaimer that much more funnier when the film claims, “any resemblance between Hynkel the dictator and the Jewish barber is purely coincidental”. A gag aimed toward the fact that they are not...
- 9/4/2013
- by David Christopher Bell
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
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