A Mighty Wind

hmmm, diminishing returns

I didn't say "criticize this movie trailer."

Heh. That was unfair. Like I said on another thread, "you have to expect a little dissent."

The film is not as funny as Best In Show, but it is very enjoyable. The combination of quirky characters and beautiful music works very well.

Many of us feel that a film about the British folk scene would have been way more fun, in a drunken shagtastic kind of way.

Agreed that would be phenomenal. You could send up the Watersons/Ashley Hutchings/Incredible String Band i suppose..

Re A MIghty Wind i still havent managed to see it yet, but im disappointed they had no place for Bob dylan/Pete seeger type characters. Perhaps 'Bob Roberts' is the definitive folk-parody movie.

Here's how Christopher Guest has responded to that, pete s:

"[Adding a protest singer] probably would have added too much baggage, because the undercurrent of their music was so serious. That's not what the story's about. We use folk music as a backdrop for a story about these characters and how they're trying to get back to that life.

We projected that on top of the main thing, which involves the situation with Mitch & Mickey. It's very emotional, and that emotion is what's at the core of the movie. You couldn't lay a heavy civil-rights thing on top of that."

And as it is there are undercurrents of protest throughout -- the vague sense of change coming in the title track, the Spanish Civil War song joke, etc. So it was suggested rather than hammered home.

pete s - this would be an apposite time to do such a parody and perhaps point out the cultural interlinking between such people and old conservatives, yes? somehow a lot of things seem to have come together lately, or maybe that's just my own obsession ...