Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story

[telophase]

TS: AC&BS is basically meta-commentary on filmmaking. It's a film about making a film about the 18th-century comic novel Tristram Shandy, and the two stars of it, Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon play, respectively, Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon. I enjoyed it, but I didn't love it - I was in the mood for either straight comedy, or for something like Looking for Richard that focused more on the actual experience of making a film, instead of fictionalizing it. The part I liked the best was in the extras, under Behind the Scenes Footage, with Stephen Fry (who has a cameo in the movie as himself playing Parson Yorick) geeking out about Laurence Sterne, the author of Tristram Shandy. The sound was prety bad in that segment, unfortunately.

At any rate, if you're into meta-commentary on filmmaking, recommended, if you're just looking for a light comedy to pass the time with, not.

Comments

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

I love Looking for Richard.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

I like it quite a lot. I have to say that I prefer the idea of Shakespeare to Shakespeare himself - a lot of literature is like that, actually. I love reading and hearing about people geeking about it and talking about it and trying to winkle out aspects of it, but when I sit down to read the original source material, I usually bounce hard off it. XD

[rushthatspeaks.livejournal.com]

But... but that was the best ferret-related scene in recent memory!

And they did my favorite page in all of Stearn, the one with the single wavy line.

I need to see the DVD extras, although Thrud and I argued when we saw it in the theatre that it would be best if it came out in an extra-special-mega-deluxe edition in which when you selected the 'Special Features' tag absolutely nothing happened, and then after about five clicks there would be a short film of the actors looking sheepish and explaining that they never filmed that chapter.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

:) I think my favorite bits were with the recreationists, mostly because I used to know anoraks exactly like that.

I have not read the original novel - I think I've managed to age past the time when I could read 17th and 18th century prose for fun and not bounce off it. In highschool, I was a Tom Jones and Moll Flanders geek. XD