The Dangers of Watching a Film with a Radio Comedy Nut

[tealin]

Scene: Late on a Thursday night, three people lounge on sofas. Upon the screen is the rather bizarre movie Mirrormask.

The movie churns on.

The loungers are drawn deeper and deeper into the progressively weirder story and visuals.

It's been over an hour now, and the strangeness has clobbered the audience into a sort of numb bemusement.

One begins to nod off.

And then a shout! "THAT'S ANDY HAMILTON!"



On a tangent, have you ever noticed that it is very hard to explain who Stephen Fry is to someone who doesn't know already? I imagine this is a predominantly North American phenomenon. It might be helped if they would just put his name under 'mellifluous' in the dictionary.

Comments

[truetitipudlian.livejournal.com]

I've always found that people know who he is should I mention I.Q, which is my least favorite of his movies and therefore everyone would know that one.

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

I ... have never even heard of IQ.

[azvolrien.livejournal.com]

Neither have I. It's probably not as good as QI.

[truetitipudlian.livejournal.com]

Never heard of the only romantic comedy which has Albert Einstein as a main character? That alone is worth the price of admission, plus the fact that he is charmingly played by Walter Matthau. Fry plays the love interest of Meg Ryan's character before Tim Robbins comes along. It is charming about the first three times you see it, however, it tries a little too hard to be like the romantic comedies of the 30s and 40s, and sadly, despite all it's trying, it doesn't quite get the charming eccentricism of say "Ball of Fire."

[azvolrien.livejournal.com]

It does sound interesting, but no, I've never heard of it.