Just listened to the dvd commentary for Walk Hard. Those guys actually thought they made a funny movie.
(Why was I listening? I was doing my qi gong and pilates, and the radio is boring.)
The Hooded Utilitarian
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Just listened to the dvd commentary for Walk Hard. Those guys actually thought they made a funny movie.
It was clear that they had IDEAS about what they were trying to do.
They just forgot that Ron Burgundy actually treated itself like a narrative instead of a spoof.
Wait, you listened to the commentary too?
No, but judging by what you said (and from watching the film), I surmised where the film went rogue.
Huh. I mean, all I said was that they thought the film was funny, with the implication that it wasn’t.
The fellows also thought the film worked as a story. They reported themselves to be quite moved by certain incidents in Dewey Cox’s life. So my guess is they treated the film as a narrative as well as a spoof but that they weren’t much good at either.
The problems with these types of films are that they never know what to set the volume at. A good spoof film, like Airplane, knows exactly what it is, while at the same time holds a high respect for storytelling. It knows how to mix them.
I’m not sure if it would of been any different given a different crew and writer.