Roger Graef — 导演 (3)
蒙地蟒蛇脫線音樂劇 (2014) [电影] 豆瓣
Monty Python:The Meaning of Live
导演: James Rogan / Roger Graef 演员: 约翰·克里斯 / 特瑞·吉列姆
其它标题: Monty Python:The Meaning of Live
被譽為「喜劇界披頭四」的「蒙地蟒蛇」(Monty Python)相隔34年後再度登台,推出成團45週年的告別演出,渾身喜感的祖父級天王,以誇張的肢體動作以及讓人捧腹大笑的演出,征服全場的觀眾。同時,影片應穿插團員的訪問以及過往演出的片段,讓這部紀錄片溢滿歡笑與回憶....。
2014,「蒙地蟒蛇」劇團正籌備告別演出,成團45年的他們距離上次同台已經是34年前了,其中一位團員格雷查普曼更於1989年因病過世,六人同台的光景也只能在紀錄片的片段追憶,也讓這場告別秀更增添幾分感傷。這場英國倫敦O2體育館現場的馬拉松演出座無虛席,不僅重現1973以及1980年兩場演出的橋段,更找來了《王牌大賤諜》麥克邁爾斯等人登台客串,而物理學家史蒂芬霍金與團員獻聲演唱〈銀河之歌〉噱頭十足。
然而,這部紀錄片除了捕捉在O2體育館的精彩實況,更重要的是讓這些喜劇泰斗們侃侃而談一路走來的點滴,以及許多不為人知的秘辛,還有穿插這場告別演出的彩排實況,而泰瑞吉蘭更直白的說明他們為什麼會再聚首的原因,儘管聽來相當諷刺,如此以來卻讓全球劇迷值回票價。
這部紀錄片讓新世代影迷一睹英倫天團的脫線魅力,也讓老影迷再度重溫他們絕無僅有的瘋狂喜劇,然而這也是獻給《蒙地蟒蛇》團員們一封難忘的情書,滿載著舞台上的掌聲以及觀眾的喝采。
女王台前搞笑会 (1976) [电影] 豆瓣 IMDb TMDB
Pleasure at Her Majesty's
其它标题: Pleasure at Her Majesty's / Monty Python Meets Beyond the Fringe
Pleasure At Her Majesty's was the name given to the filmed release of A Poke In The Eye (With A Sharp Stick), the first of the Amnesty International comedy benefit galas. The title is a play on the phrase At Her Majesty's Pleasure (the show was performed at Her Majesty's Theatre, London). In America, the film was originally called Monty Python Meets Beyond the Fringe.
This show came to be considered part of the Secret Policeman's Ball series of shows that it inspired, although it pre-dated the first show in the series by three years.
The event was organized by a team of three: Monty Python member John Cleese, Amnesty's Assistant Director Peter Luff and Transatlantic Records executive Martin Lewis. It featured the cream of Britain's comedic talent of the era, setting a precedent that would inspire many subsequent Amnesty galas, as well as Comic Relief. The concept was also the inspiration of similar events, also in aid of Amnesty International in countries around the world as far away as Australia, in the case of the Stand Up For Your Rights Comedy Galas.
The film consists of both on-stage and back-stage footage, taken from all three nights of the run (1–3 April 1976).
Luff and Lewis collaborated on producing the successor show - video-taped in 1977 as The Mermaid Frolics. Then Cleese and Lewis teamed up (with Amnesty's new fundraising director Peter Walker) in 1979 to create The Secret Policeman's Ball - the first show to carry what became the iconic Secret Policeman's Ball title.
(from wikipedia)