We saw it today July 12th in Herzliya, Israel at the local movie theater at the mall. A young man under the influence of hallucinogens is nude on a rooftop and threatens to commit suicide by jumping off. There had been some comments about cruel humor, which I just didn't see. And what about the eulogy? Death at a Funeral Also Known As: Muerte en un funeral is a Comedy film directed by Frank Oz and written by Dean Craig. It's a delightful combination of highbrow meeting lowbrow and everything in between.
I found this to be the funniest movie that I've seen in ages. Since I hadn't seen Oz' version, however, I can't compare them yet. It wasn't just me -- the theater was full of people screaming with laughter and clapping at various moments. Add an ovulating wife, a jealous ex-boyfriend, and a short stranger who wants a word with Aaron - what could he want? Many of the people I just mentioned provided many good laughs, especially Marsden as a drugged wanderer, though there were also some-pardon the pun-dead spots as well. With a few simple steps you can be watching Death at a Funeral and thousands of other titles! But preserving the dignity inherent in such circumstances will be a hard task. And what about the eulogy? An animated white outline coffin slides across a black screen and drops into a hole, the hole fills itself in and grass sprouts quickly over a grave.
The moments of comic tension were good, without that excruciating sense that someone was going to be horribly embarrassed, or hurt, or whatever, that American films seem to have. I'm not at all familiar with the latter actor and I think he did a stellar job in the role -- gorgeously self-centered and overall appalling. Leave it to the British, they have a different sense of humor than we do. While most of the guests are watching Simon on the roof, Peter meets privately with Daniel and Robert and reveals he was their father's lover. An American man named Peter , who has , introduces himself to Daniel, who is too busy to speak to him at that moment and suggests they talk later.
It's the day of his father's funeral and Daniel wants everything to go according to plan but his brother is only interested in chatting up a pretty girl at the service; his cousin's straight-laced boyfriend is convinced that someone is alive in the coffin, and a rogue bottle of hallucinogenic pills keeps popping up. It's a hallucinogenic concocted by Troy, who is a pharmacy student. She plays the very composed widow here. Moreover, a lot of the material, especially the closeted-gay jokes, seems dated. A family gathers for the patriarch's funeral: his wife Asher , his son Daniel MacFadyen and his wife Jane Keely Hawes, MacFadyen's real-life wife , and his son Robert Rupert Graves.
This is as good as it gets. When I was an altar boy, assisting at Requiem High Mass and planning how to spend my 50-cent tip at the day-old pastry shop, funerals were sad affairs, with weeping and collapses and all that Latin. One I recognized was Jane Asher she was Paul McCartney's girlfriend in the 60s -- he shoulda married her -- she's still alive and she's not a gold-digger. But preserving the dignity inherent in such circumstances will be a hard task. Not racist but it does take advantage of some significant cultural differences.
One of them involves Daniel's eulogy, which we see him rehearsing from 3-by-5 cards, which are a useful precaution if you forget your dad's name priests always have a helpful memo tucked away in their breviary. Not as strangely as he would act later on, but strangely. Troy and family friend Howard believe Peter to be dead. There are worse ways to escape the August heat. I think the ideal way to see it would be to gather your most dour and disapproving relatives and treat them to a night at the cinema. . All I can say is that I loved it, I just wanted it to go on and on.
So on that note, that's a recommendation for Death at a Funeral. What better setting than a funeral to highlight the humor and irony of life? The brothers panic, bind and gag Peter, and give him what they believe is Valium to calm him down. If that isn't enough, a mysterious visitor from his father's past threatens to expose the patriarch's secret unless he is paid a princely sum. I forget which version this is, but get both! Would another death solve Aaron's problems? I love almost all of these actors -- some more on the basis of personality than skill. Two brothers have several arguments about money, jealousy, and writing. Still, this was quite an entertaining comedy to me that didn't become too unbelievable in the way things happened. I would recommend this movie to anyone and I have seen it a bunch of times.
And what about the eulogy? A young man smokes cigarettes in a few scenes. I have never laughed out load as much as during this movie, and I still laugh at many, many scenes even after watching it more than a dozen times, and I'll watch it again and again even after watching it as many times as I have, because it is so damn funny. If they don't send us off gently into that good night, neither do they rage, rage against the dying of the light copyright , who raged plenty. Would another death solve Aaron's problems? Particularly with an undertaker who. The situation is very well known to everyone who's been to a family funeral, although in America we would have the service in a funeral home or church, and we've all had moments when we want to laugh at the wrong time, or notice something a little out of the ordinary in the service that seems to cry out for comment. The films story unfolds in the span of an afternoon and despite the short duration of plot Frank Oz, directory, endears us to the characters with witty and realistic dialog. Most of the actors are British and I did not recognize them, but they were excellent.