By Jonathan Klotz
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On October 11, 1974, was a Saturday evening, long considered a death niche for television networks, but that evening, the crazy vision of Lorne Michaels of a series of sketches broadcast live, Oceanque, was going change everything. Saturday Night Live Hit the waves, changing comedy, television and pop culture at the same time, and during the decades, he brought some (the 1986-1993 seasons) and Downs (1994), he remained an American institution. This is why Netflix ended up with another blow, when he became the first house streaming for Saturday nightThe wild film on the chaotic evening just before the broadcast of the first episode, bringing to life to the real stories and the big stories of the players who are not ready during great listening hours.
New York Living
Saturday night is not structured as a typical film and, instead, you throw you directly into the storm of Rockefeller Plaza by bouncing between several characters, sons of the loose plot and extremely disparate situations with Lorne Michaels (played to The perfection by Gabriel Labelle) in the center. The first season of the show was going to make a star of the night from Chevy Chase (played by Cory Michael Smith), which is why he is so strongly presented in the film, alongside Dan Aykroyd (played by The labyrinth runner Dylan O’Brien) and John Belushi (Matt Wood). Director Jason Reitman has a first -hand knowledge of certain actors, his father Ivan managed Aykroyd and the future member of the Bill Murray distribution in GhostsThis helped capture exaggerated personalities who could not help competing.
The behind -the -scenes fighting defined most of the first years of SNL, and Saturday night Includes multiple in his brief runtime of 102 minutes, including the host George CARLIN (Americans Matthew Rhys) and a Censur and Chase and Belushi network went there, which, given the way in which his co-stars were talking about him, if Chevy did not fight with anyone, it would be a surprise. A different type of combat, and perhaps the most interesting of the many stories woven in the film, shows Lorne Michaels defending the very nature of the series to the incredulous NBC Executive in a microcosm of its real struggle to give life to the series . Between Aaron Sorkin style long shots showcase several characters in which leaving conversations and fast shooting cuts between moments of small triumphs, the only thing you cannot call the film is boring.
Behind the scenes of the Big Bang of comedy
Saturday night Rightly includes a cast of mainly emerging stars, with Dylan O’Brien and Finn Wolfhard (Foreign things) as a towing of the most recognizable, but the credit must go to Nicholas Braun (Succession) Playing two roles that could not be more different: Andy Kaufman and Jim Henson.
Most people have forgotten that Henson and the Muppets were part of SNL in the first two seasons, but as the film makes Crystal Clear, it was a difficult partnership on both sides: the sketches hate writing equipment for Muppets, and Henson, trying to get out of the Sesame Street box, which was worried, had trapped his career, wanted to push the envelope with sketches “The Land of Grouch” featuring mupes mixed with adult humor. It is another history that Saturday night Glosses, but could stand alone and, like all the other people involved in the film, deserves more time to explore.
Although the series itself remains popular today, Saturday night failed to find an audience in theaters, starting in only five theaters before developing nationally for the 49th anniversary of the show, barely breaking $ 9 million at the box office. While the criticisms loved it, Jason Reitman shared that Chevy Chase hated that, which is another reason to go watch the film; No one wanted to go to the theater. Everything changed when the film made its debut Netflix In the top 10, and finally, he found an audience.
Saturday Night Live is still going strong
Saturday night Perhaps not a direct comedy like the series he documents, but she presents a fascinating look at a time of television and comedy which helped to raise the stand-up, to define the comedy and, throughout the segments Updating the weekend, allowed the Americans to laugh at news, the satire went to the current like never before. It is impossible today to imagine a world without the idea of genius of Lorne Michaels for the cheap programming on Saturday evening, in particular given the number of stars it launched, from Eddie Murphy to Will Farrell , Billy Crystal and Tina Fey, and someone very familiar to Netflix subscribers, Adam Sandler. Reitman’s film is not a perfect recreation of the night that changed the comedy, but it is the closest that we will have ever been there in the trenches as the New York comics show. Prime Time, the world was not ready for them.
Saturday night is now available on Netflix, and if you want to know more about SNL’s story, Live from New York: the complete and not censored story of Saturday Night Live as his stars, writers and guests saidReleased in 2015 is an incredible oral story told by writers, casting, crew and producers who lived it.
