Saturday Night 2024 Torrent WEB-DL.Ac3
10/27
Matt Wood plays John Belushi on Saturday Night Live
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On October 11, 1975, at 11:30 p.m., a wild group of young comedians and writers changed television forever. Find out what happened behind the scenes in the 90 minutes leading up to the premiere of Saturday Night Live (1975). See the rest of the cast and their real-life counterparts. Dan Aykroyd was the only member of the original SNL cast to read the script.
He actually came right away
As the show airs live, John Belushi enters the scene through a door 39 seconds late. Lorne Michaels: Listen, my name is Lorne Michaels, I’m the producer of “Saturday Night.” Gorilla: All night? Lorne Michaels: [sarcastically] Yeah, all night. The film opens with a Lorne Michaels quote: “The show doesn’t go on because it’s over, it goes on because it’s 11:30 p.m.” As seen in Eddie Murphy, The Black King of Hollywood (2023).
Ixoo “Chickenweed” Chawz Written by Don Cento and Martin Garner Starring Don Cento and Martin Garner
“Saturday Night” has some entertaining scenes and moments, and even the first half is pretty compelling as this pulp biopic about the night of the first “Saturday Night Live” (90 minutes to be exact, as the movie shows us on the clock, a mistake I’ll come back to) and how Lorne Michaels gets caught up in all the chaos that awaits him with a show he wasn’t even entirely sure what it was going to be. Smith as Chevy Chase (perhaps the most interesting character considering how he’s portrayed and treated by other characters like Milton Berle) and the guy played by Dan Aykroyd are probably the best and most engaging. Unfortunately, Reitman has the problem that biopic directors sometimes have — and in his case, he probably met one or two of these guys when he was still in diapers — which is the feeling that this topic is SO important, and that what’s in it… What happened in this case would have repercussions throughout the history of modern comedy, pop culture, and television as a medium…
well, first of all, we *get* it, especially after it’s explained the first time (and third, fourth, or
fifth time that I lost count by the last third, especially the whole thing involving Willem Dafoe’s character (he does his best, but that guy is a one-note joke like many others here), and second, if you only have a very casual admiration for Saturday Night Live, it can be even more annoying. I realized this when I was doing this with my partner, who has never seen a full episode of the ’70s series (probably not many of you have, either). I get it, too, because unlike Chase, we don’t get (aside from a moment on Weekend Update) any of Belushi as a mad comic genius, so he comes off as a stale human blob (no shade to actor Matt Wood), and as soon as the skating at Rockefeller Center thing comes up (in October, huh?), Reitman has fallen into sentimentality that’s just garbage and unrelated. If you feel the emotion in the final sections, I can understand, because it’s easy to get caught up in it, since it occurs after Reitman has already reshaped and reshaped so much of the story in this one-night marathon of OMG, so some of this maybe needs relief.
I found that in these moments where Reitman and company look at this story with the words “Wow, that was INNOVATIVE, guys,” the lens distracts from what’s really working here, which is showing the smaller moments and processes; Once again, show us how disturbed and conflicted people could be about BTS and the countless problems that arose from making things for TV in 1975 instead of telling us, and building real character dynamics that are a crapshoot
