Aggiungi una trama nella tua linguaThis movie follows the fortunes of an avant garde Morris team in their struggle to evolve Morris Dancing.This movie follows the fortunes of an avant garde Morris team in their struggle to evolve Morris Dancing.This movie follows the fortunes of an avant garde Morris team in their struggle to evolve Morris Dancing.
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- QuizThe name of the main character, Derecq Twist, is named after the legendary Derek Twist, writer of the classic WW2 film Angels One Five. The writer of Morris: A Life with Bells On, Tom Oldham, is better known for his work with WW2 themed video games.
- BlooperThe headquarters of the Orange County Morris Men is shown as being in Santa Monica, California. Santa Monica is in Los Angeles County, not Orange.
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Written by Julian Ronnie & Lee McCutcheon
Performed by Jo Servi, Vic Saville, Julian Ronnie & Lee McCutcheon
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I'm not entirely sure what the reason for this film being made was, but in short, it shouldn't have been made.
There are many reasons I wouldn't recommend this film, the main ones being are that firstly, the plot is tedious and predictable - it seems that no effort has been made to create an interesting narrative or use interesting dramatic devices that keep you drawn throughout the film.
Secondly, the script is not particularly funny, quirky, or imaginative. Although I acknowledge the fact that the film is set in the west country, the actors all have very wooden, stereotypical west country accents - reminiscent of 'The Wurzels' (which of course, is not funny in 2010) Thirdly, in addition to 'having a laugh' over the west country accent, the rest of this film to me simply not funny. I like to think that I have a fairly varied and open sense of humour, but I did not laugh once in this film, let alone a snigger.
The reason for this, I can only hypothesise as follows - This film is evidently trying to be a 'Spinal Tap' of Morris Dancing. Based on the mocumentary style, this film is clearly trying to create humour from the Morris Dancing culture - but instead of cleverly parodying this culture, it seems to have only represented this culture fairly close to the truth (not even in an observational style). Evidently the makers of this film knew quite a lot about the Morris Dancing culture, and are very possibly part of this culture themselves. Here, they obviously didn't want to poke too much fun at Morris Dancing, at the fear of disapproval from that very culture. Here it is obvious that the main target audience of this film is Morris Dancers and those involved in the Folk culture; the makers couldn't risk offending their main target audience now could they.
So as a result, this film would only be understood by those in the culture associated, and even then, there isn't much to laugh about.
Morris Dancers and 'Folkies': If you intend on convincing yourself that this film is funny just because it is about Morris Dancers, please think twice. Non-Morris Dancers or 'Folkies': Don't bother yourself with this film. There are too many references you will not recognise, and even if you did, they aren't funny.
There are many reasons I wouldn't recommend this film, the main ones being are that firstly, the plot is tedious and predictable - it seems that no effort has been made to create an interesting narrative or use interesting dramatic devices that keep you drawn throughout the film.
Secondly, the script is not particularly funny, quirky, or imaginative. Although I acknowledge the fact that the film is set in the west country, the actors all have very wooden, stereotypical west country accents - reminiscent of 'The Wurzels' (which of course, is not funny in 2010) Thirdly, in addition to 'having a laugh' over the west country accent, the rest of this film to me simply not funny. I like to think that I have a fairly varied and open sense of humour, but I did not laugh once in this film, let alone a snigger.
The reason for this, I can only hypothesise as follows - This film is evidently trying to be a 'Spinal Tap' of Morris Dancing. Based on the mocumentary style, this film is clearly trying to create humour from the Morris Dancing culture - but instead of cleverly parodying this culture, it seems to have only represented this culture fairly close to the truth (not even in an observational style). Evidently the makers of this film knew quite a lot about the Morris Dancing culture, and are very possibly part of this culture themselves. Here, they obviously didn't want to poke too much fun at Morris Dancing, at the fear of disapproval from that very culture. Here it is obvious that the main target audience of this film is Morris Dancers and those involved in the Folk culture; the makers couldn't risk offending their main target audience now could they.
So as a result, this film would only be understood by those in the culture associated, and even then, there isn't much to laugh about.
Morris Dancers and 'Folkies': If you intend on convincing yourself that this film is funny just because it is about Morris Dancers, please think twice. Non-Morris Dancers or 'Folkies': Don't bother yourself with this film. There are too many references you will not recognise, and even if you did, they aren't funny.
- otis_Luxton
- 14 nov 2010
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By what name was Morris: A Life with Bells On (2009) officially released in Canada in English?
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