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By Jonathan Klotz | Published
On October 11, 1974 it was a Saturday night, considered for a long time as a death slot for television networks, but on this particular night, the crazy vision of a series of comedy of sketches by Lorne Michaels was broadcast Live, from coast to coast, I was going to change everything. Saturday Night Live Reaching waves, changing comedy, television and pop culture at the same time, already over the decades have brought some UPS (the 1986-1993) and Downs (1994) seasons, has remained an American institution. That is why Netflix found another success, when he became the first transmission house to Saturday nightThe wild film about chaotic night just before the first episode was broadcast, giving life to the true stories and stories of the not ready for star schedule players.
Live from New York
Saturday night It is not structured as a typical film and, on the other hand, throws it directly to the storm in Rockefeller Plaza bouncing among several characters, loose plot threads and tremendously disparate situations with Lorne Michaels (perfectly played by Gabriel Laborle) in the center. The first season of the program would arrive at a star during the night with Chevy Chase (played by Cory Michael Smith), so it appears both in the movie, along with Dan Aykroyd (played by The labyrinth corridor Dylan O’Brien) and John Belushi (Matt Wood). Director Jason Reitman is aware of some of the cast, his father Ivan directed Aykroyd and the future member of the cast Bill Murray in GAPANSthat helped to capture the exaggerated personalities that could not avoid colliding.
The fights behind the stage defined most of the first years of SNL, and Saturday night It presents multiple in its short execution time of 102 minutes, including host George Carlin (The Americans Matthew Rhys) and a censor of the network and Chase and Belushi do it, which, given the way in which their co -star spoke about him, if Chevy did not fight with anyone, it would be a surprise. A different type of fight, and perhaps the most interesting of the many woven stories through the film, shows Lorne Michaels defending the very nature of the program to the executive unbeliever of NBC in a microcosm of her real -life struggle to give life To the series. . Among the long tracking shots in the style of Aaron Sorkin with multiple characters entering and leaving conversations and fast fire cuts between moments of small triumphs, the only thing you can’t call the movie is boring.
Behind the Big Bang de Comedy
Saturday night It includes, properly, an cast of mainly promising stars, with Dylan O’Brien and Finn Wolfhard (Strangest things) as a trailer of the most recognizable, but the credit has to go to Nicholas Braun (Succession) Interpret dual roles that could not be more different: Andy Kaufman and Jim Henson.
Most people have forgotten that Henson and Muppets were part of SNL during the first two seasons, but as the film makes the glass clear, it was an uncomfortable association on both sides: sketch writers hated writing material for the Muppets, and Henson, trying to try. To get out of the Sesame street box that was worried, he had caught his career, wanted to push the envelope with sketches “The Land of Grouch” with Muppets mixed with adult humor. It is another story that Saturday night Glossss, but could be kept on their own and, like everyone else involved in the film, they deserve more time to explore.
Although the series itself remains popular today, Saturday night He could not find a hearing in theaters, starting in just five theaters before expanding throughout the country for the 49th anniversary of the program, just breaking $ 9 million at the box office. While critics loved him, Jason Reitman shared that Chevy Chase hated him, which is another reason to watch the movie; Nobody wanted to walk the theater. All of that changed when the film debuted in Netflix on Top 10, and finally found a audience.
Saturday Night Live is still strong
Saturday night It may not be a direct comedy like the series that documes Update, they allowed Americans to laugh in the news when satire became the main current as never before. Today it is impossible to imagine a world without the genius of Lorne Michaels for the cheap programming on Saturday night, especially given how many stars they released, from Eddie Murphy to Will Farrell, Billy Crystal and Tina Fey, and someone very familiar for Netflix subscribers , Adam Sandler. Reitman’s film is not a perfect recreation of the night that changed the comedy, but it is the closest to be there in the trenches as demonstrated by the New York comics, although they were not ready for time in stellar time, The world was not ready for them.
Saturday night It is now available on Netflix, and if you want to know more about SNL’s story, Live from New York: The complete and uncensored story of Saturday Night Live as told by his stars, writers and guestsReleased in 2015, it is an incredible oral history told by the writers, the cast, the team and the producers who lived it.
