The Hippopotamus: Fry Stephen

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The story is coddled by an assertively jovial score and garnished with baroque outbursts of swearing.

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The film may not to be to everyone's taste and some of the scenes are not for people who may be easily offended. By contrast, Michael’s wife, Anne (Fiona Shaw), offers a warm welcome, and confides in Ted that she’s concerned about the mildly transgressive behavior of her younger son, David (Tommy Knight). Having not written a poem since 1987, he is stuck writing reviews of small-time plays, wallowing in his bath and compulsively drinking. Allam is the pick though, at his most Gambonesque and making masterful, robust, use of Fry's veritable volcano of vital, varied and volatile verbiage.Ted Wallace is weary beyond all human capacity for weariness of the mindless pap that is served up under the guise of 21st century "culture", and can hardly be blamed for seeking refuge in a bottle of whisky, or rather a great many bottles of whisky. Since I enjoyed so much reading The Gun Seller by Hugh Laurie, and due Stephen Fry is a very good friend of Laurie, and it seemed that Fry's style in novels can be quite similar to Laurie's, I thought that it could be a good idea to try some book by Stephen Fry. It starts off as a comedy with some Malcolm Tucker ( The thick of it ) like scenes played brilliantly by Roger Allam it then turns into a stately home farce and ends up being like a detective mystery story. Intellectual Entertainment film has become a rare commodity, tight well written scripts, impeccable line direction and cast delivered lines accompanied by spot-on timing have become a thing of the past.

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The weakness is in the supporting characters - not the performances, but their drama and the necessity of their presence. Against the rich, voluminous linguistic calisthenics of the central character (subtitles in other languages would be a challenge), the rest of the story tends to blur. Ted reports back to Jane regularly, in the form of long, rambling letters, apprising her of events at Swafford Hall whilst also offering his views on numerous other issues (women, art, poetry, sex, morality and modern life being favourite topics), all the time attempting to uncover the nature of the unusual events that Jane has instructed him to look out for. The screenplay crystallizes this idea effectively, even amid the comic busyness — pratfalls, fellatio interruptus and equine molestation among the doings. Ted, an old fart of a man, is a washed-up cynical poet and a drunk who surprisingly has a superior attitude.

The novel follows Adrian wisecracking and scheming his way first through public school (where he develops an obsessive crush on a class-mate) and then through Cambridge, where, among other things, he forges a Dickens manuscript, strikes up a friendship with a very colourful professor (the brilliant Donald Trefusis) and gets involved in an espionage story of sorts. The plot tests the audiences' patience and good humor with its series of jokes about emissions deliberately designed to upset sensitive aunties. You have the right to ask for a copy of the information we hold on you, and the right to ask us to correct any inaccuracies in that information. I highly recommend this movie, but do yourself a favor and read the book, or better yet, listen to the Audiobook narrated by Stephan Fry himself - pure enjoyment. My parents checked the parent notes before watching and I have to say, they really didn't prepare us for the endeavour to come.

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It follows Adrian Healey through his escapades at school, where he weaves intricate stories, gets himself into trouble and makes friends with Professor Trefusis. It’s a slight limitation that neither Wallace nor the audience really knows what he’s investigating – we’re mostly watching Allam scowling at the eccentrics passing through his eyeline – but it’s still a pleasure, and often a joy, to watch the star measuring out and savouring Fry’s rich wordplay like fingers of scotch. This may be true in one or two cases; however, Stephen Fry more than deserves to be taken seriously. Two computer engineers needed some micro-processors but didn't like what they saw and decided to make their own. There is a bubbling anger below the ironic veneer, an irritable disenchantment with our gullibility, our modern need for Californian style healing techniques and new age beliefs.Over the course of his stay it gradually becomes apparent that other house guests are ascribing healing powers to one of Logan's children, David (Ted's other godchild), and indeed it is in the hope that he might bestow his 'talent' upon them that they have descended upon Swafford Hall. His habitual lying revolves around himself and his experiences; he says what he wants people to know, and how he wants them to think of him. I was worried I might be disappointed by this movie because of the negative reviews, but that worry was ill-founded. Ich ziehe ein nochmaliges Hören in Betracht, was mich nochmal in den Genuss der verrückten Ideen des auf eine äußerst nonchalante Art charmanten Arthur Healey bringen würde.