I've had it with comedies. I mean, I like comedies, always have. Probably I simply got too much depressed by the continuing lack of ideas displayed by writers and the continuing lack of style displayed by directors. When I started to watch "Direktøren for det hele" I surely didn't know what to expect. I mean... Lars von Trier is used to shot a genre that for sure isn't comedy. But oh boy if he's good at it. I don't want comment the technique of shooting (that is brilliant) but simply the content. And that's what makes this movie a great comedy:
1) the character have the right balance between absurdity and reality, starting from the actor failed who speaks only about Gambini; the boss who doesn't want to appear hard so he invented one; the employer who can't speak danish in a good way cause his lessons were cut (by the "boss"); the screaming girl at the copying machine; the punch in the face guy; the "you wouldn't **ck me until I bl** you good" woman; the Finnish buyer who hates danish (spectacular).
2) the story is funny and "sad" at the same time: the boss of a company, wanting to preserve his image of a good man, invent a fake boss to finger him with all his bad actions. But when he decides to sell the company, the buyer wants to speak with the invented boss. Here comes on stage a failed actor who should have played the part of the boss just for a few minutes but that ends up doing it for one week. During this time he'll have to confront all the people that he's supposed to have directed in all of those preceding years, confronting with odd situations knowing little or nothing of each of them and of the company itself.
3) great moments:
a) when the boss of it all agree to a request of an employer without knowing what it is (that would be marrying her);
b) when the mustache guy punches in the face the boss of it all;
c) all the times the Finnish buyer damns the danish;
d) when the boss of it all confess he isn't actually the real boss, because there exist the boss of the boss of it all;
e) when Ravn confesses, and the mustache guy punches him too;
f) when the Finnish mentions Gambini, and suddenly everything "changes" in the plane of the boss/actor.
Why couldn't all the comedies be like this one?
1) the character have the right balance between absurdity and reality, starting from the actor failed who speaks only about Gambini; the boss who doesn't want to appear hard so he invented one; the employer who can't speak danish in a good way cause his lessons were cut (by the "boss"); the screaming girl at the copying machine; the punch in the face guy; the "you wouldn't **ck me until I bl** you good" woman; the Finnish buyer who hates danish (spectacular).
2) the story is funny and "sad" at the same time: the boss of a company, wanting to preserve his image of a good man, invent a fake boss to finger him with all his bad actions. But when he decides to sell the company, the buyer wants to speak with the invented boss. Here comes on stage a failed actor who should have played the part of the boss just for a few minutes but that ends up doing it for one week. During this time he'll have to confront all the people that he's supposed to have directed in all of those preceding years, confronting with odd situations knowing little or nothing of each of them and of the company itself.
3) great moments:
a) when the boss of it all agree to a request of an employer without knowing what it is (that would be marrying her);
b) when the mustache guy punches in the face the boss of it all;
c) all the times the Finnish buyer damns the danish;
d) when the boss of it all confess he isn't actually the real boss, because there exist the boss of the boss of it all;
e) when Ravn confesses, and the mustache guy punches him too;
f) when the Finnish mentions Gambini, and suddenly everything "changes" in the plane of the boss/actor.
Why couldn't all the comedies be like this one?