{"id":303,"date":"2007-07-01T22:17:46","date_gmt":"2007-07-02T02:17:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/303"},"modified":"2011-10-01T17:59:58","modified_gmt":"2011-10-01T21:59:58","slug":"how-to-get-ahead-in-advertising-1989-bruce-robinson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/303","title":{"rendered":"How To Get Ahead In Advertising (1989, Bruce Robinson)"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Masturbating much?”
\n“Constantly! I have a talking boil on my neck.”<\/p>\n

I think I was supposed to watch Withnail & I<\/a><\/em> first, since it’s the one that got all the bonus features on the Criterion disc, but I felt like starting with this one. Somebody I know has warned me about these two movies once… can’t remember who, but anyway I liked this just fine, and will check out Withnail<\/em> sometime.<\/p>\n

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A usually-funny comedy about the advertising business. Dude is high-power ad exec until one troubling assignment to come up with a slogan for a zit cream. He has such trouble that he starts to question the entire practice of advertising… and that’s when a talking boil shows up on his neck, representing his bad ad-man self. It eventually takes over the body (with added mustache) with a good-guy-within boil on HIS neck. A little more gross than the usual angel\/devil on your shoulder, but same idea. More anarchist (or communist) speeches (by the good anti-ad-man persona) than in most films. Remember the bizarre animated lovebirds, too.<\/p>\n

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Writer\/director Bruce Robinson (also wrote The Killing Fields<\/em>) put together a good comedy, with an excellent lead performance by Richard Grant (Karaoke<\/em>, some latter Altmans, and Franz Kafka’s It’s a Wonderful Life<\/a><\/em>).<\/p>\n

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Movie feels not like an advertisement but like a political attack, like a speech, but without the actual speeches interrupting the comic flow of things. Energetic and fun(ny), worth watching for sure.<\/p>\n

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“Masturbating much?” “Constantly! I have a talking boil on my neck.” I think I was supposed to watch Withnail & I first, since it’s the one that got all the bonus features on the Criterion disc, but I felt like starting with this one. Somebody I know has warned me about these two movies once… […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[357,102,1175,13,1388],"class_list":["post-303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1980s","tag-britain","tag-bruce-robinson","tag-criterion","tag-richard-e-grant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6750,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303\/revisions\/6750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}