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October 11, 1974, Saturday night, long considered a slot for television networks, but on this particular night, the crazy vision of Lorne Michaels about the sketch of the comedy series broadcast live, coast to the coast, change everything. Saturday night live Hit the waves, changing comedy, television and pop culture at once, and within decades some UPS (1986-1993 season) and Downs (1994) have remained an American institution. Therefore Netflix found himself with another hit when he became the first streaming houses Saturday nightA wild film about a chaotic night just before the first episode broadcasts, reviving real stories and high stories that are not prepared for primetime players.
Live from New York
Saturday night It is not structured as a typical film, and instead plunges you directly into the storm on the Rockefeller Plaza jumping between more characters, free conspiracy fibers, and wildly disparate situations with Lorne Michaels (played to perfection Gabriel Labelle) in the middle. The first season of the show would continue to make them a star overnight Chevy Chase (played Cory Michael Smith), and therefore he was so hard in the film, next to Dan Aykroyd (played MAZE RUNNER’S Dylan O’Brien) and John Belushi (Matt Wood). Director Jason Reitman has first -hand knowledge of some cast, his father Ivan directed Aykroyd and future member of the cast of Bill Murray in GhostbustersWhich helped to capture personalities who could not help but the clash.
Backstage struggles defined most of the early years of SNL and Saturday night It contains a multiple in its short 102 -minute run, including a host George Carlin (Americans Matthew Rhys) and network censorship and Chase and Belushi, which, given how his stars spoke about him if Chevy didn’t get into the fight with someone, it would be a surprise. Another type of struggle and perhaps the most interesting of the many stories that intertwine in the film shows Lorne Michaels, who advocates the very nature of the show the incredible NBC manager in the microcosm of his real struggle for life to live. Among the long -term shots in the Aaron Sorkin style with long watching with more characters entering and leaving conversations and fast missiles between the moments of small triumphs, one thing you can’t call the movie is boring.
Behind the scenes of the Big Bang of Comedy
Saturday night Includes, appropriately, the cast of mostly upcoming stars, with Dylan O’Brien and Finn Wolfhard (Strange things) as a towing of more recognizable, but the credit must go to Nicholas Braun (Sequence) Play dual roles that could not vary: Andy Kaufman and Jim Henson.
Most people forgot that Henson and Muppets were part of the SNL in the first two seasons, but because the film is Crystal clear, it was a turbulent partnership on both sides: the writers of the sketch hated writing material for Muppets and Henson, trying, trying to break free From the box Sesame Street, which was afraid of imprisoning his career, he wanted to push the envelope of the “The Land of Grouch” representing Muppets mixed with humor for adults. It’s another story Saturday night Glossies Over, but could stand alone and, like everyone else involved in the film, deserves more time to explore.
Although the series itself remains popular today Saturday night We could not find the audience in theaters, starting only in five theaters before expanding to the national level on the 49 -year anniversary of the show and barely broke $ 9 million in the cash register. While critics loved it, Jason Reitman shared that Chevy Chase hated it, which is another reason to look at the movie; No one wanted to go to the theater. It all changed when the film debuted Netflix In the TOP 10 and finally found the audience.
Saturday night lives still strong
Saturday night It does not have to be a straight comedy, such as the series it document, but represents a fascinating view of the era of television and comedy that has helped to increase the stand-up, defined comedy Sketches in the news, when Satire went mainstream like never before. Today it is impossible to imagine a world without the brilliant idea of Lorne Michaels for cheap programming Saturday evening, especially given how many stars he launched, from Eddie Murphy to Will Farrell, Billy Crystal and Tina Fey and someone well known to Netflix subscribers, Adam Sandler. Reitman’s film is not a perfect recreation of the night to one that has changed the comedy, but it’s the closest thing we’ll ever get to the bottom down in the trenches of Prime Time, the world wasn’t ready for them.
Saturday night is now available on Netflix and if you want to learn more about the history of SNL, Live from New York: Complete, uncensored history Saturday nights live as her stars, writers and guests saidPublished in 2015, an incredible oral history narrated to the writer, cast, crew and producers who experienced it.
