The Man Who Sued God [DVD]

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According to Joffe, the sinking of the Titanic being treated as an act of God, mentioned by Connolly’s character in his questioning of John Howard’s insurance company man, was true. Advocate Steve Myers ( Billy Connolly) is a disillusioned lawyer who becomes fed-up with the perceived corruption within the judicial system. He quits law, buys a small fishing boat and takes up fishing for a living. Neither Watson nor Bridie contribute much, and Joffe tries to keep them in the listener’s mind by praising either the writing or the music, but this gets tedious after a time. It might have been better for Joffe to do the commentary alone, as he drives most of the discussions and provides most of the observations, and prompts the other two to chip in every so often. At some point SBS took over the old FilmInk archives. The date of the SBS posting here, WM here (14th May 2009) for a FilmInk interview with Mark Joffe isn’t the date of the interview, which was clearly done at the time of the film’s domestic release

in, the bed gag was done by props people positioned below slamming the bed up towards Billy Connolly, the special effects people not being able to rig it to get the joke to work. Again, because of Davis’s tendency to deliver early in her takes, Joffe recalls that her talk of her memories was done in close up, and take one was the one that made it into the cut. Joffe was all the more impressed because of the difficulty of doing an expository story-telling piece, which began with the line “when I was about ten …” Billy Connollyas lawyer turned fisherman Steve Myers: Connolly naturally has a detailed wiki, here. That’s followed by a long cue where the ex-wife and Connolly’s character have a night time “discussion”. Bridie says originally they used a boy soprano from St Pat’s, but in the end decided a mezzo soprano’s voice worked better for the film. When Colin Friels appears in the opening phone conversation with Connolly, playing his brother, Joffe says people often note that Friels’ accent is good, but Joffe points out that Friels was actually born just outside Glasgow, and so could claim the status of a Scot. Director Joffe says he asked Bridie to write the aria specifically for the film, but many mistook it for something they’d lifted from a classical composer.This attracts the attention of news writer Anna Redmond ( Judy Davis) who attempts to guide Steve through the legal minefield as well as the Media Circus. During the trial the two begin a relationship.

Ultimately the film was financed with the support of Buena Vista International (Australia), the Australian Film Finance Corporation, the Premium Movie Partnership and the New South Wales Film and Television Office. Icon Entertainment is handling international sales. Yamato, Jen (29 May 2014). "Larry Charles To Pen, Possibly Direct Comedy Remake 'The Man Who Sued God' ". Deadline . Retrieved 25 July 2022. The concept of satirical, clever comedy about a man who chooses to sue God was too appealing to ignore. For the 28’05” headland scene between Davis and Connolly, Bridie says they called the cue “Aphex Twin” because the rhythm layers underneath it sounded a bit like the Sheffield band. He used a piano, accordion, valve mikes and layers of programming underneath to get an organic feel, a technique he used for quite a few of the film’s cues.as became the practice at the time, the stars and shooting star were added later by CGI. The dog looked up to the heavens because he knew that Connolly had a treat for him. I loved the title of the film and the basic premise, but I did feel there were bits about the script that were too cutesy pie for me - a bit too nice guy and comfy. I had a meeting with Mark in Lose Angeles, who was delighted that I was interested, and brought Judy with him. I don’t think she said anything to me at all, but I was deeply impressed because I’ve loved her work for a long time and she was such a star,” he explains. Tim Robertson as the Judge: Tim Robertson has only a short filmographic wiki listing here, but he played a role in the Pram Factory ( WM here) and was also a lecturer in drama at Flinders University. Mark wanted the film to have a very naturalistic feeling and I agreed with him, but it also needed to be tweaked just slightly, to have a sight sense of affected realism … for example, our hero’s boat had a fair bit of scenic art work done on it,” Pittorino explains. minutes in, with Davis and Connolly walking together down a tree-lined street and eating on the run, Joffe says it was shot in Kings Cross. They did a couple of takes, there was a huge storm, and then kept working after it went away.