June 20, 2005
Ricky Gervais Extras clips
Waiting for the new Ricky Gervais project Extras? Well unfortunately it's just TV, but it's going to have a host of film stars in it as we've seen before.
Thanks to logboy over at Twitch, I've just been looking through the website for the show. Take a look for some cool clips for the show and a nice trailer, as well as photos and some cast and crew listings.
The humour isn't as strong as we've seen before, but the magic is still there. I'd love to see Gervais take his style to the big screen, and more than just a voice in an animation show. I'd like to see a Gervais movie vehicle, I wonder if Extras is a step towards this? Are you of the same mind? Want to see him write and appear in a movie? Think he can do it, or is his humour suited only to the small screen?
Posted by at June 20, 2005 03:03 PM
Comments
Posted by: Chris Johnys at July 14, 2005 08:10 PM
Yes, I think that as well.
Posted by: David Jessop at July 28, 2005 10:59 AM
From what I've seen of Extras it looks like another excellent vehicle to express the role-playing, conversational, improvisational comic style of Ricky Gervais. I think that it would be wrong to try to push a fragile talent like Gervais's onto the big screen. His style works best when he has pretty much total control over the production with the ability to improvise and rewrite on the spot where required.
I am not saying that TV comedians never succeed on the big screen - just that I am unsure how Gervais would fare when placed into the role of being just an actor in a larger production. I sincerely hope that when he does take that step he will be directing himself in a production which he has at least had a hand in scripting.
Let us hope that Ricky never falls into the trap of making mediocre films like some of the ones we have seen from Steve Coogan, another talent who can appear totally sublime at times on the TV screen - in "I'm Alan Partridge - Series 2", for example, where the pathos of the character's situation creates natural humour at every turn. Contrast this with his lacklustre performances in "Sweet Revenge" or "Around The World In 80 Days" and weep.
Chris Johnys.