Although he has an ironic mustache Justin Theroux to suggest otherwise, mini-series “White House Plumbers” (HBO Maxfrom Tuesday, day 2) This is not a comedy, he assures the director, david mandell. “Well, this isn’t comedy but it’s not drama either” deserves further confusion. We can leave it to the tragedy of a couple of ridiculous men, real E. Howard Hunt (Woody Harrelson) And G Gordon Liddy (Theroux mentioned above), Former CIA and FBI agents, respectively, known for leading the attempted break-in at the Watergate complex that ended Richard M. Nixon’s presidency. Familiar but relative: That’s why failing missions or personality tics are so startling, and hilarious if Mandel will let them.
Our interviewee, like it or not, is a living legend (of various eras) of American comedy: a kind of Zelig or Forrest Gump humor on screen. He rarely gets anywhere first, but he’s been to incredible places, from the writers’ room. ‘Live on Saturday night’ (between 1992 and 1995) “Seinfeld” (for the last three seasons). Alongside the latter’s co-creator, Larry David, he learned “innovative soap opera lessons: the importance of moving the plot forward in every scene, or how to build a climax out of four stories colliding in one place.” David later hired him for being no less innovative. “Larry David”His improvisational spirit led Mandel to head his own season (or rather, three seasons) of political comedy. ‘VIP’.
Four break-in attempts
‘White House Plumbers’ could be considered a prequel to ‘Veep’, due to its occasional approach to the Oval Office and its dangerously under-population. Mandel nuances about it: “They’re very different dramas. In ‘Veep’ we always rely on the joke, the joke, the joke, to pull the good characters, but we always think of the joke, the joke, the joke. Sometimes it’s hilarious but we try not to joke. Humor is organic here. arises from certain events and situations.
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A perfect example is the phenomenon that we believe to have culminated in a prologue, when in reality we remember it when it was pure disappointment. There were not just one, but four attempts to enter Watergate. It is the latter that we saw at the beginning. “Not even some politics buffs know that there has been an attempt to rob the Democratic Party headquarters up to four times.”He points to Mandel. You can’t listen to something like this without laughing. “But we’re also laughing at something that constitutes a terrible crime against the trust of the American public. It’s an inappropriate laugh, something we did at ‘Larry David’. That nervous laugh in the middle. A funeral.”
Harrelson as Willy Loman
According to Mandel, it was “desperation” that drove Hunt and Liddy to make mistakes. “Liddy was a very difficult person to please, and also had the ability to do very dangerous things, watched closely by her colleagues if she killed others. [el columnista de investigación] Jack Anderson. Hunt also craved prestige, but was quieter. We were thinking of Willy Loman from Miller’s Death of a Salesman: the shadow of his former self, a man who almost literally crawls through life, walking slowly like Harrelson does on the show.”
“Cheers”‘s Woody Boyd brings relief and complex humanity to a highly volatile character in other approaches to Watergate, including the classic one. “All the President’s Men”A history of Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward’s investigations that uncovered the scandal. “I like to think our show is happening at the same time as him. It’s the same thing, from another angle. You see Woodward calling Hunt in the movie and Hunt getting Woodward’s call in the show.” Voiced by a nice wink, Robert Redford.
Source: Informacion
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