Week One: Easy A
Directed by Will Gluck
2010
92 minutes
The Study, Teviot. 7:30pm.
Review to appear.
11th Oct2011
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11th Oct2011
Week One: Orgazmo
Dir. Trey Parker,
1997, 94min
Tuesday, The Study, Teviot
Fourteen years before The Book of Mormon, Trey Parker and Matt Stone (creators of South Park) told a decidedly different story about a Mormon out of his element.
Joe Young is in Los Angeles doing his door-to-door mission work, all the while yearning to provide his fiancée Lisa with a romantic wedding in the Temple, which he simply cannot afford. When he knocks at a house being used as a set for a pornographic-superhero movie called Orgazmo, Joe is forced to fend off a gang of guards sent to eject him from the premises. Upon seeing Elder Young defend himself using his martial arts skills, producer Maxxx Orbison offers him the job of becoming the new Orgazmo, as well as a paycheque more than adequate for a Temple wedding.
When Orgazmo becomes the most successful porn film in the world, and Joe Young becomes an inadvertent major player in the dirty movie business, Orbison tightens his grip on the new star, and the naïve young Mormon finds the world of adult entertainment impossible to escape. Now, with the help of his trusty sidekick Choda Boy and a prototype of the sexual super weapon The Orgazmorator, Elder Young must free himself from his contract, and from Orbison’s sinister control, by becoming the only superhero he knows…Orgazmo!
Will Lisa ever get her Temple wedding? Will Choda Boy come to terms with his haunted past? Can Orgazmo defeat the evil Maxxx Orbison? Will sex ever be safe again?!
Written by Mr Phil (MacGillivray)
11th Oct2011
First Film: The King’s Speech
Directed by Tom Hooper
119 minutes
18th September. Sunday. Pleasance Theatre 7:30pm
A simple story of two men in a room talking captivated audiences all over earlier this year and stormed the award season marking wins at the Academy Awards; most notably for Colin Firth (Actor), Tom Hooper (Director) and David Seidler (Screenplay) and the Best Picture itself.
Prince George VI’s (Firth) journey of trying to overcome a stammer so he can be a voice for the monarchy is well underway when we meet him and we can see, that going to speech therapists so far is not going so well for him. As he is about to throw in the towel, his wife, Elizabeth (Helena Bonham Carter) seeks an alternative remedy in Lionel Louge (Geoffrey Rush) and convinces her husband to meet the theatrical Australian. Louge’s informality throws George off in the beginning; he simply wants his stammer to evaporate – not to make friends! But still, the dynamic proves to work as George beings to see results in his approach to speech and an unlikely relationship between the two begins to strengthen.
It is when Edward (Guy Pearce) decides to abdicate to be with his love, George is forced to take charge and become King George VI and in doing so, almost gives him a sort of deadline to contend with, he will no longer be speaking for the entertainment of a nation, he will be speaking for a nation. On his way to finally defeat a stammer in order to give a speech to a nation about going to war, King George realises that the microphone is not something to fear – it is a weapon.
The cast is a perfect ensemble that complements the style the story is told, resulting in an excellently executed and triumphant film. The King’s Speech is a story about how a voice matters.
Written by Raymah Tariq