Random Musings

I actually can't wait to see how it turns out. Like how the fuck do you play Jimmy Savile without it becoming a caricature. And Coogan is such a funny impressionist to begin with. It's going to beautiful/horrifying.

"Slappers and Broads - the Rodimus story"

It's totally hypocritical, it'll gloss over the honchos who turned a blind eye at the BBC many of whom are still alive and have escaped Scot free, they're as guilty as Savile. I agree some things really don't need to be made, shame ch4 aren't making it, might have had a little more edge to it but then Coogan probably wouldn't have done it then.

An origins story

If it targets the enablers, great. But I can't see that it will. I can't really think of an angle that seems worth pursuing. It's all horrific.

Credits fade to black as a didgeridoo starts playing.

And a Pizza Express bag floats past.

To give him credit, coogan is a decent straight actor. If you want someone to play a character with a dual personality, 'Jimmy Jangles' on TV by day and disgusting sex pest by night, Coogan is a really good shout.

And I think, on balance, its probably an important story to be told. Hundreds of people enabled saville and they need a light shining on them, too.

I think enough water has passed under the bridge and they dramatise worse things. I mean, the number of films and whatnot about american serial killers has almost passed into fetishisation which, yes, I suppose is a problem in and of itself (Yes, I know Ted Bundy was handsome and charming) but I dont think Saville is particularly out there as subject matter.

You're right of course. It's probably because I have a particular type of loathing for these kind of dramatisations and, like you say, fetishing of evil people.

Does seem like an utterly mental idea.

I can see if you're a writer/performer/produced of dramatic works, and you think an issue is important, then you're inclination is going to be to make a dramatic work out of it. For people who have hammers, a lot of things end up looking like nails.

I don't agree with what someone said up thread that a dramatic work will inevitably make a character out to be sympathetic. Though my first reaction to this is "yikes!" I'm not entirely on board with the idea that some topics should never be the subject of dramatization, and I can't quite put my finger on why I can't see this working over a drama about, say, any other reprehensible criminal act (of which there are plenty).

I think this will be a car crash, but maybe I just lack the imagination on how this could work.

Are they actually going to shine a light on those who enabled him though?

I feel as though it's the sort of thing that will just end up as a thinly veiled impersonation showcase with a bit of dark music here and there. He's perfect glorification fodder.

I think this is exactly what it will be. This is going to end up a total cluster fuck.

This is my gut feeling exactly.