The movie was unappreciated when it came out but "the Man who has a Cough and it is just a Cough and he is fine" is a rollercoaster of emotions nowadays...
This now makes a situation I had with a girl make sense! I had a rash down there and when she saw it, she exclaimed it’s like Christmas time, you have the gift that keeps on giving! I said, what are you talking about? It’s poison ivy! She called me a Scrooge…
Considering Hitchcock stating repeatedly that one should never let the bomb under the table actually explode, I am pretty sure he would have approved of that scenario. :D
So much gold in this that the delivery if "no it's just that this is London's Burning and you're quite inpressionable" goes quietly unnoticed. Love it.
I’ll provide some love for “The Man Who Has a Cough and it’s Just a Cough and He’s Fine” A beautifully predictable rendition of a scenario that many of us face in our day to day lives of which is unapologetically faithful to it’s script and master title. Kudos to the director! For your films have left my mouth drier than the Sahara! An impressive feat for sure!
By that i mean, do you beleive that your movie cliché that you have created has set a more unrealistic tone to the movies you direct, progressing inadvirtantly away from your original goal?
@@drewbryk Casualty is a TV show about depicting real life accident and injury cases, like a toddler getting scalded with boiling water. The director's obsession with depicting real events that go against narrative convention led him to eschew depicting the conventional and realistic thing (the toddler getting scalded) in favour of something that went against the convention but depicted something extreme and unusual (the toddler being saved by the mother and then an alien abduction happens).
The tension as the little girl walked towards the cooker, the realism the gritty realism, this is one of the most underrated scenes since the last underrated scene.
True story this; I was diagnosed with trigeminal neuralgia by a doctor and prescribed powerful anti-epileptic drugs to combat its symptoms, which I took for about a week. The medicine I was taking had known side effects of depression, increasing the tendency for suicidal thoughts and various other neurological side effects. Trigeminal neuralgia, for those of you who don’t know, is known as the suicide disease because it is supposed to be the most painful disease ever discovered. It is known to present itself with symptoms akin to a dental infection and develop from there into an escalating series of painful attacks that can literally blind the victim with pain. As there is no known long term way of arresting its development, people often kill themselves simply to put themselves out of their misery. It turned out after a week that it was a dental infection after all and I was alright. I want this man to make the biopic of my life!
@@peterfireflylund nope, anaesthetic injections to numb the nerve are one option among many but they're not permanent solutions and as with all treatments for TN efficacy varies from person to person. don't think doctors would rec killing the nerve in this day and age, since losing all sensation in half your face would prob result in other sorts of irreversible hellish trouble
Imagine being the producer of a sketch show. "For this sketch, we just need a small studio with two people talking... "Oh, yeah, and cutaway gags to a controlled house fire, an Edwardian railway platform..."
you shall say, nothing happens, although, all the things happen, to be albeit the things that½ happen, so they happen by the happening, happening, all the happenings, of the happennings. I shall be happenining, too true.
Every time someone has a shit in pulp fiction something disastrous and central to the plot happens. Someone told me that and I couldn’t watch it the same again.
_The Man Who Has a Cough, and it's Just a Cough, and He's Fine,_ has a clear story narrative, a beginning-middle-and end, suspension, resolution, and a twist ending. All in about 80 seconds.
The show 24 was notorious for those omissions of reality. I mean. If only once I saw Jack Bauer doing a mundane daily hygienal task, I would be able to believe they forgot about literally nuking a Los Angeles suburb.
I think just because the sketches are hit and miss, you are only seeing the good ones here but there were some lame ones as well. They actually had a sketch on the show about which sketches were going to be hits and which were going to be misses, as if it were being done intentionally.
A little too slapstick, which then seemed uninspired compared to the frantic and disconnected and most certainly overplayed by now comedy style that's seem to still dominate today. Combined with the old bbc equipment and infrastructure lagging behind prevailing American productions that were then just entering the media market worldwide this played against the newness of US media and internet! The raving over pixls and hd compatibility really threw the established industry into question as all of their expensive equipment and bloated hierarchy became meaningless these shows seemed to operated the same nonetheless. I agree though, this show is suburb much like most 2000's British productions. They have that oldtimey feel and inspire an odd nostalgia because I technically never experienced these vibes personally. Its a relaxed mediocrity, a comfortable malaise, a perfect representation of a simpler time.
Scene from "The Gathering of People" is actually a brilliant piece of visual story telling. It's a very effective and efficient way of depicting allies actions during the period of weird war. The half sneezing representing impotent, commitless military action on french-german border, the stalling of the meeting while waiting for a missing man representing a fruitless diplomatic policy towards hitlers demends. The best part is the crude metaphor with the man leaving to, literally, take a piss. Finally, the scene ends with a brilliant stoped sneeze by lead council man and a grimace of pain, being a prevue of the suffering that their lack of decisive response will bring europe in coming years.
They played a short clip from "The Man Who Has A Cough And It's Just A Cough And He's Fine"? I wonder what other memorable scenes we've missed from that film. Dramatic scenes with his employers at work? - My God man, you should get that cough checked out by a physician. - Thank you for your concern, sir, but it's just a cough. (stoically concerning himself with paperwork) And then another scene with his parents. His mom bringing him hot tea: - Oh dear, I've put some honey into this camomile tea. I hope it will ease your cough. - Thank you, mom. It's ... (eyes looking into the distance) ... it's just a cough. It will go away.
I bet there was that classic scene, standing at a bus stop near a crowd of people, getting dirty looks as he tries to cough into his handkerchief silently "dramatically sad music plays"
"stop speculating, man!" - "Oh I'm sorry, Its just a cough" - *Haunting music plays* - "Do you know of any flowery hats, that isn't endorned on a prick?"
"There's not enough life jackets. One of us will have to sacrifice himself to save the others" **cough** "Are you coughing because you are volunteering? Or because your terminal illness means you have nothing to live for?" "No. Neither, it's just a cough. I'm fine"
I heard that the sequel of "The Man Who Has A Cough And It's Just A Cough And He's Fine" is in production! This time, it's a publicly funded movie and it no longer takes place in Victorian times but in UK 2020. The sequel to "Sometimes Fires Go Out" is said to have been picked up by an Australian production firm. The filming starts in 2021.
That joke doesn't really work because it's supposed to be a parody of realism in films. The cough is just a cough and the fire goes out. Covid isn't just a cough and the bushfires were the worst in decades.
@@tonyt1399 Tuberculosis is an infection, isn't it? Why would anyone become physically intimate with someone who could pass on such a deadly infection to them?? :O
I love that there's someone else here who noticed that! Greetings from Storrington...seven years in the future where a cough isn't just a cough but a cause for full-on quarantine.
When I was at school and we had to write stories I thought about doing this. A lot of the dialogue was going to be people saying "what" and the other person having to repeat what they had just said.
Buzz Aldrin said they peed in their suits. And that was 1969, which was around the time of long long ago. I'd wager any organisation capable of building a Death Star can make a spacesuit with a bag in it.
I would love films to have more unnecessary details in them, our world is full of unnecessary detail. People do cough, people do need to pee at times, things do fall off tables, the problem is that when you add something to a film that doesn't 100% fit in to the plot then it gets 100 separate threads on the IMDB. I recently watched Byzantium and a minor character is pregnant and it's irrelevant to the film, but the demand for answers by people who can't simply compute that someone might just happen to be pregnant for nothing to do with the story is crazy.
Rob Fraser A Hollywood film clocks in at upwards of maybe $3,000 per second of screen time, so in general things that are irrelevant or imperfect don't get in.
+chrisofnottingham The problem is an moment of screen time with no relevance could be replaced by a moment of relevance to improve the pacing to no end. Whats the point in giving a side character unnecessary information when you can give the audience necessary information about the side character to develop their personality further and make them more interesting and relevant to the plot.
+Ryan-Beats In Inglorious Basterds, the camera moves across Brad Pitts neck revealing a scar as he lectured his soldiers - this was not mentioned again in the film. It shows, however that providing minor details may not always be mutually exclusive with the passage of the plot. They can actually be weaved into the story to add volume and character.
Jotham Teo But it is "relevant" It is "relevant" information that the character has been scarred in battle especially in a scene where he is lecturing soldiers. If you had someone go to the toilet for no other reason than to have someone go to the toilet and not have it be "relevant" to the story or character in any way then it may as well be replaced with a useful scene.
+Rob Fraser If you want great movies that are filled with unnecessary but realistic detail Robert Altman's movies always deal with overlapping audio. Go to his movie MASH its full of just normal conversations that require you to focus as there is overlapping sound.
"The man who has a cough and it is just cough and he's fine." That is me right now. I am someone who literally sneezes and coughs all the time as it is and before lockdown started if I coughed once the whole room looked at me if I'm ill. This short film is about me :P
I'm a mathematician; I would react in the same way as your brother. True story: I shared a hotel room with a couple of friends years ago, and it had a dodgy wall socket. My lab technician friend woke in the night to find the socket on fire. He grabbed a fire extinguisher, put out the flames and went back to sleep. Later, my physicist friend was woken by the same thing. He saw the extinguisher, reasoned that fire requires oxygen to burn, woke the lab technician and explained at length how a CO2 extinguisher would quench the flames. The lab technician put out the fire and they both went back to sleep. Similarly, I was later woken by fire. I saw the fire, looked at the extinguisher and of course went back to sleep, having established that a solution existed.
Reminds me of when I watching a youtube video, was very engrossed in it and my girlfriend walked in and screamed "fire!". The wastebasket beside me was indeed on fire. My reaction was odd, I didn't react to the fire at all but said rather crossly "Well, I didn't do it!" I did then put it out, but I still giggle thinking of my reaction and how oblivious I had been to the fire.
Pardon me if it seems like this is a crass question, but from your personal experience, what is the horniest bra size on a woman? "WHAT?" By which I mean, what if anything is the message of your films? I'm glad he clarified that..
Not sure it was pointless. The lack of "action" is sort of the whole point - I didn't get into it the first time I watched it, then I came back and really enjoyed it.
PRO TIP: If you feel you are about to sneeze, but don't, and then your are left with the painfully annoying feeling you might still sneeze, just blow your nose anyway. It will clear that pre-sneeze feeling right up.
Quite. I think for film, those sort of "background" actions can really add to the illusion of realism but for a book, the extra chore of having to read the unnecessary details would just annoy the reader. I would have overdone it. My poor primary school teacher.
Since I was a young kid I always imagined that sneezing thing happening to important figures of history at significant points. Like a bunch of Zulus about to fight the english and shit. Something about it is just really funny
I liked this video after 1:08 when I first saw David Mitchell. I had no sound on at the time and didn't know what was going on, but then David Mitchell pops on looking like THAT. Best. Video. Ever Bwaaaaaahahahahahaha
It's an interesting idea, I could just see some people going over board with it though. The right amount of it can work but too much of it just ends up making it dull. Heath Ledger's Joker interpretation had quite a few mannerisms that mimicked life, like when he clears his throat. I guess that's the difference between a well rehearsed scene and a good actor who won't let a little tiny detail ruin a whole scene.
Reminds me of a quote from *The Last Puritan* "Thunderation!" said my father, "There's a man in his shirtsleeves on that step!" We moved the same week.
I fell asleep during it too, but then I did watch it on a long haul flight from L.A. to London, it was the third movie I had watched on the plane and I had been awake for around 30 hours before hand so I don't think I can really make a valid complaint.
Say what you will about "Casualty", but that was the most realistic alien invasion ever filmed... Only thing you could say is missing would be a ginger girl being scalded, which as we all know is the most common trope in any serious alien movie. 3 and a half stars
The 'no one goes for a piss' observation about Star Wars cannot be applied to 2001 a Space Odyssey. 2001 even has a scene where Floyd is reading instructions on how to use a toilet in zero gravity. Such an intense moment in the movie. Lucas has cited 2001 as a major influence on Star Wars, but, was it really? Not even a single warning not to flush the toilet on the death star while it is destroying a planet.
