Rutland Weekend Television takes a look at the Pre-fab Four: Dirk, Barry, Stig and Nasty; better known as the Rutles. This documentary follows their career from their early days in Liverpool and Hamburg's infamous Rat-Keller, to their amazing worldwide success. A parody of Beatlemania and the many serious documentaries made about the Beatles.
知道九成九是不会有人出D,所以只能自己解决,下到了这个THE RUTLES-ALL YOU NEED IS CASH
众多史料都将MOCKUMENTARY(模仿,讽刺式伪记录片)开山之作的称号送给了罗伯莱纳84年的经典之作"THIS IS SPINAL TAP"(腰椎穿刺),但实际上六年之前,MONTY PYTHON成员ERIC IDLE就早已经拍出了一部不折不扣的MOCKUMENTARY--ALL YOU NEED IS CASH.
THE RUTLES这个乐队名最初来自于IDLE 1975年为BBC制作的电视系列节目"RUTLAND WEEKEND TELEVISION"(节目名字同样是对当时走红的节目LONDON WEEKEND TELEVISION的模仿嘲讽)中的一段小品,NEIL INNES作为"THE RUTLES"的成员演唱了一首完全模仿披头士早期风格的歌曲. 两年之后,IDLE受邀赴美参加了王牌节目"SATURDAY NIGHT"的演出,演出中同样包含了几首RUTLES的歌曲,结果大受欢迎,IDLE大受鼓舞并决定制作一部全长的伪记录片"ALL YOU NEED IS CASH".
整部影片的主体是那些照着披头士的编年史来篡改的黑白或是彩色记录片段,几乎没有遗漏任何重大事件,甚至连"保罗已死"之类的传说也被照收不误(套在了伪乔治头上);副线则是IDLE饰演的记者寻访RUTLES当年的轨迹,采访的对象甚至包括了贾格尔和保罗西蒙,而RUTLES对他们音乐的影响显然都是非常非常大的. 片子搞笑的地方实在是数不胜数,看看这些名字就知道了:SGT. RUTTER"S ONLY DARTS CLUB BAND, TRAGICAL HISTORY TOUR, YELLOW SUBMARINE SANDWICH(模仿黄色潜水艇的动画场景水准相当不俗)......就像宣传语所说的"The bigger a Beatles fan you are the more you will enjoy this wonderfully silly and surreal look at the 1960s"
片子另外一个极为出彩的地方就是NEIL INNES(INNES曾是The Bonzos乐队的核心人物,乐队曾参与披头士电影“Magical Mystery Tour”的演出,其唱片的制作人也是保罗麦卡特尼)所谱写的大量伪披头士歌曲,无论早期,中期,后期全都学得个十足,只有那首"GET UP AND GO"算是纯粹抄袭"GET BACK".也正因为此,电影原声带-也等于是RUTLES的专辑相当走红,乐队竟然还在96年重组参加了一系列演出,并发行了名为"THE RUTLES ARCHAEOLOGY"(又嘲讽了一把当时刚发行的披头士ANTHOLOGY)的第二张专辑,市面上甚至还能找到他们的BOOTLEG唱片.最搞笑的是,RUTLES核心NASTY的后继乐队起了个the Plastic Ono Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band的名字!
去年八月份,经过对华纳公司一年多的死缠烂打,ERIC IDLE终于成功推出了电影的续集-RUTLES 2:CAN"T BUY ME LUNCH,电影以那第二张专辑ARCHAEOLOGY为音乐背景,作了一次音乐考古,请到了更多的众多大牌明星,畅谈RUTLES音乐对他们的影响,其中包括了大卫鲍伊,凯莉菲舍尔,珠儿,汤姆汉克斯,史蒂夫马丁,罗宾威廉姆斯,麦当娜,詹尼弗洛佩兹,麦克尼克尔斯等等.期待能早日看到DVD发行.
最后贴一个虚构的THE RUTLES专辑全集名称,实在是笑死人: Other Rutles albums (fictitious) Meet The Rutles
(Parlourphone, 1963 - released in the UK as "Please Rut Me") SONGS INCLUDE: Please Rut Me Rut Me Do Hold My Hand Blue Suede Schubert
With The Rutles (Parlourphone, 1963)
A Hard Day"s Rut (movie soundtrack - Parlourphone, 1964) SONGS INCLUDE: A Hard Day"s Rut I Must Be In Love With A Girl Like You Between Us Can"t Buy Me Lunch
Rutles For Sale (Parlourphone, 1964) SONGS INCLUDE: Living In Hope
Rutle Soul (Parlourphone, 1965 - released in the US as "Rubbery Mole": Capatol, 1966) SONGS INCLUDE: It"s Looking Good
Revolter (Parlourphone, 1966) SONGS INCLUDE: Yellow Submarine Sandwich Plenty Of Time Got To Get You Into My Rut
Yesterday, Tomorrow, And Lunchtimes (US only - Capatol, 1966)
Travolta (unreleased concept album, 1966)
Sgt. Rutter"s Only Darts Club Band (Parlourphone, 1967) SONGS INCLUDE: Sgt. Rutter"s Only Darts Club Band Lucy In Disguise With Rutles Good Times Roll Nevertheless Sgt. Rutter"s Only Darts Club Band (reprise)
Tragical History Tour (movie soundtrack - Parlourphone, 1967) SIDE ONE Tragical History Tour The Fool On The Pill Lying Blue Gay Way Your Mother Should Go I Am The Waitress SIDE TWO Hello Get Lost W.C. Fields Forever Denny Lane Abie You"re A Rich Man All You Need Is Lunch
The Rutles (aka "The Shite Album") (double album - Rutle, 1968) SONGS INCLUDE: While My Guitarist Gently Sleeps Happiness Is A Warm Gun Another Day
Yellow Submarine Sandwich (movie soundtrack - Rutle, 1969) SONGS INCLUDE: Yellow Submarine Sandwich Cheese And Onions All You Need Is Lunch
Get Up And Go A lost album, which became "Let It Rot". Prototypes of songs that were later to appear on "Let It Rot" and "Shabby Road" were recorded, as well as "Lullaby" and a cover of an obscure Japanese folk song called "Don"t Worry Kyoko", among others.
Shabby Road (Rutle, 1969) SONGS INCLUDE: Let"s Be Natural Here Comes My Son The Lunch You Make
Let It Rot (Rutle, 1970) SONGS INCLUDE: Let It Rot Get Up And Go
White Dopes On Punk (by Dirk McQuickly & the Punk Floyd - Rutle, 1970"s)
When You Find The Girl Of Your Dreams In The Arms Of Some Scotsmen From Hull (by Barry Wom - Rutle, 1970"s) SONGS INCLUDE: When You Find The Girl Of Your Dreams In The Arms Of Some Scotsmen From Hull
Finchley Road (posthumous - NSU, 1976) SONGS INCLUDE: A Ticket To Rut
【Eric Idle as Dirk McQuickly, a parody of Paul McCartney; 】as The Narrator and as Stanley J. Krammerhead III, Jr., occasional visiting professor of applied narcotics at the University of Please Yourself, California 【John Halsey as Barry Wom (Barrington Womble), a parody of Ringo Starr】 【Ricky Fataar as Stig O'Hara, a parody of George Harrison】 【Neil Innes as Ron Nasty, a parody of John Lennon】 Michael Palin as Eric Manchester, Rutle Corp. Press Agent & Lawyer, a parody of Derek Taylor 【George Harrison as The Interviewer】 【Bianca Jagger】as Martini McQuickly John Belushi as Ron Decline, the most feared promoter in the world, a parody of Allen Klein Dan Aykroyd as Brian Thigh, ex-record producer who turned down the Rutles Gilda Radner as Mrs. Emily Pules Bill Murray as Bill Murray the K. Gwen Taylor as Mrs. Iris Mountbatten / Chastity, a parody of Yoko Ono 【Ron Wood 】as a Hell's Angel 【Terence Bayler as Leggy Mountbatten, a parody of Brian Epstein】 Henry Woolf as Arthur Sultan, the Surrey Mystic Ollie Halsall as Leppo, the "fifth Rutle" (ala Zeppo, the fourth Marx Brother), a parody of the so-called "fifth Beatle", Stuart Sutcliffe Barry Cryer as Dick Jaws, a partial parody of music publisher and singer Dick James 【Frank Williams as record producer Archie Macaw, a partial parody of George Martin】 【Mick Jagger】 as Himself Paul Simon as Himself Roger McGough as Himself
话说这部电影还有第二部:《The Rutles 2: Can't Buy Me Lunch》(2002)。但是找不到资源啊……