Whose idea was the film? Did the idea start with the writer, or were writers brought in to develop a preconceived idea?
The boat that rocked was written and directed by Richard Curtis.
What are the issues with the genre of the film?
The genre of the film is comedy, but in some cases the target audience did not find it amusing and some say it is sexiest and rudely reflects on rock and roll.
Curtis hangs situation and character comedy on a homage to rock’n’roll. That would be fine if it were funny, but auto-pilot Curtis prevails.
This is one review i found on the Internet, reflecting on the film negatively.
Where did the idea come from? Was it an original idea, or perhaps a book frist, or TV series, or comic strip, or from some other source?
after looking a good ten minutes on the internet i could find no sign of any background to the film 'The boat that rocked' and found myself beleiving that the film was made from scratch, and had no background objects like books etc.
Who wrote the original script? did other people become involved in the writing as the project progressed?
Richard curtis the male that had written the story has also wrote the script to the comedy movie. There is three other people that hepled with the production of the film and they are; Tim Bevan, Elen Fellner, Hillary Beaven Jones.
How easy was it to arrange the financial backing to make the film? Who were the financial backers? Why?
Budget-
over 30 million
Gross revenue-
$35,166,683
This was all i could find to do with the financial side of the boat that rocked.
casting- who were the cast in the main roles and why? what other films featured the stars? what were the associations they bought with them?
Philip Seymour Hoffman as The Count,
Bill Nighy as Quentin,
Rhys Ifans as Gavin, Star DJ
Nick Frost as Dr. Dave, DJ "
Katherine Parkinson as Felicity, the lesbian cook
Tom Sturridge as Young Carl, Quentin's godson
Talulah Riley as Marianne, Quentin's niece
Tom Brooke as 'Thick' Kevin, Carl's cabin-mate
Chris O'Dowd as Breakfast DJ Simple Simon Swafford
Rhys Darby as Angus "The Nut" Nutsford, DJ
Will Adamsdale as newsreader John
Tom Wisdom as 'Midnight' Mark, DJ,
Ralph Brown as Bob 'the Dawn Treader', DJ, Carl's father
Ike Hamilton as Harold, radio assistant
Kenneth Branagh as Minister Allistair Dormandy (a loose parody of then-Postmaster General Tony Benn), who aims to shut the station down)
Jack Davenport as Dominic Twatt, a civil servant (his full name is only ever referenced in a deleted scene)
Emma Thompson as Charlotte, Carl's mother
January Jones as Elenore
Gemma Arterton as Desiree
Sinead Matthews as Miss C
Stephen Moore as the Prime Minister (Harold Wilson was Prime Minister in 1966)
Olegar Fedoro as the Rock Boat's helmsman
Who composed the film music and why was he or she chosen?
Richard Curtis: There are some anomalies, I would say. There are one or two songs we could never get and could never get to the bottom of why we couldn’t get to the bottom of them. We couldn’t get If Paradise Is Half As Nice by Amen Corner for some reason or other. And we wanted For What It’s Worth by Buffalo Springfield but they decided it had been used too many times in too many ads or something. There was a Doors song we wanted which was way over a million dollars, so we couldn’t have that. There was some bargaining but we got most of what we wanted.
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