Ryan Gosling plays the titular stuntman, who is coaxed into a film production that gives him the opportunity to try and tie up some major loose ends in his life. Emily Blunt plays the director of the film-within-a-film, called Metalstorm.
The Fall Guy simultaneously depicts and spoofs the making a big-budget action film, with outsized personalities and egos clashing or combining with practical concerns large, small, and absurd. There's a lot a meta humor in how the relationships between the characters, and the relationship of the movie to the audience, are handled. There's lots of fun with props, too! The lighthearted vein of the story is consistent throughout and makes what would be distractions elsewhere part of the fun.
The personalities of all the characters are the main propulsion for the story; how the characters react to situations is as interesting as the situations themselves.
I've not seen the 1980's tv series staring Lee Majors that this movie was inspired by, and therefore can't speak to many references or easter eggs that might be contained in it; I can say that the film certainly stands on its own.
Worth seeing and re-seeing!
The Fall Guy simultaneously depicts and spoofs the making a big-budget action film, with outsized personalities and egos clashing or combining with practical concerns large, small, and absurd. There's a lot a meta humor in how the relationships between the characters, and the relationship of the movie to the audience, are handled. There's lots of fun with props, too! The lighthearted vein of the story is consistent throughout and makes what would be distractions elsewhere part of the fun.
The personalities of all the characters are the main propulsion for the story; how the characters react to situations is as interesting as the situations themselves.
I've not seen the 1980's tv series staring Lee Majors that this movie was inspired by, and therefore can't speak to many references or easter eggs that might be contained in it; I can say that the film certainly stands on its own.
Worth seeing and re-seeing!
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