'For Your consideration' (2006)
'For Your Consideration' is the latest offering from Christopher Guest and his regular ensemble cast. In this feature, Hollywood is the target of their derision. ‘For Your Consideration’ follows the film-within-a-film format, the action focusing on the set of a tawdry Jewish period drama called 'Home for Purim'. Academy awards buzz around three of the cast members gives vent to their desperate and fragile egos as they begin to believe the hype (whether real or imagined).
At the insistence of the Studio head (a cameo role from Ricky Gervais) who complains that the film is ‘too Jewish’, ‘Home for Purim’ is ultimately stripped of all its cultural specifity, becoming just another blandardised Hollywood feature, remarketed as 'Home for Thanksgiving'!
My favourite part of the film is when we see the actors whoring themselves around the Hollywood promotional circuit, evidently after visits to the stylist or plastic surgeon - Victor’s painfully embarrassing appearance on teen show 'Chillaxin’ is a thing of beauty'!
One criticism of the film could be that perhaps Hollywood is too obvious and easy a target for this kind of parody. I would argue however that Hollywood provides us with a seemingly limitless amount material ripe for satire, and we are perhaps more familiar with the clichés that abound, possibly more so than with Guest’s previous film subjects? Ultimately I found this a cruelly funny film in its ridicule of the fickleness and vacuity of the Hollywood production line.
Corporal Tench
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