Adam McKay’s transition from silly comedies to serious social satire has made him one of the most fascinating directors working today. But if you reexamine his many broadly humorous hits, you’ll find that most of them already contain serious subtext that presaged his later career shift. But how do those early comedies compare with his more recent ambitious, complicated political commentaries? Let’s look at McKay’s entire feature directorial career and see how far he’s come, and how all his films hold up today:
8. “Wake Up, Ron Burgundy: The Lost Movie” (2004)
Lots of movies have deleted scenes, but Adam McKay’s directorial debut “Anchorman” had so much extra material that McKay was able to make a feature-length movie out of it, released as a special feature on the DVD (exclusively at Best Buy). A lot of “Wake Up, Ron Burgundy” consists of alternate versions of scenes fans are already familiar with,...
8. “Wake Up, Ron Burgundy: The Lost Movie” (2004)
Lots of movies have deleted scenes, but Adam McKay’s directorial debut “Anchorman” had so much extra material that McKay was able to make a feature-length movie out of it, released as a special feature on the DVD (exclusively at Best Buy). A lot of “Wake Up, Ron Burgundy” consists of alternate versions of scenes fans are already familiar with,...
- 12/21/2018
- by William Bibbiani
- The Wrap
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