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the boat that rocked
1.
2. Film Summary
A period comedy about an illegal radio station in the North Sea
in the 1960‟s. It tells the story of the fictitous pirate radio
station “Radio Rock” and it‟s crew of eclectic disc jockets,
who broadcast rock and pop music to the UK from a ship
anchored in the North Sea while the British government
endeavors to shut them down.
Synopsis: THE BOAT THAT ROCKED is an ensemble comedy, where the romance is between the young people of the 60's, and pop music. It's
about a band of DJs that captivate Britain, playing the music that defines a generation and standing up to a government that,
incomprehensibly, prefers jazz.In 1966 – British pop music's finest era – the BBC played just 2 hours of rock and roll every week. But pirate
radio played rock and pop from the high seas 24 hours a day. And 25 million people – over half the population of Britain – listened to the
pirates every single day.Recently expelled from school, Carl (Tom Sturridge) has been sent by his mother to find some direction in life by
visiting his godfather Quentin. However, Quentin is the boss of Radio Rock, a pirate radio station in the middle of the North Sea, populated
by an eclectic crew of rock 'n' roll DJs.They are led by The Count (Philip Seymour Hoffman); a big, brash, American, god of the airwaves, and
totally in love with the music. He's faithfully backed up by his co-broadcasters Dave (Nick Frost); ironic, intelligent and cruelly funny; Simon
(Chris O'Dowd) - super-nice and searching for true love; Midnight Mark (Tom Wisdom) - enigmatic, handsome and man of few words; Wee
Small Hours Bob - the late night DJ, whose hobbies are folk music and drugs; Thick Kevin (Tom Brooke) - possessor of the smallest
intelligence known to mankind; On-The-Hour John (Will Adamsdale) - the newsreader; and Angus 'The Nut' Nutsford (Rhys Darby) - possibly
the most annoying man in Britain.Life on the North Sea is eventful. Simon finds the woman of his dreams and is married on the boat…only to
be left by his bride the next day. Gavin (Rhys Ifans) returns from his drug tour of America to his rightful position as greatest DJ in Britain and,
in doing so, clashes with the Count. And Carl discovers the opposite sex and who his real father is.Meanwhile, pirate stations have come to
the attention of government minister Dormandy (Kenneth Branagh) who is out for the blood of these lawbreakers. In an era when the stuffy
corridors of power stifle anything approaching youthful exuberance, Dormandy seizes the chance to score a political goal and The Marine
Broadcasting Offences Act is passed in an effort to outlaw the pirates and remove their ghastly influence from the land once and for all.
What result is a literal storm on the high seas. With Radio Rock in peril, it’s devoted fans rally together and stage an epic Dunkirk-style
hundred boat rescue to save their DJ heroes. Some things may come to an end, but rock n roll never dies.
3. Production
The film is written and directed by Richard Curtis.
Produced by Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner and Hilary Bevan Jones.
Cast featuring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Bill Nighy. Rhys Ifans,
Nick Frost, and Kenneth Branagh.
Produced by Working Title Films for Universal Pictures and was
filmed on the Isle of Portland and at Shepperton Studios.
Budget was over £30 million.
4. Stars
English actor from Essex. Ice
Famous English actor, Famous American actor, age, Paul, Wild child,
starred in such films as known for mission
Love actually and Lord Shaun of the dead, hot
impossible III etc. fuzz etc.
of the Rings.
English actor,
both
parents in
the film
industry.
Also known
for a few
other films
like waiting
for forever
(2010)
5. Release
Released on 1st April 2009 in UK.
Released on 13th November 2009 in North America.
Box office £36,348,784??
Only making £6.1 million in its first 12 weeks at the British Box
office.
In US Pirate Radio was still commercially unsuccessful, earning
only approximately £5 million.
6. Pirate Radio
The name change from The boat that Rocked to Pirate Radio was
madein America.
7. Inspiration
The director Richard Curtis said “Every person in my generation has
the same memory”, “You would go to bed at night and put your
transistor radio underneath your pillow, switch it on and hear
fantastic music you could not hear elsewhere. And your parent-s
would shout from downstairs „Go to bed! Turn off the light; go to
sleep!‟ It was one of the things that made me love pop music,
that slight sense of it being illicit and illegal.”
Curtis aimed to capture the essence of Robert Altman‟s classic
MASH and John Landis‟ Animal House in the film; informality,
loose structure, male bonding and irreverent jokes. I think that
this was successful constantly through-out the film and those
words describe it perfectly.
Many of the cast was sent to „Boot Camp‟ which involved them
living and rehearsing on the boat which they would be filming.
Rhys Ifans said “It worked as a bonding exercise”.
