Another
“something completely different,” filmography-wise. PRS the
Movie is a promotional video for the Performing Right Society – i.e. the
organization that ensures British musicians are paid royalties for their
work. It won’t be topping any Best of PC
lists, but it really is a lot more enjoyable than you’d think a promotional
video for the Performing Right Society would be.
For the
most part, the video takes place on a distant planet, a sort-of-parallel Earth
in which the rights of musicians go unprotected. In this world, poor Felix Fallop writes the
hit of the last several decades, but despite the song’s ubiquitous presence on
stages, radios, and TVs around the globe, he hasn’t seen a penny. If only he lived on actual Earth, where PRS
looks after songsters like him!
Yes, it’s
incredibly pointed and more than a little preachy, but it has a kooky sense of
humor that’s fun. The sequence of Felix
trying to extract money out of everyone from radio-playing pub owners to church
choirs is especially funny.
PC
appears very briefly (if he’d been
famous in 1989, I’d have called it a cameo, but as it is, it’s just a bit part)
as a radio DJ. It’s a tiny role, but
amusing – PC’s radio voice is pretty ridiculous.
Surprisingly,
PC isn’t the only familiar face that PRS enlisted for their promotional
video. From what IMDb tells me, Jim
Broadbent wasn’t hugely famous at this time, but he had a lot of film and
television work under his belt, and Tony Robinson would’ve still been riding
the crest of the Blackadder wave.
Accent Watch
I think
it’s RP, though London wouldn’t be out of the realm of possibility. More importantly, it’s completely bonkers.
I love it.
Recommend?
In
General
– Naw. Points to PRS for making an
entertaining promotional video featuring some skilled comic actors, but at the
end of the day, it’s still just a promotional video.
PC-wise – For completists only,
a few blinks up from “blink and you’ll miss it.”
Warnings
Nothing
note-worthy.
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