Ayoade on Top

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For whatever reason (perhaps the same reason that sometimes The Wiggles’ sole line of “fruit salad, yummy yummy”, will course through my mind while I’m in a Professional Business Meeting, or 26m below the Java Sea, or mid-coitus, or any other yummy yummy fruit salad-absent scenario), scenes from Top have followed me ever since that fateful summer.

The book itself is a parody of high-brow interviews with film directors. It probably helps if you've taken a film studies class or two in college, as the satire of this writing style is pretty spot on. Ayoade's interviews are totally ridiculous, however, and this is not a book to read if you want to learn anything purely factual about him. The constant absurdism does raise the question of whether there's anything true in the book, even on a metaphorical level. I think the answer is yes. The others are really good actors, so [the show] can contain something which is more of a turn than an acting performance – I wouldn't dignify what I do by calling it acting," he told The Guardian in 2011. Scott, A.O. (2 June 2011). "Coming of Age, and Then to Terms". The New York Times . Retrieved 6 March 2018. Ayoade has written three comedic film–focused books: Ayoade on Ayoade: A Cinematic Odyssey (2014), The Grip of Film (2017), and Ayoade on Top (2019). He wrote the children's book The Book That No One Wanted to Read (2022) [4] and is writing a picture book called The Fairy Tale Fan Club. [5] I've had the (dis)pleasure of watching View From the Top so, as soon as I discovered that it was going to be the topic for Richard Ayoade's third book, I knew I had to read this book. It was nearly 15 years ago now but I am still haunted by that film. The horrible orange outfit that Gwyneth and the cringe-inducing singalong during the credits. The film was badly made, badly written, and badly acted. We laughed our way through it. Definitely not something you can easily forget. And don't get me started on the feminist issues that the film raises or we'll be here all night. Whatever I think about the film, I was super excited to see Ayoade break it down into minute detail. His last two books have shown us how much of cinephile he is but this book looks set to take it even further.He's written a very tongue-in-cheek book about View from the Top, a flop 2003 movie in which Gwyneth Paltrow portrays an ambitious flight attendant. Of course his ramblings and in depth analogies of the scenes were what kept the book together, kept it funny and kept me going, although sometimes, being as wordy as it was, it was hard to follow sometimes. I was expecting something more like a memoir but Ayoade really sounds like a high class film reviewer as he discusses certain dialogue or scenes, or at least he would if he wasn't subvertently and completely taking the piss out of it. Gritten, David (10 March 2011). "Richard Ayoade: Hidden depths of the bashful filmmaker". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 12 January 2022 . Retrieved 7 March 2018. Richard Ayoade on film-making, supporting Richard Gere and living with Ipswich inside him". The Guardian. 29 August 2019 . Retrieved 8 October 2019.

I read this book because I am an admirer of Richard Ayoade's performance on the British sitcom, The IT Crowd, and his two films, Submarine and The Double. Like many books by comedians, Ayoade on Ayoade is a vehicle for jokes, and most of them are funny. Ayoade is particularly good at making up fake movie plots (see Hot Sauce 2: The Afterburn). Phillips, Michael (26 July 2012). " 'The Watch': These guardians out of time, tune". Chicago Tribune . Retrieved 6 March 2018. BAFTA Television awards 2014: Richard Ayoade with the BAFTA for Male Performance in a Comedy Programme". Digital Spy . Retrieved 7 September 2014. See Noel Fielding and Richard Ayoade in the Lego Movie 2". Chortle. 20 January 2019 . Retrieved 8 October 2019. Ritman, Alex (16 March 2017). "Timothy Spall, Richard Ayoade Board Aardman's 'Early Man' as Teaser Trailer Debuts". The Hollywood Reporter . Retrieved 7 March 2018.It’s like a dream from which you wake, only to realise you were dreaming that you were dreaming. Which is why the choice of ‘Time After Time’ is so perfect. It gently speaks, and often squawks, of the cyclical nature of all narrative. When you hear the song, you feel you’ve heard it before, and you have. Because the story’s an old one: a lover leaves, leaving nothing behind but generalities.” Bond, Michael (13 October 2014). "UK iPhone ad features Chris O' Dowd and Rchard Ayoade (The IT Crowd)". Engadget . Retrieved 1 January 2015. Richard Ayoade and Jonathan Ross endorse Graham Linehan memoir about being 'cancelled' ". The Independent. 15 September 2023 . Retrieved 17 September 2023. Dams, Tim (28 May 2020). "BAFTA Sets New July Dates for Postponed Television and Craft Awards". Variety . Retrieved 29 May 2020.