{"id":614375,"date":"2024-03-26T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-26T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-a-documentary-in-two-pieces-review\/"},"modified":"2024-03-26T19:00:00","modified_gmt":"2024-03-26T16:00:00","slug":"watch-a-documentary-in-two-pieces-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-a-documentary-in-two-pieces-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch A Documentary in Two Pieces&#8217; Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2f35fd9e639\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2f35fd9e639\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-a-documentary-in-two-pieces-review\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_A_Documentary_in_Two_Pieces_Review%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online A Documentary in Two Pieces&#8217; Review&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-a-documentary-in-two-pieces-review\/#%E2%80%9CA_Documentary_in_Two_Pieces_Review%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;A Documentary in Two Pieces&#8217; Review&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_A_Documentary_in_Two_Pieces_Review%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Online A Documentary in Two Pieces&#8217; Review&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CA_Documentary_in_Two_Pieces_Review%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;A Documentary in Two Pieces&#8217; Review&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Why does Steve Martin need a two-part documentary? He doesn\u2019t, of course, although Martin himself divided his career into separate chapters, any one of which could support its own film \u2014 stand-up co<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a>n, Hollywood movie star, playwright, novelist, bluegrass musician and most recently, \u201cOnly Murders in the Building\u201d co-creator and star \u2014 so fans aren\u2019t likely to complain about getting extra time with such a private subject.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Normally, a documentarian with access to a celebrity of Martin\u2019s caliber would pick a focus, or else try to generate some kind of career-encompassing overview. Not Morgan Neville, the Oscar-winning director who so poignantly profiled children\u2019s TV host Fred Rogers in \u201cWon\u2019t You Be My Neighbor?\u201d While similarly beloved, Martin isn\u2019t such an open book, despite having written with self-deprecating candor about the obstacles and inspirations to his comedy career in his memoir, \u201cBorn Standing Up.\u201d For this <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">App<\/a>le TV+ exclusive, Neville attempts something wholly unconventional, splitting the project into two distinct feature-length pieces, \u201cThen\u201d and \u201cNow,\u201d which take radically different forms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    The first part is a fairly straightforward, largely archival look at the first half of Martin\u2019s life, featuring rare journals and personal recordings from his childhood in Orange County, Calif. (where he dreamed of being a magician and scored an early job at Disneyland), to the moment he decided to step away from stand-up comedy altogether. That was 1980. Three decades later, I scooped up tickets to see Martin headline a comedy show at Just for Laughs in Montreal, hoping to see the legend perform live, but instead of telling jokes, Martin came out with his banjo and proceeded to give a folk music concert. The joke was on us.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Martin had effectively slammed the door on that part of the persona \u2014 although in a career of surprises, he would reinvent himself again much later, performing opposite \u201cThree Amigos\u201d co-star Martin Short in \u201cOnly Murders.\u201d \u201cThat\u2019s so amazing. You were a single stand-up and then found you liked working as a team,\u201d remarks Jerry Seinfeld in a generous (and frequently insightful) sit-down interview with Martin that appears in the deeply personal second part. A fluffy Seinfeld sound bite opens \u201cThen\u201d as well: \u201cThis guy was getting people so happy,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Cultural tastes change so quickly, especially when it comes to what makes people laugh, that there\u2019s a built-in challenge to recapping any comedian\u2019s early career \u2014 which no doubt explains why Neville steers clear of \u201cKing Tut\u201d (a song that younger listeners find problematic). Full of happy feet and flailing limbs, the 94-minute \u201cThen\u201d episode seems better suited to audiences old enough to remember Martin\u2019s live shows, since clips and recaps hardly do them justice. Still, the film does a fine job of deconstructing what made his act so revolutionary: While other comics were doing political material, here was a \u201cclean guy in a white suit\u201d being silly. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Instead of shaping his performances around traditionally timed punchlines, Martin poked fun at the codes of comedy. Like the parody of a bad lounge act, he cheated at juggling, made misshapen balloon animals, wore novelty headgear (bunny ears and rubber arrow gags), took banjo breaks and wriggled and danced like the world\u2019s most obnoxious party guest \u2014 whom he dubbed \u201ca wild and crazy guy.\u201d Johnny Carson loved him. Hip crowds bought his albums and adopted his catchphrases (\u201cWell, excu-u-use me!\u201d). <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Before Martin\u2019s hair went white, he grew it out. And when it did turn, that made the contrast between childish routines and his old-enough-to-know-better appearance that much funnier. Martin\u2019s key innovation came in subverting the indicators other comics used to tell people when to bark their approval. \u201cThat\u2019s not real laughter,\u201d he tells Neville. \u201cWhat if I created tension and never released it? \u2026 The audience would have to pick their own place to laugh.\u201d Martin\u2019s approach confounded some, like the patrons of the Playboy Club, but it ultimately proved so popular (especially after hosting early episodes of \u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d) that he was soon selling out arenas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    And then Martin pulled the plug \u2014 a decision that \u201cThen\u201d only half explains. There were the anxiety attacks, the way work preempted his private life, the impossibility of impressing his father. As this film\/episode comes to a close, Martin still has an immensely popular movie career ahead of him as the screenwriter and star of \u201cThe Jerk,\u201d \u201cRoxanne\u201d and more. Instead of picking up there, the \u201cNow\u201d portion skips forward more than four decades to join Martin in the present.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    \u201cHow did I go from riddled with anxiety in my 30s to 75 and really happy?\u201d Martin muses, playing along with an entirely different kind of documentary \u2014 one where the subject <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a>ly invites cameras into his personal space. Based on the first half, audiences have been primed to expect a film-by-film tour through his big-screen career, but apart from dwelling on the disappointment of \u201cPennies from Heaven,\u201d Martin seems uninterested in telling stories about that four-decade stretch (most of which he already shared in \u201cNumber One Is Walking,\u201d a cartoon memoir illustrated by Harry Bliss). <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    So instead they get something considerably more intimate, as Martin draws back the curtain on his life. At times, in mock reality-TV fashion, he does banal things like poach eggs for breakfast or play cards with Short and second wife Anne Stringfield, teasing the camera crew for filming even when he fails to see the interest. But he\u2019s not the only one here who can work magic. Neville and his team have unearthed revealing moments from the archives, ranging from a tear-filled Charlie Rose interview to a cruel red-carpet stunt in which Paul Kaye\u2019s Dennis Pennis character asks Martin, \u201cHow come you\u2019re not funny anymore?\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Where \u201cThen\u201d felt like an exercise in putting comedy under a microscope, \u201cNow\u201d is genuinely amusing, as when Martin and Short workshop jokes for their live show, gently roasting one another in the process. There\u2019s a melancholy to Martin that his more effusive amigo helps to counteract, and it\u2019s touching to see how this dynamic operates behind the scenes, even if both cutups are clearly playing to the cameras. (Former partners, family members and longtime friends, including John McEuen and Adam Gopnik, reveal additional dimensions of the man.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Nothing in the first episode quite prepares audiences for where Neville plans to take them in the follow-up. Sure, the roots of the unhappy dynamic with his dad are there, paying off Martin\u2019s own late-life parenting efforts, but \u201cNow\u201d would likely move people just as well if screened by itself. It\u2019s so different in form from \u201cThen\u201d that the films feel like separate answers to a single assignment, rather than two halves of a complete project. If anything, they\u2019re disconnected pieces of a far larger puzzle \u2014 one that comes into greater focus when considered alongside multiple memoirs, books and plays (like the self-reflexive \u201cWasp,\u201d which Neville stages with Finn Whitrock in the role of the patriarch), original cartoons and, yes, even Martin\u2019s beloved banjo music.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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