He’s just one of the most charismatic people in the world to me. Jay and I both wanted Jerrod Carmichael from the start. I wanted just the best, brightest, funniest actors out there,” he said. “It is unbelievable how many people we got from literally just the first treatment I wrote up. Yang knew he needed an equally strong cast that evoked the same recognition. In the original “Friends” ensemble, each person carries their own weight when it comes to personality and comedy. Watch the video below and then read on for how it all came together. It was just how overwhelming it was in culture.” Much less, a comedy, you know? That was one of the reasons I picked it.
It’s just this thing that dominated culture in such a way that it’s difficult for a show to have done since. I’ve met Marta Kauffman, who’s one of the creators and she’s super, super sweet. “I’d have friends who were obsessed with it. “I’ve seen every episode of ‘Seinfeld,’ but it was impossible not to be affected by ‘Friends.’ It was impossible to not accidentally catch an episode,” he said. Oddly enough, Yang was more of a fan of “Seinfeld” than he was of “Friends.” That’s sort of just the jumping-off point for the whole thing.” Part of what this film conveys is how far we’ve come as a culture in terms of representation and how far we still have to go. That’s why it was really important for us to just do a shot-for-shot remake of that episode. But there’s something powerful about the real material. ‘Friends’ was not a racist show by any means. We just used the actual clips and I still remember how powerful it was to see those actual clips and just remember how recently that was.
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The recreation itself is still worth a look, and it is entertaining to see such a famous cast replaced – albeit replaced by a very well- known African-American cast however to focus on this is to miss the sharper content – although to be fair, the film could have spent longer on that aspect of it and done more with it too.Yang added, “One of the things, I think, that has been rattling around in my brain for a while is the conversation we had way back in Season 1 of ‘Master of None,’ when we did the ‘Indians on TV’ episode, where we started that episode with a montage of all of these films that had portrayed Indian characters as sort of racist caricatures and TV shows with characters making fun of them.
I wish this moment was longer and offered more, because Carmichael does deliver with the look on his face. Well, not so much that moment, but the detachment that Carmichael suddenly feels while the comedy carries on in the background. This is directly referenced at the end of the film in case you didn't pick up on it, but I prefer the content of the short where Jerrod Carmichael (playing Ross) is confronted by Hannibal Buress about his work in Friends. This is most evident in the lyrics and title of the track, which reference of course Moonlight (which won best picture), and La La Land (which took a lot of the shine off the victory in the moment). What does strike though is the sense of working harder to get less, of losing a little even in victory.
I'm not aware enough of American culture to appreciate the references to Friends' concept allegedly being taken directly from a less successful African-American television show, although that is one level also I'm not really a fan of Friends or know the episodes enough to appreciate the precision of which this recreation is accurate. There are a lot of levels to enjoy the extended video for Jay-Z's moonlight, although ironically the track itself isn't really one of them since it seems to be the least part of the running time.
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