Wednesday, June 17, 2015

Richard Ayoade and Arctic Monkeys: charming juncture of music and film

I think it’s serious time I do some job writing about Richard Ayoade, man clearly deeply inspired by Arctic Monkeys work.
Now, he is British film director and he’s done quite some work I've found about only now.
I believe all of the Monkeys’ fanbase is familiar with Submarine, film whose soundtrack is made by Alex Turner himself, but let’s not stop here.
Our man Richard directed a short film called Scummy, inspired by all time favourite When the Sun goes down from Monkeys’ debut studio album Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not.

To continue about our old sport: he also directed documentary Arctic Monkeys at the Apollo, which is, if I’m not mistaken, included in their official discography.

(Update 20th June 2015)
Richard's 2013 newborn: The Double.
Although it had listed in credits as inspiration only Fyodor Dostoevsky's great novella: at the very start of the film, situated in a train, one can see how Ayoade was strongly inspired by Turner's short story The Choice of Three
signed as Margita

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