#laura solon

[parttimesarah]

From the Alice and Peter video French Oral.

F’s in the notes for Peter…

[happy-watching]

Back to Life S02E02

[silverfox-hunter]

I've found a lovely interview with Ben and Laura Solon talking about making Tooty's Wedding and how they got started

In conversation with Ben Willbond & Laura Solon

[thecaptaincaptain]

Tooty's Wedding

A young couple's marriage hilariously hits the rocks during a weekend wedding in the country. WINNER: Discovery Award Best Short Film (LoCo - The London…

Reasons to watch Tooty’s Wedding (over and over again): 1) It’s a lovely, well written short film that has won awards - and is free to watch on the director’s page 2) It stars Ben Willbond, Mat Baynton, Laura Solon, Daisy Haggard (not in order of appearance) 3) Ben in a waistcoat 4) Ben in boxer shorts 5) Horny Ben 6) Ben speaking French 7) Mat’s in it too (I have come to appreciate the rest of the troupe, but that came later)

[pitcherplant]

14 Easter

PETER & ALSION'S GUIDE TO THE CREDIT CRUNCH Peter's lost his job in finance. Not to worry, because his wife, Alison, has a jolly scheme to make money…

How many seasons of long form prestige television have I missed watching in full on account of this 41 second video that I cannot stop replaying? 

[coldlasagnahatemyself1999]

“Ladies and gentlemen, for the next ten seconds at least, you’re watching Fast and Loose!”

[happy-watching]

Back to Life S02E02

[thecaptaincaptain]

 As a wannabe writer (of books rather than screenplays), I really enjoyed Tooty’s Wedding because: 1) the characters’ personalities are clear almost as soon as they appear (even Mat’s character, if you don’t misread his intentions like Alison does); 2) the observations are excellent (and the line about the bee-n-b, not the b-n-bee, is brilliant); 3) life is sometimes just made of these moments when we find ourselves at a place we’re not expecting to be, but resolutions come anyway, whether they are good or bad, they just are. (SPOILERS follow) Initially I wanted to like Peter (Ben!) but really he isn’t that sympathetic a character. He’s lost his job, but doesn’t know how to talk to his wife about it, doesn’t like dogs (or at least -her- dogs!), and is looking for a ready-made escape from his current situation (or so he thinks). He's not considerate in bed  and his appalling foreplay in French, something that seems to have happened before, uses an inappropriate ‘je vous presente’ (instead of ‘je te presente’). There’s the trope of the cis-straight man not knowing dates for birthdays or anniversaries (is this really a thing nowadays?). The final confrontation between Peter and Tooty just stays on the side of comedy, but could have easily crossed the line. Of course, Ben’s faces provide excellent comedic points - the forgotten dates naughty boy pose, and the 'oh-shh- it’s Doug' shocked face. Meanwhile, Alison appears to be demanding and set-in-her-ways. However, it becomes clear that she is the long-suffering one while Peter is off trying to relive his popularity with Tooty and their university 'gang’ of friends. Unlike Peter, she doesn’t appear to have any other outlets in her life besides her dogs and her swimming (her lengths). She makes an attempt to read a book that she doesn’t enjoy (and I agree with her, despite its popularity when it was published, I never got past the few pages either). She’s happy to receive Peter’s advances even though he’s clearly had too much to drink and she witnessed his goings-on with Tooty earlier... and then, when she’s at the lowest after Peter’s further failings, she too readily misreads a stranger’s offer of ‘relaxation’. At the end though, they leave together to go back to where they started but Alison has her rather-quite-high-7 and Peter has plenty of bruises.