Songs That Could Be Movies: Blur
7 fantastic Blur tracks that should be scripts…
BY Jul 2nd 2009 15:15PMFILED UNDER: Features
We've got a feeling that one day, Hollywood will run out of books, comics and other films to adapt, and they'll turn to music, weaving movie trilogies from three-minute pop songs.
We've already decided which David Bowie tracks could be movies.
Now we've turned our attention to Blur, fresh from their Glastonbury triumph, as they prepare to bring Britpop back to Hyde Park.
And if there are any studio executives in the audience tonight, making notes, we claim copyright on the following pitches...
Country House (1995)
Blur's first number-one single. It's rumoured to be about a legendary record executive Damon took a disliking to, but is probably more well known for being the song that put Blur and Oasis on the News At Ten.
The movie will ignore all that.
The Movie:
A sweeping costume drama, following the lives and loves of a group of aristocrats who live in a house, a very big house. In the country.
The central character, Raff, is an Oscar Wilde style wit, who spends all day elaborately insulting his friends.
But despite his confident exterior, Raff is lonely, and longs for companionship.
The Cast:
Stephen Fry as Raff, David Mitchell as Thomas, a young Lord who idolises Raff, but will never, ever be as good as him, no matter how hard he tries.
Sample Dialogue:
Raff: “I'm a professional cynic but my heart's not in it.”
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