![]() Made by Old St Andrews for Paramount and Riviera Imports, the US$25 blend was variously reported to be a mix of 60% malt and 40% grain, or 30% malt and 70% grain (more likely, given the price).įeaturing whiskies ‘from Speyside, the Highlands and Islay’, it was an immediate hit – Riviera Imports CEO Ed Caan told Fox Business that an initial shipment of 72,000 bottles sold out in days. So much so that a real Scotch whisky, Ron Burgundy Great Odin’s Raven Special Reserve, was released to coincide with the release of the second film. But no matter that ‘Scotchy Scotch Scotch’ clip has already done its work. There’s Burgundy’s memorable dinner order – ‘I am going to have three fingers of Glenlivet with a little bit of pepper and some cheese’ – and what amounts to a mission statement: ‘I love poetry and a glass of Scotch, and of course my friend Baxter here.’Īnd that’s about it. What’s surprising is just how seldom whisky crops up. Scotchy Scotch: The whisky bearing Ron Burgundy’s name was a $25 blend Something of the surreal flavour of that original Anchorman concept remains: for instance, when an angry biker, hit by a burrito flung through a car window, punts Burgundy’s dog, Baxter, off a road bridge into a river. Or, in the sequel, when Burgundy is temporarily blinded in a freak ice-skating accident while playing jazz flute. The next version was made – but its plot involving the news team chasing a group of hippie bank robbers tested badly, so the film was extensively reshot, inserting the running story of a pregnant panda at San Diego Zoo.īoth films’ plots – the first involving the arrival of an ambitious female news anchor, the second Burgundy’s comeback on a CNN-like rolling news network – are all but incidental, simply providing some kind of flimsy structure to link the laughs. The original script involved a crashed planeload of newsmen pursued by murderous orang-utans wielding throwing stars amazingly, it was thought a little too off-the-wall to be taken any further. That didn’t get made but, encouraged by director Paul Thomas Anderson, they went on to develop Anchorman.īut not the Anchorman we know. Staying classy: Will Ferrell in full character as the legendary Ron Burgundyįerrell and McKay were both working on Saturday Night Live when they wrote a script called August Blowout, later described by Ferrell as ‘like Glengarry Glen Ross meets a car dealership’. Made in the same silly spirit as Dodgeball or There’s Something About Mary, the Anchorman films – Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues followed almost a decade later – plough a broad comic furrow that eschews political correctness and plays just about everything for laughs – the more puerile the better.ĭirected by Adam McKay from an endlessly quotable script – ‘It is anchorman, not anchorlady – and that is a scientific fact!’ … ‘I’m in a glass case of emotion!’ … ‘By the beard of Zeus!’ – the first film was a slow burner that eventually acquired cult status, but almost didn’t get made at all. ‘Mm, I love Scotch,’ he intones, moments before the cameras roll on the latest news bulletin. We first meet Burgundy, played by Will Ferrell, at the opening of the 2004 film Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, with glass in hand. He had ‘a voice that could make a wolverine purr and suits so fine they made Sinatra look like a hobo’… ‘I don’t know how to put this, but I’m kind of a big deal,’ he would say, with characteristic self-effacement. ![]() According to his official biography, Ronald Joseph Aaron Ron Burgundy is a five-times Emmy Award-winning journalist, who anchored KVWN Channel 4 News in San Diego (pronounced, of course, San Dee-argo) from 1964 to 1977.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
Details
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |