The title of the last “Cheeych & Chong” makes it look like another of the integrated duo duo to click, but who is not? Comedian friends. Looking at their age (Tommy Chung is about to be 87 years old;
But no, it turns out that the last “Cheeych & Chong” is a straight documentary (if not always completely straight), a two -hour movie to follow the lives of comic revolutionaries. We hear about their interesting life stories (Chung as a prominent musician began in a mummoppiece collection; Chic was excited about being a Potter), and they came behind the herb, their work developed, and the way they became Hyir of tremors …, linking the movie together, and linking the film. Type like Will Ferrell and Harper Steel in “Will & Harper”. Although we believe that we are on a strange journey from nostalgia to the past, the journey that may be more texts is more than it looks, and the two begin to quarrels and argue over things, and the anger is real, because it is clear that they can still push each other’s buttons. They are like Paul and John of the enthusiasm of baked goods.
I grew up with Cheeych and Chong, but I never counted myself as a major fan of her. I laughed in the first album when I was in middle school, and I was tending to find it loved but also clumsy and repeated, and I thought their films, after the good “Up in Smoke”, ranged from excessive to the distress. However, looking at all of this, I was surprised to see how she won by the last movie “Cheeych & Chong”. I have never spent a minute to think about how these two assembly together, but the development of their career, which did not constitute a much more calculation than the comedies that are often often, turned out to be a wonderful and charming story.
Cheeych and Chong often looked as if they were supposed to be simply, as they run out like random herbs from the soil of anti -culture. They came at the ideal moment, which reduces the entire world of fiber to my vibrant. The hidden joke of their routine-even that many types of drugs with long hair in the audience did not get-that the counter culture was more. She has already turned into a sarcastic simulation for herself, and Cheeych and Chong hit that one step to sudden madness.
The two seemed to come out of the latter, and for this reason they gave everyone who saw them high. But it is not as if they started to be Martin and Louis in the seventies of the last century. The documentary opens with a group of clips of their climax, when they seemed everywhere, saying ingenious and extensive things in TV talk shows (Chong: “It is not difficult to see what drugs do for you.” they (Johnny Carson: “Have you heard of the new death penalty? You have to stand between Cheeych and Chong for half an hour”).
The film jumps a little for their youth. Chong, whose Chinese father and mother, Irish Scotch, grew up in the poor rural Canada, from which his border Buddhist philosophy developed: All that happens is to happen, so dealing with it. Cheeych grew in the south of Central Los Angeles, which was very violent. He recalls, “I saw three murders in front of my eyes by the time when I was seven years old.” He was one of the only Chicanos in a black neighborhood mostly, then his father, Los Angeles policeman, the family, was transferred to Greenada Hills in the San Fernando Valley, which was almost exclusive white. All of this is the best way in his comedy, in his comedy, his role, which plays his unconventional, and brave, brave, as if he had just arrived from another planet. Who was part of his hair. Cheeych Marin was one of the founding fathers of the Latin populism of the American pop, with a character new To the main current that opened the door for everyone from Freddy Brienz to John Leguzamo.
He met and Wattomi in Vancouver, where Chung was running a numerous club and had a wildlife, with two separate families – his wife, Maxin, and he had two children (including Ray Don Chung), and his lover Shilby, who became pregnant the night that dropped the acid. His lifestyle became more fraught when he joined Bobby Taylor and Vancouver, who were discovered by SuPremes. Chung Cature The song “Do you know Mama about me?” And that was drawn No. 9 in 1968. But by the beginning of the contract, the musical life was wearing it, and it became owned by a comedy, running an improvisation band called the committee from the nudity club. Cheeych was appointed to cover the band by its equivalent in Canada for the Rolling Stone magazine, and joined them. With the fading culture, as well as all members of the committee … except Cheech and Chong. But they admit that they stole many of their classic parts – such as those who committed suicide on dogs – from the band.
The Cheech and Chong march, like their routine, was an ideal storm for Prosstance. Just as Andy Kaufman raised his foreign character from a person who met him in the college, Chung picked up his word “O man!” Something from a man -based Vancouver Sonkover called Strawberry, based in Cheeych for him Personality on Hitchhiker, who can barely continue to convert because he was very busy checking “chicken”.
The comedy clubs were not yet present, so, they played Cheeych and Chong, which moved to Los Angeles, Al -Rouh Clubs, and opened to everyone from Isley Brothers to Ray Charles to Defonics. This gave them a unique double. They were comedies of colored, at the same time, sending a culture of mostly white. After that, one night, they played the role of Sharbour (the place where Elton John was high to the prominent stars during three shows), when he hit the fate. It would have been in the audience. It was the legendary recorder that produced Mamas, Papas, Sam Cooke and Carol King “TAPESTRY”. He grew up in Boyle Heights, the Jewish section in East Los Angeles, and confessed to the characters by Cheeych and Chong. They signed a deal with Adler, who had his own registration company, in April 1971, which put them there.
How to learn to work in the registration studio is the most amazing story in the movie. Initially, they did not know what they were doing. They had to learn improvisation … inside the Sonic Stadium in the studio. When they did it, in the drawing titled “Dave” (although the fans called it “Dave’s Not HERE”), the result was magic. If I said, it would have been the ability to explode to radio stations everywhere. And continue. They were working in the same situation as the Firesign and National Radio Hour Theater, but Cheeych and Chong were very low, somewhat low, racist sweat, and a comprehensive version, as if they were expecting the upcoming Hollywood revolution in how it aimed at Anu-Ghan-Gue.
Their films, starting with “Up and Smoke” (made by Adler), made them larger stars, although Adler had signed them on the Chintzy deal that although the film achieved $ 50 million in the United States (a large amount of 1978), it was paid only $ 25,000 each. They spent in the movie “Cheeych and Chong’s Next Movie” (1980), but in my opinion the beginning of the end of their fruitful creative region – apparently, for many of the happiest aspects of their partnership. When Chung brought out the second feature, this led to a power struggle-and in the desert riding talks “Cheeych & Chong”, it is clear that they are still in war on this topic. Chish thought that Chung has become a stranger. Chung admitted that he was controlling a cinematic director, but he says that he made Cheey the movie star. I think both are absent from the real point: that their films started It was absorbed, and they should have been looking for a real cinematic director.
“Cheeych and Chong’s Last Movie” contains a conclusion inspired, as the two have been subjected to the jurisdiction in the desert, only to look across the road and watch a place called the joint, with a giant joint decorating the ceiling. So it seems as if they had reached heaven. Smoking anesthetic was previously considered as a revolutionary activity, a path to “freedom”. You free your mind from excessive traditional rationality. A long time ago, though, it became just an amazing middle -class Hodop. “Cheeych & Chong’s Last Movie” celebrates how Cheeych and Chong celebrate the livestock from the central point between these two things. They made us laugh at how we all learned to stop anxiety and love Bong.