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The duo agreed, after writing a script for What We Do in the Shadows, to have the film be made up of entirely improvised performances.

Flight of the conchords jemaine clement movie#

Clement was also behind a number of dastardly movie villains, including Boris the Animal in Men in Black 3 and Nigel the nefarious parrot in Rio and Rio 2.

Flight of the conchords jemaine clement tv#

Waititi was nominated for an Oscar for his short film, Two Cars, One Night, and went on to write, direct and appear in a number of large and small features, including his award-winning 2010 film Boy and 2011's The Green Lantern (as Tom Kalmaku). Clement went on the TV show (and to subsequently tour) as one half of the popular comedy duo Flight of the Conchords. After making the low-budget short film Some Interviews With Some Vampires in 2005, the project was put on the back burner after the careers of its respective creators took off. What We Do in the Shadows was a long time coming. Shark, and the pair subsequently collaborated on various episodes of Flight of the Conchords. Clement was a lead in Waititi's first full-length feature, 2007's Eagle vs. The pair met in college in the 1990s and went on to form comedy troupe So You're a Man (which featured Clement's future Flight of the Conchords partner Bret McKenzie) and the Humourbeasts. "And then we would ride around the streets of Masterton on bikes, yelling out to girls: 'I vant to drink your blood!'"

"The only rule was that everyone had to wear those fake teeth," Clement told the New Zealand Herald last year. Anything with sharp teeth, really."Ĭlement saw Scars of Dracula as a child and was fascinated by it he later formed a neighborhood "vampire gang," which involved him and his friends wearing capes and fake teeth and riding around on bicycles scaring other kids. Waititi told the New Zealand Herald in June 2014 that "I've loved vampires since I was a kid, or loved a lot of the vampire movies that I saw. That love of old vampire movies has its roots in the childhoods of Clement and Waititi, both of whom are longtime fans of the genre. Watchful moviegoers will spot scenes, characters and looks from The Lost Boys, Fright Night, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Nosferatu and numerous Hammer horror films, alongside the obvious mockumentary-style nods to Spinal Tap and the comedic-horror style trappings of Shaun of the Dead. The notion of the outsider is one that strongly resonates throughout the work, offering a rich, and occasionally bloody, palette on which to examine ideas of community and belonging.Īcting as an anchor amidst the fantastical elements is Stu (played by real-life friend Stu Rutherford), the unassuming human friend who assumes an Everyman role amid a raft of clever gags and loving references to old vampire films. Much of what powers the movie is this delicious tension between the mundane world of humans and the fantastical realm of vampires.

You smile seeing them observe a sunrise on YouTube and recall your own wonder watching online video for the first time. You laugh at the vampires as they argue, hissing and flying, over who should do the dishes, even as you wince at your own memories of slobbish roommates. There is a scintillating mix of the absurd and the familiar in What We Do in the Shadows. (You have to be invited, natch.)Īs the film builds to the "Unholy Masquerade," an annual event that brings together Wellington's supernatural community, including ravenous zombies, viewers watch the vampires attempt to balance the demands of a unique, sometimes difficult-to-sustain diet while distancing themselves from the local werewolf population (lead by Anton, played by Rhys Darby, best known to American audiences as Murray the Manager in Flight of the Conchords), sighing over old lovers and working out the nature of a burgeoning friendship with a human they just can't bring themselves to feast upon.

The movie takes a pseudo-documentary style - a "New Zealand Documentary Board" logo appears at the start - with the flatmates arguing over household chores, entertaining visitors and showing the challenges of getting into clubs. Complications arise when newly created vampire Nick (Cori Gonzalez-Macuer) and human friend Stu (Stu Rutherford) come into the fold. The premise: Four vampires, the medieval Vladislav (Clement), foppish Viago (Waititi), rebel Deacon (Jonathan Brugh) and cranky Petyr (Ben Fransham) share a house in Wellington, New Zealand.