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词条 How to Get Ahead in Advertising
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  1. Plot

  2. Cast

  3. Reception

  4. References

  5. External links

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| name = How to Get Ahead in Advertising
| image = How to Get Ahead in Advertising.jpg
| director = Bruce Robinson
| producer = David Wimbury
George Harrison
Denis O'Brien
Ray Cooper
| writer = Bruce Robinson
| cinematography = Peter Hannan
| starring = Richard E. Grant
Rachel Ward
Richard Wilson
| music = {{Plainlist|
  • David Dundas
  • Rick Wentworth

}}
| studio = HandMade Films
| distributor = Warner Bros. (USA)
Virgin Films (UK)
| released = {{Film date|1989|05|05|U.S.|df=y}}
| country = United Kingdom
| runtime = 94 min
| language = English/German
| budget =
| gross = $418,053
}}

How to Get Ahead in Advertising is a 1989 British film written and directed by Bruce Robinson and starring Richard E. Grant and Rachel Ward. The title is a pun and can be literally taken as "How to Get a Head in Advertising".

Plot

The movie is a farce about a mentally unstable advertising executive, Denis Dimbleby Bagley (played by Grant), who suffers a nervous breakdown while making an advert for pimple cream. Ward plays his long-suffering but sympathetic wife. Richard Wilson plays John Bristol, Bagley's boss.

Bagley has a crisis of conscience about the ethics of advertising, which leads to mania. He then develops a boil on his right shoulder that comes to life with a face and voice. The voice of the boil, although uncredited, is that of Bruce Robinson. The boil takes a cynical and unscrupulous view of the advertising profession in contrast to Bagley's new-found ethical concerns. Eventually, Bagley decides to have the boil removed in hospital but moments before he is taken into the operating room, the boil quickly grows into a replica of Bagley's head (only with a moustache) and covers Bagley's original head, asking doctors to lance it, which is done since nobody has noticed the switch from left to right nor the new moustache. Bagley, now with the boil head, moustache, and personality (the movie's third personification from Grant after the stressed executive and the raving lunatic) returns home to celebrate his wedding anniversary, with the original head merely resembling a boil on his left shoulder. The "boil" eventually withers but doesn't die, yet Bagley resumes his advertising career rejuvenated and ruthless, although without his wife, who decides to leave his new cruel persona.

Cast

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  • Richard E. Grant as Denis Dimbleby Bagley
  • Rachel Ward as Julia Bagley
  • Richard Wilson as John Bristol
  • Jacqueline Tong as Penny Wheelstock
  • John Shrapnel as Psychiatrist
  • Susan Wooldridge as Monica
  • Hugh Armstrong as Harry Wax
  • Mick Ford as Richard
  • Jacqueline Pearce as Maud
  • Christopher Simon as Waiter
  • Gino Melvazzi as Waiter
  • Victor Lucas as Tweedy Man
  • Dawn Keeler as Tweedy Woman
  • Kerryann White as Girl in Elevator
  • Vivienne McKone as Sullivan Bristol Receptionist
  • Donald Hoath as Businessman on Train
  • John Levitt as Businessman on Train
  • Gordon Gostelow as Priest
  • Pip Torrens as Jonathan
  • Tony Slattery as Basil
  • Rachel Fielding as Jennifer
  • Pauline Melville as Mrs. Wallace
  • Roddy Maude-Roxby as Dr. Gatty
  • Francesca Longrigg as Nurse
  • Tanveer Ghani as Hospital Doctor
  • Joanna Mays as Phillis Blokey
  • Sean Bean as Larry Frisk
  • Bruce Robinson as the Boil (voice) (uncredited)
{{div col end}}

Reception

As of November 2017, the film holds a rating of 57% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 14 reviews.[1]

In an interview with Jimmy Kimmel in 2019, Richard E. Grant said that Jim Carrey called him a genius for his work in the film.

References

1. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/how_to_get_ahead_in_advertising/|title=How to Get Ahead in Advertising|publisher=}}

External links

  • {{IMDb title|0097531}}
  • {{Amg movie|23554}}
  • {{Mojo title|howtogetaheadinadvertising}}
  • [https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/118-how-to-get-ahead-in-advertising How to Get Ahead in Advertising] an essay by Stanley Kauffmann at the Criterion Collection
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