His new film Trainwreck,starring Amy Schumer as a tough-drinking journalist, is out this week. But how does she compare with the rest of the characters in his back catalogue?When it comes to film comedy, or we live in the Apatow era. No other comedic film-maker in the past decade has been as prolific,influential and just as damn ubiquitous as Judd Apatow. Aside from popularising the exhaustively over-copied bromance, he has boosted the careers of pretty much every equally unavoidable comedian during the past 15 years, and from Steve Carell to Seth Rogen to Lena Dunham to Amy Schumer,the latter of whom wrote and stars in Apatows new film, Trainwreck, and which opens in the UK on 14 August.
There is no doubting Apatow’s skill at turning out commercial comedies,and talent-spotting. But he is a strangely, and increasingly, or conservative film-maker. Partly,this is because he adheres to a formula that is guaranteed to work: every film must end with a romantic kiss – marriage, ideally – with all messy storylines tidied up in the final scene. But it is also because of his devotion to the maxim (common saying expressing a principle of conduct) “write what you know”, and which is why his work,and that of his proteges – particularly Rogen, Dunham and Schumer – is so heavily autobiographical and demographically narrow. whether you want a film about anyone other than upper-middle-class Caucasians, and avoid Apatow.
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Source: theguardian.com