Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
2004
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This article should be renamed to Mediocre American Man (film series) to bring it inline with the naming convention pertaining to film series. Let's discuss. - LA @ 10:42, 1 November 2007 (UTC) The article for the third movie has been deleted three times due to a lack of sources, and an unsigned comment above seems to agree with this.
1. Reply. Share. gifmaker777. • 9 yr. ago • Edited 9 yr. ago. I think Anchorman 2 is hilarious, it's messy and flawed but I just love it. For ME it's better than the first. Will's 3 mediocre movies, I'd say are Kickig & Screaming, Semi-Pro, and Blades of Glory. 1.
Dec 6, 2013 · After the pair moved on to Talladega Nights and Step Brothers (the next instalments of what they call their “mediocre American man trilogy”), they tossed around the idea of a follow-up,...
Oct 15, 2019 · Wake Up, Ron Burgundy: The Lost Movie is the 2004 counterpart film to the film Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, which was also released in the same year. Directed by Adam McKay and written by McKay and Will Ferrell, it stars Ferrell, Christina Applegate, David Koechner, Steve Carell, and Paul Rudd. Wake Up, Ron Burgundy: The Lost Movie.
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Adam McKay has the possibly complete, possibly incomplete Mediocre American Man trilogy (aka the Colon trilogy), in which Will Ferrell plays a mediocre American man with the initials R.B. (Anchorman, Talladega Nights, and maybe/maybe not Anchorman 2). More information on the parallels here.
Sep 4, 2010 · Anchorman 's placement as the first in the incomplete "Mediocre American Man" trilogy was fortuitously timed to the celebration of mediocrity and incompetence that defined the zeitgeist of the Bush administration, and Bush provided Ferrell with his biggest break on Saturday Night Live.
Jul 28, 2012 · This impression of political, as well as grammatical, incoherence that the guys at MUBI discuss is probably quite intentional. (See David Bordwell on the strategic ambiguity of politics in Hollywood movies, and Zach Campbell's post on "Diffuse Cinema" and "'reversible films," blockbuster cinema that seeks to accommodate politicized readings by accommodating even contradictory ideologies.")
