'The Office' - 'The Style'

The Style

In a series of behind the scenes videos made just for the web the cast of The Office and fans discuss the style & look that made the show so distinctive. Ricky reveals that they threw away jokes in order to strike exactly the right tone: "if drama is real life with the boring bits taken out…well we went and put them back in again". And Martin Freeman explains why he borrowed from Oliver Hardy in order to get the facial expressions for Tim.

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The Office

Published:

25th August 2009

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Performer: Ricky Gervais
Performer: Stephen Merchant
Performer: Richard Curtis
Performer: David Baddiel
Performer: Matthew Perry
Performer: Lucy Davis
Performer: Martin Freeman
Performer: Mackenzie Crook

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Hellbez
2nd September 2009 - 12:40

'People like us' is no where near as subtle as 'The Office'. The Office is filmed and performed in a way that depicts an admittedly strange, but nonetheless real working environment. 'People Like Us' was a fantastically funny programme, but one which centred around the absurd gibberish, and nonsensical questions of the actual interviewer/documentary maker.

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Stuart
26th August 2009 - 18:14

Whilst the Office is great, to say "we were the first to have that level realism" is just totally wrong.

The incredible People Like Us was on TV quite a bit before the first series of The Office and whilst not only being before was miles better and far more original and clever and subtle.

Plus, it's a bit early to be feeding certain egos isn't it?

And also, the US version has far exceeded the brilliance of the original now, with a character who doesn't need to resort to latent racism et al for depth.

I hope that these points will be highlighted throughout these docs.

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