{"id":6096,"date":"2011-06-05T20:22:14","date_gmt":"2011-06-05T20:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=6096"},"modified":"2011-06-05T20:22:14","modified_gmt":"2011-06-05T20:22:14","slug":"i-love-you-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=6096","title":{"rendered":"I Love You, Man"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"RushI’m not sure about this, but the number of people who didn’t “get” the end-of-show film in all those Rush gigs seems to be rather high.<\/p>\n

It all comes about from the 2009 film, I Love You, Man<\/a> – a comedy about two guys who become friends and discover that they are both Rush fanatics. Rush was persuaded to appear in the film – playing “Limelight” on stage - and the two characters ended up on that end-of-show film as a return favour.<\/p>\n

The film has been shown regularly on Sky TV for the last couple of months.<\/p>\n

The IMDb description only mentions Rush once in the synopsis, though they are listed as cast members (each as “Himself – Rush”), although the band is quite a significant part of the plot, especially early on.<\/p>\n

The Wikipedia entry<\/a> is more informative (assuming it is correct – you can never be 100% certain with Wikipedia):<\/p>\n

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Rush was approached by Hamburg [the director], who is a fan, to appear in the film. Even though the band does not normally perform in movies, they decided to do it. The shooting schedule was tough because there was a one day window between two of their concerts on tour. The band later said the whole experience was fun. Hamburg felt that “once Rush got that I wasn’t poking fun at them, that I’m genuinely a fan and the main characters of the movie are fans and it’s kind of a loving tribute to them, I think that’s when they came on board.” Subsequently, both Rudd and Segel appeared in character as Peter and Sydney alongside the members of Rush in a short video which closes the band’s 2010 Time Machine Tour shows. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The film is actually quite good, and it was reasonably successful at the US box office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m not sure about this, but the number of people who didn’t “get” the end-of-show film in all those Rush gigs seems to be rather high. It all comes about from the 2009 film, I Love You, Man – a comedy about two guys who become friends and discover that they are both Rush fanatics. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-related"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t