Every once in a while a documentary comes along with a real-life story that absolutely knocks your socks off. Rarely, however, does the story in question take place on your very doorstep.
Posing as 5th year student Brandon Lee, MacKinnon fools all before him after claiming to be an orphan from Canada, who has arrived in the posh Glasgow suburb of Bearsden to live with his grandmother. He becomes dux of the class, befriends fellow students and even bags a starring role in the school's production of South Pacific.
With the man behind Brandon Lee unwilling to appear on camera, the film features Jono’s own audio recordings of Brian MacKinnon, brilliantly lip-synched by Alan Cumming, plus modern-day and archive interviews with several of Brandon Lee’s old teachers and classmates. JM: There’s the tale that everyone knows from the press, but our film uncovers more to the story. It’s difficult to talk about without spoiling the film, and I’d encourage people to talk about the film, but not reveal too much about what you find out, because the enjoyment is gone otherwise. It’s all about trying to get people to come and see it without giving too much away.
It was an all-Scottish animation company that we worked with, Wild Child, based in Stirling, and they were really amazing, they did a great job.JM: He was the Great Pretender. He was so skilled at creating this perfect academy schoolboy and that’s what impressed the teachers enough to let him get away with it, and then we were all sat back in awe of this star pupil.
JM: Yeah, it's like he's possessed - it was so fun. When we were doing the scenes with Lulu, who does one of the voices in the film and sings the title song, I had some of the film assembled for her to see, and she goes: 'Oh, that's fantastic, but did Alan have a cold that day? He sounds so different'. We managed to fool Lulu, so I know if we could do that then we were home and dry.
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