From what Charlie has said in a handful of interviews, and what we can gather from the scant plot info available so far, his upcoming Frank or Francis film comes partly from the idea that lots of people get really worked up about insignificant stuff, these days. Such as movies. (Okay, movies aren't insignificant, but sitting through a crap film isn't the same as losing a limb or choking to death on a pickle, y'know?) Check the more popular web forums and the comments on popular blogs, and you'll usually see a lot of people getting SUPER ANGRY and ABUSIVE with each other. So I thought it was worth linking to a new article on the Guradian's website: "How the internet created an age of rage."
The worldwide web has made critics of us all. But with commenters able to hide behind a cloak of anonymity, the blog and chatroom have become forums for hatred and bile
For a while after his first TV series was broadcast in 2009, comedian Stewart Lee was in the habit of collecting and filing some of the comments that people made about him on web pages and social media sites. He did a 10-minute Google trawl most days for about six months and the resultant collected observations soon ran to dozens of pages. If you read those comments now as a cumulative narrative, you begin to fear for Stewart Lee. A good third of the posts fantasised about violence being done to the comic, most of the rest could barely contain the extent of their loathing. (Source)
Chill out and eat a banana, people.


