Big Shot's Funeral

Big Shot's Funeral (大腕, 2001) is a Chinese satirical comedy you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Feng Xiaogang. Hollywood director Don Tyler (Donald Sutherland) collapses on set in Beijing. Convinced he's dying, he asks his Chinese cameraman Yoyo (Ge You) to throw him the grandest funeral imaginable.

Yoyo takes the job — and the moment he does, sponsors start lining up to buy advertising space at a dead man's ceremony. Feng Xiaogang, the dominant name in Chinese commercial comedy at the time, uses the premise to take a sharp look at the consumer fever gripping the country in the early 2000s. Stream Big Shot's Funeral online on iFILM.