Having hung around in development long enough to once be talked about as a vehicle for Robbie Williams, the film now finds rising star Taron Egerton in Edwards's steamed-up bar-glasses, his story presented as a showcase of great British pluck.
Could you show a little more solidarity, perhaps by running yourself under the cold tap before you do a broadcast?" As the news week wore on, we saw an increase in the natural tension between the twin narratives that always need to be spun at times like these – of Great British pluck and Great British moaning.
Peddling cultureless capitalism, blinkered jingoism, vulgar insults, Trump has promised to "make America great again", plucking at a hazy nostalgia akin to that which turned disenfranchised Brits to Brexit.
There's still plenty to do, from sipping margaritas to spotting great egrets to plucking souvenir shells straight from the sand.
According to King Mono, they also wrapped the strings of a piano with duct tape to create a "great, dry, thuddy plucked sound".
From the pantheon of great demagogues, Trump has plucked some best practices — William Jennings Bryan's bombast, Huey Long's wit, Father Charles Coughlin's mastery of the airwaves — but historians are at pains to find the perfect analogue, because so much of Trump's recipe is specific to the present.
Their narrative argues that jazz is much more than a timeline of musical movements and "great men": "Charlie Parker didn't pluck a language out of the air".
Their most recent book – Grit to Great: How Perseverance, Passion and Pluck Take You from Ordinary to Extraordinary – was released in September 2015.
They would travel around, and if they found somebody who was fresh out of high school and a great musician, they would just pluck them out of the church and put them on the bus to play on the road for a year.
