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Post by fonz on Oct 10, 2023 18:50:46 GMT
Our taxi driver insists on doing a “yuergh yuergh yuerngh!” Savile thing every time we book him.
Plain sight.
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Post by Stacy Heydon on Oct 13, 2023 9:01:23 GMT
It has potential, but I'm a bit wary of "white man redemption" stories, which this appears to be. I'll give it a watch, though, to see what's up. i read the book years ago. It wasn't really a 'white man redemption' story, it's just a detective who pursued things when others wouldn't. It's a very powerful book. Looking forward to this one.
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Post by fonz on Oct 14, 2023 15:06:05 GMT
I read it a while ago too. I don’t remember too much of a detective story. But I do remember it as fascinating story of how a bunch of Native Americans got rich quick and then lost it via mainly nefarious means. The detective aspect didn’t make an impression but the wider tale was remarkable in that it was all relatively recent and USA!, but could have been one of those stories about the exploitation of Africa by the colonialists. I’m looking forward to the movie
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Post by Mr. FOLLARD on Oct 19, 2023 18:44:15 GMT
Not sure why - not really because I find it distasteful or anything like that - but I just can't be arsed with it. I don't even think Coogan's that good in it. He's OK. I heard he had to cancel some recent book-signing sessions because he was worried about a backlash to this. Isn't that ridiculous?
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Oct 19, 2023 19:22:02 GMT
^ I watched a couple of them but found it pretty boring and a bit tame. A bit whitewashed. The guy was a monster and I wasn't expecting scenes of Savile down the morgue but it felt rather quaint and restrained.
As if the Beeb were reluctant to really go certain places.
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Post by Mr. FOLLARD on Oct 19, 2023 19:34:46 GMT
Yeah, you did get the sense that they were holding back a bit. In some scenes, at least. I don't really know why the thing was made, really.
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Oct 20, 2023 11:47:27 GMT
To make themselves feel better about the whole awful affair. See, we made a drama about it?
Meh.
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Post by Charlie O. on Mar 29, 2024 5:43:52 GMT
I'm interested, but... Scarlett Johansson??
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Post by Sneelock on Mar 29, 2024 22:05:58 GMT
you were expecting maybe Kim Kardashian?
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Post by adamcoan on Mar 30, 2024 6:51:06 GMT
No one expects the Kim Kardashian.
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Post by Stacy Heydon on Mar 30, 2024 15:09:32 GMT
I would expect whoever narrated her voice to have a European accent. She was a quintessentially European figure, it makes no sense to have her narration American accented.
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Post by Charlie O. on Mar 30, 2024 17:02:14 GMT
exactly.
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Post by harrylemon on Mar 30, 2024 20:56:31 GMT
Maybe an actor doing an accent might be an idea.
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