Good poetry in a way gives concentrated appreciation, it evokes much in the reader, pleasure being just a part of it. In a way - helped with years of knowledge of it; a good film - one which you recognise and partially relate to - can bring the same kind of concentrated enjoyment (with or without laughs) though I do still laugh at it.
Seems a bit Pseuds Corner but there are times it's worth getting out of cynical cool comfort.
I do know Robinson only considered Griffiths for the Uncle Monty role after seeing him with his 30s-style coiffed hair in A Private Function, he was only 39 when he played the part of Monty. He was also meant to attack Marwood fully naked but Griffiths persuaded Robinson to have the scene changed:
“The original script calls for Monty to be dressed in nothing but his make-up. And probably wearing a watch. And a broad grin. And I said: "I can’t do it. I am sorry, but I just cannot cope with being naked full frontal on camera, because I’m so appalled at my body, I just think everybody else, well, they will be entertained, but I would feel terrible about it. Let me come in with a fantastic dressing gown, and I will get very close up and personal with Paul, and I will push him back around the room into the corner. I will then flash the dressing gown open for him, and he will look down and be so horrified by what he’s looking at,he would probably want to die on the spot. I promise you that would be a better pay off than if the audience will see me wandering around looking like Colonel Blimp fresh out of bath.”
The American version of Withnail and I has been given the green light, it saddens me to hear. Robert Downey Jr is playing Withnail, Sam Rockwell is playing Marwood, and (most surprisingly perhaps) John Goodman is cast as Uncle Monty.
I thought they'd leave this one alone - just this one. For us. But no.
We've always got the option of ignoring it completely, I suppose.
I will. Bad casting, for one. Both are too old. 20 years ago for Downey and Rockwell, maybe.
Some bald geezer. Reckons you owe him two hundred and sixty-six quid back rent. I told him there's was no question of paying rent on a property cut with rodents. He takes exception to this. Starts coming on really bald with me.
The American version of Withnail and I has been given the green light, it saddens me to hear. Robert Downey Jr is playing Withnail, Sam Rockwell is playing Marwood, and (most surprisingly perhaps) John Goodman is cast as Uncle Monty.
I thought they'd leave this one alone - just this one. For us. But no.
We've always got the option of ignoring it completely, I suppose.
A good friend and I saw the original in the theaters and we loved it. I told him about the remake. He wasn't happy.