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Post by Deleted on Apr 26, 2019 12:55:26 GMT
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Post by Reactionary Rage on May 7, 2019 20:04:18 GMT
You forget how funny it is. I saw it again at the cinema recently and was chuckling throughout. The kid is fantastic. Has one of those "old" faces.
Oh I fancied him! Old rubber lips!
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Post by lokie on Jun 6, 2019 11:04:11 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jun 6, 2019 11:42:48 GMT
You forget how funny it is. I saw it again at the cinema recently and was chuckling throughout. The kid is fantastic. Has one of those "old" faces. Oh I fancied him! Old rubber lips! Yeah absolutely. I find quite a lot of the lines funny ..Chas trying to waffle when he's trying to get the room "I'm a juggler..I need a bohemian atmosphere", describing the inhabitants of the house to his mate "It's a right piss-hole. Long hair, beatniks, druggists, free love, foreigners." It's difficult to know how much of the humour was intended. It's an aspect of the film that tends to be overlooked, but it's quite an important part of its appeal I think. After all I'm sure it wasn't its Borgesian exploration of identity that made it Sean Ryder's favourite film! |
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Jun 6, 2019 15:40:24 GMT
I honestly don't know how much was intentional. It's partly the exaggerated tone of the film and the performances of the gangsters who obviously weren't all professional actors. Harry Flowers, say, and fucking Dennis (who was an actor I know)! They deliver lines in a funny/odd way. There's actually a knowing campness that makes it funny I think. Amusing.
Plus it's very quotable so naturally some lines are catchphrases...."we've been courteous.." and so on. You end up quoting them along with the film and chuckling away.
It really entertains and it's the above combined with the artier, experimental elements that make it so potent for me. It's an uncanny mix.
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Jun 6, 2019 15:56:34 GMT
43secs
BASTARD! Foreign female!
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Jun 6, 2019 15:57:19 GMT
I mean how are the kids gonna grow up?
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Jun 6, 2019 16:00:17 GMT
You know what it also is? Seriously, it's the London accents.
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Jun 6, 2019 16:01:05 GMT
He waited 15 minutes you slag
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Post by Deleted on Jun 6, 2019 16:30:20 GMT
I don't think I'm going to let you stay in the film business.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 6, 2019 16:33:22 GMT
I mean how are the kids gonna grow up? John Bindon...who of course was a right villain in real life. |
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Jun 6, 2019 16:46:33 GMT
I mean how are the kids gonna grow up? John Bindon...who of course was a right villain in real life. With a huge cock apparently. I remember a story about him hacking somebody's arm off. What a film! |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 6, 2019 16:51:13 GMT
John Bindon...who of course was a right villain in real life. With a huge cock apparently. I remember a story about him hacking somebody's arm off. What a film! You gotta feel sorry for the bloke that picked a fight with him, Cole, Grant and Bonham. Not a wise move! |
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Jun 6, 2019 17:22:13 GMT
Sod that!
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Post by bungo the mungo on Jun 6, 2019 17:55:13 GMT
John Bindon...who of course was a right villain in real life. With a huge cock apparently. apparently, his party trick was balancing a pint on it. |
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