― the confusing situation Enrique currently endures (Enrique), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 19:40 (eighteen years ago) link
in 1983-4?
i'm not an expert but O RLY?
― the confusing situation Enrique currently endures (Enrique), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 19:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― the confusing situation Enrique currently endures (Enrique), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 19:49 (eighteen years ago) link
also, none of the characters in it would listen to The Passions.
― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 20:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 20:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 20:23 (eighteen years ago) link
Presumably she did the cutting before the Stranglers track came on.
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Thursday, 18 May 2006 06:36 (eighteen years ago) link
I was watching the footie so missed this. I liked the book a lot but agree that it doesn't seem filmable. Mind you, they didn't do too badly with The Rotters' Club so obviously I'll need to catch up with this.
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 18 May 2006 07:08 (eighteen years ago) link
self-aware pretentiousness is foreign to contemporary movies?!?!?!
lubitsch was a fine comedy director but he didn't have the political cojones for this.
― the confusing situation Enrique currently endures (Enrique), Thursday, 18 May 2006 07:23 (eighteen years ago) link
I switched back to the football just in time for the goals.
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Thursday, 18 May 2006 07:33 (eighteen years ago) link
Lots of "the bad guys breathe smoke on people and cuss at black men that stand close to white girls" type characterisations.
That young lad might listen to the Passions, after hearing "german film star" on the radio.
Oh and Kaet to thread, natch.. (Unless she was w*****g the f******)
― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 18 May 2006 07:34 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mikey G (Mikey G), Thursday, 18 May 2006 07:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― suzy (suzy), Thursday, 18 May 2006 08:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 18 May 2006 08:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― suzy (suzy), Thursday, 18 May 2006 08:33 (eighteen years ago) link
I don't know the Passions: they must be the band that I did not recognize that sounded quite good.
'Blue Monday' on the soundtrack was a mistake. Unnecessary, intrusive and just too leaden and overfamiliar an effect.
I should not get too caught up in discussing the songs, though. My favourite thing in it was Lord Kessler saying that Henry James's secret might be winkled out.
― the bellefox (the pinefox), Thursday, 18 May 2006 12:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 08:05 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.bbc.co.uk/drama/lineofbeauty/photogallery_gerald_fedden2.shtml
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 08:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 08:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 08:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 08:43 (eighteen years ago) link
In my view they should have dispensed with music altogether.
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 08:48 (eighteen years ago) link
― M Carty (mj_c), Friday, 26 May 2006 12:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Friday, 26 May 2006 12:35 (eighteen years ago) link
x-post with Jed.
― Anna (Anna), Friday, 26 May 2006 12:35 (eighteen years ago) link
Will order the book off Amazon soon.
― Hal! Jordan! HAL! JORDAN! (Barima), Friday, 26 May 2006 12:40 (eighteen years ago) link
Seemed rather shallow and rather too many of the characters were cartoon sketches, but I suppose that has more to do with the brevity of the adaptation. A bit heavy handed on the old "ooh, posh people are BAD, they are racist, homophobic and have affairs" like that doesn't happen in the lower classes. But it's kind of a classic genre, isn't it, the "morality play about the ill advised nature of the middle class mixing with their social 'betters' and finding them not better at all" - goes back to the 19th Century. There was something very 19th Century about it, despite the 80s soundtrack.
I mean, why *was* he so in love with Leo? That was never expanded upon, seemed more like lust to me. And why were the Feddens so keen to adopt him in the first place? Replacement for their son? As a minder for their mad daughter? (a lot of hysterical "ooh, she's MAD because she comes from such a terrible background" handwriting, even though in the latter half of the film, she's clearly on Lithium, which indicates the rather more genetic disorder of Manic Depression.)
The Thatcher bit was hilarious, though. Not entirely necessary and a bit like Tory fan fiction, but very very funny.
― We Are The Village Green Psychiatric Society (kate), Friday, 29 September 2006 08:13 (seventeen years ago) link