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Topic: Everyone get Naked |
Twig the Wonder Kid
Operative |
posted November 21, 1999 11:48 PM
 
For anyone who hasn't yet had the pleasure, I'll give you three
reasons why Barbelithians should check out 'Naked'.
1. It's a Mike Leigh film, one of only two directors (the other
being Ken Loach) who come anywhere near to capturing contemporary
Britain on celluloid.
2. David Thewlis as 'Johnny' is the ultimate anti-hero. Bugger
Spider Jerusalem, Begbie and everyone in between, Thewlis manages to
get audience sympathy behind a character who we see commiting a
back-alley rape in the first scene.
3. Paranoid apocalyptic rantings.
There's one scene in particular where Johnny intrudes on a
security guard (who's guarding 'space') and launches into this
intense, semi-improvised rant on the end of the world, tying the
Book of Revelations into consumerism and the human race's evolution
into beings of pure thought. He predicts the end of the world as
happening in August 1999.
"It's the barcode, the ubiquitous barcode, which you'll find on
every bog roll, every packet of johnies and every poxy pork pie.
Every barcode is divided into three parts by two markers and those
three markers are always represented by the number 6: 666"
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70sman
Operative |
posted November 22, 1999 08:55 AM
The same theory as Robert Rankins "East of Ealing".
And, Im sure its a good movie , but do you think the reason
contemporary Britain is so difficult to capture is that filmmakers
consistantly use phrases like "poxy porkpie".
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ianjones
Myrmidon |
posted November 29, 1999 07:51 PM
I'm still trying. My video shop does not have it, nor do any mates
I've asked thus far and the Library copy has disappeared.
I like to imagine some pornadile borrowing it then burning it in
frustration.
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panacynic
Initiate |
posted November 30, 1999 01:00 AM
It's been on Channel 4 loads, so it's bound to turn up on Film 4, if
it hasn't already. Bloody good film though, but what's happened to
David Thewlis lately. Gone into hiding after all those dodgy
Hollywood films?
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Loz
Operative |
posted December 01, 1999 07:56 PM
Last I heard of him he'd done a film in Ireland which my memory
insists is called 'Buggering Jack' which I'm almost certain is
untrue.
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Citizen Smith
Operative |
posted December 01, 1999 07:59 PM
I think you mean "Divorcing Jack", unless the one you're remembering
didn't get a cinematic release...
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Sandfarmer
Operative |
posted December 02, 1999 12:43 AM
I'd heard of that a while back but have not stumbled upon it in any
of the video shops here in the states.
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