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Post by Three Litre on Jul 9, 2019 7:16:17 GMT
Don't remember the show but I have watched this edition on yt. I was brought up in a religious household ( I isnae religious though ) & my dad considered the film blasphemous ( he hadn't seen it of course ), he once raised an objection to a copy of 'The Exorcist' borrowed from the local Rental Hire shop until he looked at the back cover & saw a credit for a Catholic priest, 'it can't be that bad then' he concluded.
Whilst I don't 100% agree with them, I can see the Bishop & Muggeridge's objection, at the end of the day the film is a satire about the life of Christ, albeit a mistaken Christ. Imagine a similar film about Muhammad, the Python's would still be in hiding.
Blimey, I wonder how many wrong impressions you get from films by looking at the sleeve or poster?!
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Post by Sparky on Jul 9, 2019 16:42:04 GMT
Don't remember the show but I have watched this edition on yt. I was brought up in a religious household ( I isnae religious though ) & my dad considered the film blasphemous ( he hadn't seen it of course ), he once raised an objection to a copy of 'The Exorcist' borrowed from the local Rental Hire shop until he looked at the back cover & saw a credit for a Catholic priest, 'it can't be that bad then' he concluded.
Whilst I don't 100% agree with them, I can see the Bishop & Muggeridge's objection, at the end of the day the film is a satire about the life of Christ, albeit a mistaken Christ. Imagine a similar film about Muhammad, the Python's would still be in hiding.
Blimey, I wonder how many wrong impressions you get from films by looking at the sleeve or poster?! And trailers too. I was sat in a Cinema with my brother some years back; a trailer for a sequal to a reasonably well known film came on. My brother spat his drink everywhere in amazement - and was puzzled as to how they (the film company) had managed to produce a trailer for this film - given the fact he was working on the Film, and shooting had only started 24hours before - and what they had shot 24hours earlier didn't bear any resemblance to what was on screen.
It transpired, that the material used in the trailer was stuff left out of the first film; and didn't even end up in the final film. Following this, there were numerous re-issues of trailers as shooting progressed - in the end there were 3, plus another 3 for the US market.
Funny old world eh?
On the "Friday Night Sat Morning" topic; the credits at the end show who wrote the Theme tune - the same people who did the music for all the Monty Python films.... Irony at it's best!!!
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Post by Arthur Pringle on Jul 9, 2019 16:58:39 GMT
Don't remember the show but I have watched this edition on yt. I was brought up in a religious household ( I isnae religious though ) & my dad considered the film blasphemous ( he hadn't seen it of course ), he once raised an objection to a copy of 'The Exorcist' borrowed from the local Rental Hire shop until he looked at the back cover & saw a credit for a Catholic priest, 'it can't be that bad then' he concluded.
Whilst I don't 100% agree with them, I can see the Bishop & Muggeridge's objection, at the end of the day the film is a satire about the life of Christ, albeit a mistaken Christ. Imagine a similar film about Muhammad, the Python's would still be in hiding.
Blimey, I wonder how many wrong impressions you get from films by looking at the sleeve or poster?! I know someone who thought he'd hired a video of 'The Stud', turned out to be a film about horses.
Going back to 'video nasties', videos of a Lee Marvin war film called 'The Big Red One' were confiscated by the police at the time of the panic. The authorities wrongly believed it to be a sex film.
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Post by Three Litre on Jul 9, 2019 18:30:11 GMT
Blimey, I wonder how many wrong impressions you get from films by looking at the sleeve or poster?! And trailers too. I was sat in a Cinema with my brother some years back; a trailer for a sequal to a reasonably well known film came on. My brother spat his drink everywhere in amazement - and was puzzled as to how they (the film company) had managed to produce a trailer for this film - given the fact he was working on the Film, and shooting had only started 24hours before - and what they had shot 24hours earlier didn't bear any resemblance to what was on screen.
It transpired, that the material used in the trailer was stuff left out of the first film; and didn't even end up in the final film. Following this, there were numerous re-issues of trailers as shooting progressed - in the end there were 3, plus another 3 for the US market.
Funny old world eh?
On the "Friday Night Sat Morning" topic; the credits at the end show who wrote the Theme tune - the same people who did the music for all the Monty Python films.... Irony at it's best!!!
Ah, a family of showmen eh Sparky! Don't tell me, your Dad ran a circus and your sister is a lion tamer! Mind you probably not as I think they banned that. You can use Labradors but it tends not to be as dramatic.
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Post by Sparky on Jul 10, 2019 6:32:38 GMT
Ah, a family of showmen eh Sparky! Don't tell me, your Dad ran a circus and your sister is a lion tamer! Not quite!
Mum worked for Natwest throughout the 70s, based in West London. Ironically, she has a tale about always bumping into the same Film Unit who were based nearby when going "out for lunch" - and often wondered what it was they were doing.
I often wonder who that bunch could have been - chances are, the only regular operating film unit, based in West London in the 70s would have been Euston Films.
Dad worked as a Roadie / Driver / Equipment lugger for numerous pre-madonna musicians & bands - that's where my first forays into the world of Lighting came from....
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Post by Sparky on Jul 10, 2019 6:33:24 GMT
Blimey, I wonder how many wrong impressions you get from films by looking at the sleeve or poster?! I know someone who thought he'd hired a video of 'The Stud', turned out to be a film about horses.
Wasn't he a friend of your Daughters Arthur?
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Post by Three Litre on Jul 10, 2019 7:33:59 GMT
I liked The Chinese Detective with David Yip, also Sweeney actor Derek Martin.
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Post by Dirty Epic on Jul 10, 2019 12:15:01 GMT
I know someone who thought he'd hired a video of 'The Stud', turned out to be a film about horses.
Wasn't he a friend of your Daughters Arthur?
...also had a bird with him called Peewee!
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Post by Sam Tyler on Jul 26, 2019 12:09:32 GMT
Prompted by the Glyn Houston obit thread, I remember watching "Keep It In The Family", a comedy about a cartoonist played by Robert Gillespie.
>>> IMDB: Keep It In The Family <<<
Fairly tame and easy viewing it had some laughs but the real added attraction was Sabina Franklyn.
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Post by Vienna on Jul 26, 2019 17:33:51 GMT
Yes she was tasty, Sam. I remember this series quite well at the time... I also saw Robert Gillespie at the Cinema Museum last year as he was appearing at The Professionals event. Stacy Dorning was the other daughter in the show. She was in the very first episode of Shoestring and her father Robert played Mr Geisler in the Sweeney episode 'Trojan Bus' Vi
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