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Posted at September 25, 2016, 5:49 am: Withnail & I (1987, Bruce Robinson) I figured that I’d get the ball rolling with our little chat about weird thumbs, here hare heres and Camberwell carrots. Withnail & I is a film that, from a personal point of view, I find hard to review totally objectively, such has it’s effect been on my life (there, I’ve said it and might even say precisely why later), but I’ll have a go. London 1969. One unemployed and one unemployable actor try to clear their heads by going on holiday to a cottage in the Lake District owned by Withnail’s uncle Monty - with tragic-comic consequences. I must have seen Withnail for the first time around 1990 and it quickly became the second video in my collection (after the original version of Blade Runner). It charmed me: Humour, pathos, social comment, drink, lumpy cigarettes and memorable quotes….oh so many memorable quotes. It’s little wonder that Withnail is such a popular movie with the student population as the squalour that our two protagonists escape from is familiar to anyone who’s ever been shafted by an unscrupulous Landlord. The film shouldn’t work when you look at it’s component parts: 1. Bruce Robinson was a first time director (he’d previously written the screenplay for The Killing Fields (1984)) and announced, first day on set, that he didn’t know what he was doing so any help would be appreciated. 2. Paul McGann and Richard E Grant were both starring in their first features. To make matters worse, Grant was teetotal so transforming himself into the Hedonistic Withnail meant assuming a method of almost DeNiro-like intensity. 3. The producer, Denis O’Brien, had been behind Life Of Brian and was expecting similar Pythonesque surrealism. He was on Robinson’s case from the beginning and almost shut the production down. But work it does, and how…. I’d love to discuss individual scenes, thoughts in more depth when a few more people have seen the movie however. Did you know that the Uncle Monty/Marwood scenes were directly based on Robinson’s own experiences, as a young actor, with famed Italian director Franco Zeffirelli? Free to those who can afford it, very expensive to those who can’t….. Original of the message was taken from http://www.movieforums.com/community/ Replies:I bought this film about 2 years ago, blind, on the advice of a friend...Quote: Originally Posted by SamsoniteDelilah ... Quote: Originally Posted by Tacitus Grant is ... Quote: Originally Posted by SamsoniteDelilah ... Quote: Originally Posted by SamsoniteDelilah ... The Mcguffin!!! This is shipping to me today i think, or maybe tomor... My copy of the DVD is a shining example of how barebones an R4 DVD rel... Quote: Originally Posted by Iroquois My copy ... Out of curiosity, has anyone here ever attempted the infamous drinking... I remember reading of one, but not what it was. Quote: Originally Posted by Iroquois Out of c... Other Topics of Movie Forums:Tipping at Starbucks?Loose Change I love Jack, I'm not lion...(The Wild) Team America World Police Utopian Movies Tom Yum Goong trailer (starring Tony Ja) What's Up? 1st look at Bourne 3 The Departed The Freebie Thread What Is The Most Disturbing Film? Please recommend a book The Movie Club Selection Poll Do you ever feel like you are living vicariously through the movies you watch? Martin Scorsese's The Departed Filmmaker Gordon Parks Dies at 93 So Is Morris Dees Going Through a Divorce or Something? Stormfront TROUBLE IN PARADISE R.I.P. Don Knotts You Where Born When?! Which GAME would you like to see as a MOVIE! Blood Types Halloween 9 Madonna looks like.. WICKED: The Untold Story of the Witches of Oz. Youth of the Beast Slither on DVD October 24th - Complete Details Best of 2006 so far... Omen 6 Minute Preview Pulse Your Top 10 Favorite Video Games The Increase in foreign films Lady in the Water Name a movie in that location: Character Actor Vincent Schiavelli Dies Most interesting actor to watch onscreen 7 days - Insert or Replace |