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Started watching The Irishman with DeNiro, but although many good actors in it, and story was moving forward etc; I just found the attempt by DeNiro to play himself 30 years younger very unreal, and rather distracting. He stands, walks and moves like an old man because he is an old man AND while, in reverse a young to old acting can be carried off, it is, obviously, as watching showed, much harder to do old portrayals of younger bods.
 
Rewatched Black Panther over the weekend. Such a bittersweet experience because Chadwick Boseman's joy and charisma really comes through in his performance but it’s very sad to think that he’d been diagnosed at or around that time. Incredible that he can put that behind him and channel his energy into such a fantastic performance. Clearly someone who added life to his years.
 
Saw Alan Parker's superlative (1978) Midnight Express again last night.Can't think of another film which has lasted so well over the last 50 years or so.Any takers?
 
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Tangled up in Blue said:
Saw Alan Parker's superlative (197() Midnight Express again last night.Can't think of another film which has lasted so well over the last 50 years or so.Any takers?
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It's a good film but it is way off the book version and portrays the Turkish rather unfairly.

The soundtrack is the best part.
 
Tangled up in Blue said:
Saw Alan Parker's superlative (197() Midnight Express again last night.Can't think of another film which has lasted so well over the last 50 years or so.Any takers?
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Yes great film. The first time I watched that was aged 17 on one of those 24hr coach dashes from London to the South of France.

One woman tried to stop it being played as she didn't think it suitable viewing.....She was out voted by the rest of us and sulked all the way.
 
rigsby said:
Yes great film. The first time I watched that was aged 17 on one of those 24hr coach dashes from London to the South of France.

One woman tried to stop it being played as she didn't think it suitable viewing.....She was out voted by the rest of us and sulked all the way.
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Had a look at the extras last night too.Alan Parker,Oliver Stone and the producer directly addressed the "so called" racism in the film.Granted there were no "good" Turks in the film (nor in the book either).AP said that if he were making the film today (in an interview recorded 10 years ago) he'd include a "good". Turk character.That's how Hollwood works but this was an Indy movie and all the better for it,IMO.At the time the film was criticised in France,didn't do well in Germany (where there's a large Turkish population, of course).One cinema showing it was even burned down in Holland.
 
Mad Cyril said:
It's a good film but it is way off the book version and portrays the Turkish rather unfairly.

The soundtrack is the best part.
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It's only way off the book version in the sense that the island escape (originally in Stone's script) was dropped for dramatic reasons.See above for comments about racism towards Turks.

The soundtrack was indeed excellent and was the first soundrack to win an award for electronic music,the year before Vangelis did so for Charriots of Fire.
 
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Had a look at the extras last night too.Alan Parker,Oliver Stone and the producer directly addressed the "so called" racism in the film.Granted there were no "good" Turks in the film (nor in the book either).AP said that if he were making the film today (in an interview recorded 10 years ago) he'd include a "good". Turk character.That's how Hollwood works but this was an Indy movie and all the better for it,IMO.At the time the film was criticised in France,didn't do well in Germany (where there's a large Turkish population, of course).One cinema showing it was even burned down in Holland.
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It was 1983. No one gave a hoot about how the Turks were portrayed. The woman was a self appointed Mary Whitehouse type. " I have watched this filth but you shouldn't be allowed"
 
rigsby said:
It was 1983. No one gave a hoot about how the Turks were portrayed. The woman was a self appointed Mary Whitehouse type. " I have watched this filth but you shouldn't be allowed"
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I certainly don't remember any racism charge being levelled at the film back in 1978 when it was released ,The political correctness came later.
 
Saw Che: Part Two again last night.Meticulously researched and beautifully acted by Benico Del Toro..Think I preferred Part 1.Always been a sucker for a happy ending. :Winking:
 
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