I don't know why I thought you hadn't watched this one before giving up on the movies. I must of missed it somehow. Thanks so much for doing it. Glad you liked it. It's such an excellent film. I think hidden Gem is the perfect description.
Gyle
2023-01-05 00:06:24 +0000 UTC
First time watching this, no idea how it passed me by. Riveting film from start to finish, and I love the way that Winstone and Kingsley were cast against type; Winstone usually the hard man on screen, digging deep to portray a gangster grown meek and mellow with age; Kingsley who got famous playing Mahatma Gandhi, effortlessly transforming into a bullying psychopath who's all the more sinister and believable for his occasional thuggish wit.
There's so much going on with the characters beneath the surface that we only get a glimpse of. Was Don's fling with Jackie (complete with attempted fingers up the bum) consensual and later regretted by her, or does her total hostility to him at dinner suggest some level of coercion, even rape? Teddy lets Gary live at the end because Don's death is just an open door for him, and Gary (unlike the banker whom Teddy executes to demonstrate how disposable players get dealt with) could still be useful as a pawn in future, but will Gary now make plans to deal with Teddy paying a future visit, following in Don's footsteps?
Ultimately, it all comes down to the boulder rolling down the hill and missing Gary by inches. Once you've chosen that criminal life, the boulders will never stop rolling at you, and you can only hope that the ones you don't see coming will miss you by fate or fortune.
Ian Richards
2022-09-22 05:06:26 +0000 UTC
she was scalded as a baby with boiling soup
girlsdrinkfeck
2022-09-21 11:18:12 +0000 UTC
Oh no that is terrible. Good thing she was ok after all of that.
After Work Reactions
2022-09-20 11:04:09 +0000 UTC
Interesting 🤔 I have never heard that.
After Work Reactions
2022-09-20 11:03:09 +0000 UTC
Thanks bud I'll check that out 😁
After Work Reactions
2022-09-20 11:02:27 +0000 UTC
This is a really good interview with Ben Kingsley from 2001: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmVNPllla-g
Keith Pratt
2022-09-20 03:25:18 +0000 UTC
Having a villa in Spain has always been a typical trait of criminals in England, because Spain don't extradite criminals back to England unlike other European countries. Plus it's hot. Popular holiday destination. (That may not be the case anymore though, I'm not sure.)
Nell Sun
2022-09-19 20:02:40 +0000 UTC
The actress with the burns on her arm, that you questioned, she’s called Amanda Redman and those are real burns that happened when she was 18 months old. She managed to pull an old fashion cauldron of Turkey and vegetable soup over herself apparently 😳. 90% of her body was burnt and due to the trauma, was pronounced clinically dead at the Hospital. Luckily she wasn’t and spent the first 5 years of her life in Hospital having skin grafts.
Gary Tamblyn
2022-09-19 17:26:59 +0000 UTC
The weird thing abut this film is that a chunk of the people who watch it come away thinking Don is really cool, and a kind of Rorschach-esque antihero, as opposed to a pathetic, empty, small little man. If you make a film with any kind of subtlety there'll always be a part of your audience that comes away missing the point big time.
Saul
2022-09-19 15:53:19 +0000 UTC
Grew up in Bow in the east end. Just off Mile End road. Everyone talked like that. 'C**t' became 'cant', F**king became 'fackin'.
Years later there was an advertising campaign on TV and online about an ostrich pushing itself 'beyond its limits' and learning how to fly. Its tagline was something about 'doing what you believe you can't do' and it was hashtagged as 'dowhatyoucant'. This gave me a lot of silly, private enjoyment every time I saw it flash up on screen.
"Your job is to rob the bank in less than ninety seconds" - 'do WHAT you cant??"
Saul
2022-09-19 14:02:34 +0000 UTC
F**k me sideways, what a film this is. BK in this would eat Joe Pesci in Goodfellas for breakfast. It's got to be the best London gangster film ever made surely?
Saul
2022-09-19 13:54:08 +0000 UTC
Lol the hairstyle pill scene was hilarious 🤣🤣 I am glad to hear you enjoyed it. This was certainly a hidden gem of a film.
After Work Reactions
2022-09-19 10:57:48 +0000 UTC
Lol thanks bud 👍
After Work Reactions
2022-09-19 10:56:56 +0000 UTC
Told you Josh. The most intimidating villain, pretty much, in cinema.
Chris
2022-09-19 08:39:42 +0000 UTC
Yeah its a Cockney accent. London east end. Its the go to accent for the London gangster in movies. Even other English people have difficulty understanding it at times 😅 it uses a lot of rhyming slang hence Cockney rhyming slang
Danny
2022-09-19 04:49:34 +0000 UTC
That thing at the end about the pill you take to keep the same hairstyle and it being tested on monkeys who were given Beatles hairdos and they're happy with it etc sounds just like a story Karl would have come up with for his 'Monkey News' segment 😂
First time watching this film and I enjoyed it a lot. Don made everything so uncomfortable the whole time, Ben Kingsley did a great job.