London to Brighton

[marker]

Hi has anyone watched the recent London to Brighton film if you have can you tell me if it has many scenes of Brighton in it

[sippog]

I wouldn't exactly describe it as a travelogue but, yes, amongst the shootings, razor slashing and beatings you do get to see bits of Brighton: for example, the seafront and the backstreets where one of the characters goes to pick up clients for sex.

[marker]

I wouldn't exactly describe it as a travelogue but, yes, amongst the shootings, razor slashing and beatings you do get to see bits of Brighton: for example, the seafront and the backstreets where one of the characters goes to pick up clients for sex.

yes I know all about sex in Brightons back streets

[DB7]

yes I know all about sex in Brightons back streets

I'm afraid to ask...



(Razor slashings sounds almost Brighton Rock-ish)

[marker]

I'm afraid to ask...



(Razor slashings sounds almost Brighton Rock-ish)

I lived for 10 years in Waterloo street which was at the time part of the red light area

razor slashings were quite common in the fiftys and sixtys a lot carried out by Big Jim Mores Brighton race track gang the whole thing was a complete education for me ps I used to do a bit of work for Big jim in fact he was a Pussy and always treated me well

[muddyfunster2003]

Just a heads up for anyone who has not seen this. I was expecting dreary but well shot realist film and instead what I got was a tense and gripping genre thriller. This is the kind of film we should be making more of in the UK. Writers and directors who are making genre based films about our culture should be applauded. Dead Mans Shoes is another example of this trend. More please.

[marker]

Just a heads up for anyone who has not seen this. I was expecting dreary but well shot realist film and instead what I got was a tense and gripping genre thriller. This is the kind of film we should be making more of in the UK. Writers and directors who are making genre based films about our culture should be applauded. Dead Mans Shoes is another example of this trend. More please.

I bought this when it came out and I totally agree with you that we could do with more like it, I thought Lorraine Stanleys performance was brill and all this praise coming from someone who does not like modern films.



cheers marker

[Fareham_Bee]

London to Brighton is a top film. One of the best Brit films I've seen in years, and that gangster is probably as scary as Ben Kingsley in Sexy Beast.

[DB7]

I may be talking out of my hat, Steve, but what I think muddyfunster2003 means is that he/she would like to see more Brit films that reflect our present culture/society made in specific genres .



Bats.

I wont spoil it for you Bats but it is heavily influenced by some older films. The main social issues of homelessness and prostitution run through many gritty crime thrillers.

[Harold Shand]

London to Brighton is a exceptional piece of film-making. I wouldn't go so far as to call it a genre piece but we do need to make more of these films.

What worries me is that with the extra funding coming mainly from lottery funds we will dilute the essence of a British film. We can see this already with a proliferation of quaint middle class working title type films like sixty six and the unreconstructed nonsense like Outlaw.

I would prefer the British film industry to make less films - providing they were in the league of London to Brighton rather than more in the league of the offensive The Great Ecstasy of Robert Carmichael.

[Leelondon]

I saw this film a week or so back and thought it was brilliant. Very tense film excellently edited together to tell a great story. some pretty horrific scenes too.

[autolycus]

I agree. One of the best British films of all time, brilliantly acted, and a tour de force by Georgia Groome.

[BruIrn]

I thought it was excellent but I wasn't too keen on the main gangster character. Seemed a bit too stereotypical (as was the scene when he's on the phone in the strip club) and unrealistic.

[Cheeky Bob]

I agree. One of the best British films of all time

A slight exaggeration (to put it mildly!), but on its own terms it's a very effective thriller that completely belies its budget and maintains a piledriver tension from beginning to end - so much so that it's easy to tune out the glaring plot implausibilities when you're actually watching it.



(Just to cite a couple, surely if you were turfed out of your house by a gunman, you'd go to the police pretty much instantly? And if you were trying to keep a low profile in Brighton, why would you hang out in precisely the spot that every visitor to the city will probably drive right past - namely, the entrance to the Palace Pier, right by a busy traffic junction?)

[1stas]

Excellent film.



Lorraine Stanley - brilliant - she was in the last Trial & Retribution.

[GRAEME]

I've just caught up with this one. I loved it! Brilliant acting all round - grim realism and yet poignant and moving character work along the way. A real edge-of-the-seat ending too!