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Old 12-06-2007, 05:12 PM
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My job is the same if you dont laugh you would cry...
I think the job you do is great.

I find it difficult to cry... so my only option is to laugh. Otherwise I'd walk around with a blank expression on my face.

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Old 12-06-2007, 05:32 PM
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I think the job you do is great.

I find it difficult to cry... so my only option is to laugh. Otherwise I'd walk around with a blank expression on my face.



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Old 12-06-2007, 05:57 PM
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I think you've fallen foul of some image protection there, Bats - lol

Yikes. I visited the image and now it appears on the forum rather than that yellow box... I wonder if it is still a yellow box for others?
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Old 12-06-2007, 06:34 PM
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I think you've fallen foul of some image protection there, Bats - lol

Yikes. I visited the image and now it appears on the forum rather than that yellow box... I wonder if it is still a yellow box for others?

Well, at least it still shows a blank Bats.
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Old 12-06-2007, 06:38 PM
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I watched "Angels One Five" last night and thought the ending most disappointing. Throughout the film I felt it was a toss-up as to whether Dulcie Gray or John Gregson was going to be the sacrificial lamb.

A much better ending, IMHO, would have been to kill off the girl-friend, Veronica Hurst, maybe by something as unforeseen as being run over by a fire-engine, or ambulance--one would then be left with the Gregson character having attained all he wanted, but lacking the one thing that everyone wants.
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Old 12-06-2007, 06:43 PM
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Has anyone mentioned the end of Get Carter. Not a great surprise but brilliantly directed.

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Old 13-06-2007, 01:50 PM
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Has anyone mentioned the end of Get Carter. Not a great surprise but brilliantly directed.

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hey bats, have you noticed that the sniper who shoots Carter at the end is sitting opposite him on the train at the opening of the film as Carter travels from London up to Newcastle? blink and you will miss him...! Good ending though.
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Old 13-06-2007, 04:02 PM
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hey bats, have you noticed that the sniper who shoots Carter at the end is sitting opposite him on the train at the opening of the film as Carter travels from London up to Newcastle? blink and you will miss him...! Good ending though.
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No, I have never noticed that. I will have to dig out my copy of the dvd and have a look. Cheers.

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Old 13-06-2007, 04:06 PM
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It was quite a surprise the first time I saw it.
After that I sort of guessed what was coming, but it was still very well done

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Old 13-06-2007, 04:23 PM
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It was quite a surprise the first time I saw it.
After that I sort of guessed what was coming, but it was still very well done

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For me, Get Carter is one of those films which convey a feeling of 'impending doom' for it's leading character. Once the hitman appeared flashing that awful ring I just knew Carter was going to cop it. Great film.


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Yet a predictable ending - or rather, all of its predictable outcomes - did not dilute or weaken the story or my enjoyment of the film one bit. Whatever lowlife he was, I found myself cheering for Caine anyway.
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Shamed to admit I've only ever seen bits of this film
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Old 13-06-2007, 06:31 PM
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Give yourself a treat sir, it is a great film, and I was cheering him on too. Carter was horrible, but the rest were even worse. John Osborne's non-acting really suited his role ... nothing reached his eyes, an effectively creepy performance.
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Old 13-06-2007, 06:50 PM
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I cannot help but be pun-ridden and jokey... as well as being serious... If too many folk found my humour unsuitable for a forum such as this... I'd have to be booted out - lol (And I don't think that is going to happen).

As for the current serious conversation... I've tried everything I can think of to try and get what I am saying across... but the point seems to be completely missed. I blame myself for this failing. What I am trying to communicate is being completely misunderstood. So I'm now giving up trying to explain as a lost cause.

I'll have to try and find a middle point between serious and non-serious here on the forum... and being Autistic... middle points are not easy on me - lol.

To me, this excellent forum isn't particularly serious, but is specialised... Perhaps a few people think it is more serious and in-depth than it probably is. There certainly should be room for humourists such as myself and Bats etc...otherwise this could become a rather dull place. By this I am not saying we have brought humour here... it was obviously already here before us... but we are the ones who appear to have upset one other or been the focus of the minor complaint.
Been busy working, so back to this late AN...

I think I appreciate what you were trying to say - correct me if I'm wrong - you cannot have 'absolute' truth in what is, as I have said before, a situation of fundamental unreality ; it is, essentially, a performance.

The characters therein are distillations and amalgamations of the writer's knowledge, experience and creativity ; hence it is difficult (if not impossible) to give this a definition of 'real' even if it does reflect certain elements of reality - as in the social themes of A TASTE OF HONEY.

Drama requires this unreality because (obviously) absolute reality doesn't play well. Am I nearer your mark now ?

As I said, I'd be interested in discussing how we perceive these characters and how they 'live' for us within the span of the piece (and sometimes beyond) which does, I think, cause that confusion which started this mini debate in the first place..

As to the forum comments, humour has a place here - it would be pretty dry if it didn't. It only becomes a problem when the jokes either overwhelm the core subject, or are so 'in' to a particular group that it makes the forum seem cliquey and puts off new members who might bring something fresh.

We've been here before and these spills and upsets are the problem with the written word on the screen - verbal nuances are obviously lost, and one person's interpretation of an innocuous remark can lead to 'toys out of the pram time'. Like any society, be it at large or in this microcosm, it's simply a matter of tolerance.

How boring we would be if we were all the same, eh ?

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Old 13-06-2007, 08:47 PM
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Whichever bits you've seen, the other bits are quite good as well

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