Villain DVD. Richard Burton

[batman]

Originally Posted by Modular Assistance in high street HMVs has always been dire. Ask some spotty in-store herbert about the latest blockbuster or Dr Who DVD and they'll be fairly forthcoming. Repeat the process about an older British title, and you might as well ask the cat! Do your own research, and then buy online. It's the only reasonably stress-free option these days...

I haven't bought from a high street retailer for ages for that very reason .... buying online is usually cheaper and you can have a cup of tea at the same time!

Bats.

[Chris B]

Hi All
in addition to the above items regarding HMV don't let us forget the incessant hurdy gurdy that is played at full volume in the stores, it's got to the stage when they should supply ear defenders as you enter the shop, it takes a brave man or woman to stay in the shops more than 15 minutes without earplugs.
regards Chris bee

[marker]

Originally Posted by Chris B Hi All in addition to the above items regarding HMV don't let us forget the incessant hurdy gurdy that is played at full volume in the stores, it's got to the stage when they should supply ear defenders as you enter the shop, it takes a brave man or woman to stay in the shops more than 15 minutes without earplugs. regards Chris bee

I could not agree more why the people running not just HMV shops feel the need to play all this rubbish music all day, I should think they are driving customers away, I wont go in any shop playing loud music now, younger people seem to take it for granted

[batman]

Originally Posted by marker I could not agree more why the people running not just HMV shops feel the need to play all this rubbish music all day, I should think they are driving customers away, I wont go in any shop playing loud music now

Background music is the pits .... especially in restaurants. Why do they do it? When I worked in a restaurant I asked the owners that question ... they didn't know either! The only use I had for it was when people wouldn't leave at the end of the night. We'd shut at midnight and one or two would want to stay until dawn if they could get away with it. We'd get rid of them by putting on a CD of Keith Jarrett's 'Koln Concert', three hours of jazz piano improvisations. That usually did the trick!

Bats.

[marker]

Originally Posted by batman Background music is the pits .... especially in restaurants. Why do they do it? When I worked in a restaurant I asked the owners that question ... they didn't know either! The only use I had for it was when people wouldn't leave at the end of the night. We'd shut at midnight and one or two would want to stay until dawn if they could get away with it. We'd get rid of them by putting on a CD of Keith Jarrett's 'Koln Concert', three hours of jazz piano improvisations. That usually did the trick! Bats.

The trouble is that no doubt some people dont want to sit in silence or actually enjoy having this dirge music played

[batman]

The restaurant was a nice little Italian place owned by a couple of gay guys. It was a lovely intimate place but they insisted on playing this crap all the time ... it was the 80s so there was a lot of Hazel Dean and Bronksi Beat action going on. Some people would ask us to turn it down but others, as you say, seemed to like it. I was tempted to take in some Killing Joke or Black Oak Arkansas CDs to test their resolve.

Bats.

[marker]

Originally Posted by batman The restaurant was a nice little Italian place owned by a couple of gay guys. It was a lovely intimate place but they insisted on playing this crap all the time ... it was the 80s so there was a lot of Hazel Dean and Bronksi Beat action going on. Some people would ask us to turn it down but others, as you say, seemed to like it. I was tempted to take in some Killing Joke or Black Oak Arkansas CDs to test their resolve. Bats.

I would think most people eating a meal would want to perhaps chat quietly, rather than have to shout above this raucous din,I like to eat a nice meal with perhaps some discrete live piano music as background acompanyment

[batman]

Originally Posted by marker I would think most people eating a meal would want to perhaps chat quietly, rather than have to shout above this raucous din,I like to eat a nice meal with perhaps some discrete live piano music as background acompanyment

That's my ideal too .... how I wish there were still 'nightclubs' like the ones you see in old movies. You sit at your table, have a drink, dance if you want to and then some gorgeous young lady sings to you .... fantastic!

Bats.

[Andrew 76]

Originally Posted by Chris B Hi All in addition to the above items regarding HMV don't let us forget the incessant hurdy gurdy that is played at full volume in the stores, it's got to the stage when they should supply ear defenders as you enter the shop, it takes a brave man or woman to stay in the shops more than 15 minutes without earplugs. regards Chris bee

This morning, the Enfield HMV was blaring out Bob Dylan's greatest hits, and the last time I was there, it was 101 hits of the 70's (not all of them when I was there, of course), so I didn't mind

[rskershaw]

Does anyone know from which building the opening sequence of Villain was shot? The camera tracks from Battersea Power Station, along to Millbank Tower, Westminster Cathedral and Parliament.
Also, when Vic takes his last glimpse of London before being arrested the shot looks down the Thames towards Vauxhall, suggesting a view from Chelsea Bridge, but the foreground is of wasteland and an Ind Coope brewery. Was this superimposed?

[Steve Crook]

Originally Posted by rskershaw Does anyone know from which building the opening sequence of Villain was shot? The camera tracks from Battersea Power Station, along to Millbank Tower, Westminster Cathedral and Parliament. Also, when Vic takes his last glimpse of London before being arrested the shot looks down the Thames towards Vauxhall, suggesting a view from Chelsea Bridge, but the foreground is of wasteland and an Ind Coope brewery. Was this superimposed?

You're going round a couple of bends in the river to do that first one and it's a couple of miles along the river from Battersea Power Station to the Houses of Parliament. Too far for a single camera tracking shot. I would say either a model or a helicopter shot. You might just be able to do it from the roof of St. Thomas's Hospital. But that's a lot nearer Westminster than Battersea. So unless it was just the chimneys of Battersea that you see in the distance that's unlikely. There are some taller buildings along the Albert Emankment (Vauxhall to Lambeth) now. But they weren't there in 1971 when Villain was made

Steve

[DocRobertPepper]

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[mariocki]

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