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Old 22-03-2007, 12:18 PM
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If I got it right, what can be seen in 49th Parallel as well, P&P (Pressburger's, to put it exactly) movies reflect an important idea, and that is about people being out of their place in time, struggling to get home and trying to accept the moment and rethinking their destiny at the same time. So the seamen lost on the foreign land, so the "displaced" soldiers and a land girl near Canterbury, so Joan Webster on the mythical Killoran, so Peter Carter floating between life and death, then unfortunate Theo Kretschmar-Schuldorff... But Powell's "They're a Weird Mob" proves he was pretty much on the same line as well, although it were Pressburger's experiences as a refugee that shaped stories.

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If I got it right, what can be seen in 49th Parallel as well, P&P (Pressburger's, to put it exactly) movies reflect an important idea, and that is about people being out of their place in time, struggling to get home and trying to accept the moment and rethinking their destiny at the same time. So the seamen lost on the foreign land, so the "displaced" soldiers and a land girl near Canterbury, so Joan Webster on the mythical Killoran, so Peter Carter floating between life and death, then unfortunate Theo Kretschmar-Schuldorff... But Powell's "They're a Weird Mob" proves he was pretty much on the same line as well, although it were Pressburger's experiences as a refugee that shaped stories.
Yes, you're right, that is another common theme and we do assume that it's influenced by Emeric being forced to move around Europe just before the war.
He started off quite close to you in Miskolc, North East Hungary.

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This explorataion of characters "out of place" is wonderful, and maybe this is why it contributes to theses films' timeless enchantment as opposed to being 'period pieces'. While they all seem to be set in the confines of one place and one time, the issues facing the characters goes well beyond calendars and flags.
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He started off quite close to you in Miskolc, North East Hungary.
Eerm, yes. It is right on the way if one is heading towards Warsaw by car!
Thanks for the info, I didn't know that. And, Powell I think also grew up outside of England? France or somewhere...? Or did he just go to learn his job there...
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Eerm, yes. It is right on the way if one is heading towards Warsaw by car!
Thanks for the info, I didn't know that. And, Powell I think also grew up outside of England? France or somewhere...? Or did he just go to learn his job there...
Powell was born in England, near Canterbury, and grew up there. When he was a young man, aged about 16, he went to work in a film studio in France. That's where he started to learn his trade, doing a bit of everything. Cinematography, set design, editing, writing titles (they were silent films), even some acting.
He came back to England in about 1928 and soon after that he started directing second feature films, the "quota quickies". Having to make those quickly, cheaply and to a tight schedule taught him just about everything else he needed to know until he got his big break to make his first big feature film The Edge of the World.

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He did also spend time with his father who ran a hotel in France, which he then inherited.

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