|
||||||||
Raymond Briggs 'Ethel and Ernest' to be shown on BBC this Christmas? |
![]() |
|
|
Thread Tools | Search this Thread |
|
|
#26 |
|
Forum Member
Join Date: Mar 2013
Posts: 271
|
Quote:
This was a wonderful, gentle story, and very poignant, I really feel sadness for anyone trying to make anything political out of it. Really sad.
|
|
|
|
|
Please sign in or register to remove this advertisement.
|
|
|
#27 |
|
Forum Member
Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: The end of time.
Posts: 12,100
|
That was wonderful and very poignant.
|
|
|
|
|
|
#28 |
|
Forum Member
Join Date: Dec 2013
Posts: 3,409
|
Quote:
It didn't need the party political stuff in there whatsoever. That's the point, nothing to do with whether the story itself is poignant.
It was their lives and era, of course it was going to be talked about as much as it was back than. Think you're making a big deal out of nothing. |
|
|
|
|
#29 |
|
Forum Member
Join Date: May 2012
Posts: 7,320
|
Quote:
It didn't need the party political stuff in there whatsoever. That's the point, nothing to do with whether the story itself is poignant.
Without it and without their different beliefs it would loose 50% of the story. Ethel was a strong lady with strong views, and from strength then lost her mind, it was poignant. No one should be trying to make something political out if this. |
|
|
|
|
|
#30 |
|
Forum Member
Join Date: May 2012
Posts: 7,320
|
Quote:
I knew there be one who'd bring in politics into this thread.
It was their lives and era, of course it was going to be talked about as much as it was back than. Think you're making a big deal out of nothing. |
|
|
|
|
|
#31 |
|
Forum Member
Join Date: Mar 2013
Posts: 271
|
Quote:
That's where you are very very wrong, it highlighted important parts of history through their lives, the political changes were important historical facts.
Without it and without their different beliefs it would loose 50% of the story. Ethel was a strong lady with strong views, and from strength then lost her mind, it was poignant. No one should be trying to make something political out if this. |
|
|
|
|
|
#32 |
|
Forum Member
Join Date: Sep 2012
Location: Milton Keynes
Posts: 3,079
|
I thought that was lovely. Very sad at the end.
Nothing political about it. Just two people with different views. |
|
|
|
|
|
#33 |
|
Forum Member
Join Date: Mar 2015
Posts: 236
|
It was absolutely beautiful. Probably the best thing I've seen on TV this Christmas AND this year. I find animation can be even more moving when done right.
I also loved those photographs on the credits. The song there was performed by Sir Paul McCartney too! |
|
|
|
|
|
#34 |
|
Forum Member
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Buckingham
Posts: 28,540
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
#35 |
|
Forum Member
Join Date: Apr 2010
Posts: 18,874
|
Why did they all have red fingers?
|
|
|
|
|
|
#36 |
|
Forum Member
Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: Sarf London
Posts: 13,296
|
Quote:
It was absolutely beautiful. Probably the best thing I've seen on TV this Christmas AND this year. I find animation can be even more moving when done right.
I also loved those photographs on the credits. The song there was performed by Sir Paul McCartney too! |
|
|
|
|
|
#37 |
|
Forum Member
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: OP is a murderer!!
Posts: 27,207
|
Quote:
How old is that cat?
That was wonderful yet so upsetting. |
|
|
|
|
|
#38 |
|
Forum Member
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: OP is a murderer!!
Posts: 27,207
|
Quote:
It was absolutely beautiful. Probably the best thing I've seen on TV this Christmas AND this year. I find animation can be even more moving when done right.
I also loved those photographs on the credits. The song there was performed by Sir Paul McCartney too! |
|
|
|
|
|
#39 |
|
Forum Member
Join Date: Mar 2013
Posts: 10,661
|
Quote:
Why did they all have red fingers?
|
|
|
|
|
|
#40 |
|
Forum Member
Join Date: May 2011
Posts: 2,266
|
Quote:
It was absolutely beautiful. Probably the best thing I've seen on TV this Christmas AND this year. I find animation can be even more moving when done right.
I also loved those photographs on the credits. The song there was performed by Sir Paul McCartney too! |
|
|
|
|
|
#41 |
|
Forum Member
Join Date: Mar 2010
Posts: 451
|
Such a beautiful film. I've never heard of it before and glad that I watched it.
Really made me feel nostalgic for my Nan. I just loved the simplicity of this film. |
|
|
|
|
|
#42 |
|
Forum Member
Join Date: May 2008
Posts: 327
|
What a lovely and touching film. Absolutely wonderful.
|
|
|
|
|
|
#43 |
|
Forum Member
Join Date: Dec 2008
Posts: 1,433
|
It was very poignant and I enjoyed it more than I expected, however I'm as confused as others as to the scheduling. It definitely had a Sunday teatime feel to me.
Though if it had been on then I probably would have missed it. |
|
|
|
|
|
#44 |
|
Forum Member
Join Date: Nov 2004
Posts: 4,817
|
Quote:
It was absolutely beautiful. Probably the best thing I've seen on TV this Christmas AND this year. I find animation can be even more moving when done right.
I also loved those photographs on the credits. The song there was performed by Sir Paul McCartney too! ![]() I did notice though that Rosie the cat didn't seem to age.
|
|
|
|
|
|
#45 |
|
Forum Member
Join Date: May 2012
Posts: 12,990
|
It feels like BBC One's target audience is those with a free bus pass with the amount of period dramas they've been showing recently.
|
|
|
|
|
|
#46 |
|
Forum Member
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Brighton
Posts: 811
|
What a lovely and true to life film.
Really enjoyed that! |
|
|
|
|
|
#47 |
|
Forum Member
Join Date: Jun 2002
Posts: 37,020
|
A lovely home movie for Briggs but I'm not sure what the rest of us are supposed to make of it. If those lives merited 90 minutes of expensive animation and primetime at Xmas on BBC1 then so did tens of millions of others of resolutely ordinary ones during the same time period. Why was it "poignant"? People die of old age - Is this news?
No complaints about the craft - It was beautiful to look at but there's no real reason for it to exist as a feature-length, cinema-released movie. Anyone about to quote me and castigate me for daring to have an opinion, remember to not to get personal as is so often the case here.... |
|
|
|
|
|
#48 |
|
Forum Member
Join Date: Oct 2011
Posts: 1,582
|
Quote:
It didn't need the party political stuff in there whatsoever. Particularly given the war time era in which it's set....nothing to do with whether the story itself is poignant.
|
|
|
|
|
#49 |
|
Forum Member
Join Date: Apr 2010
Posts: 18,874
|
They could have changed the story line to make it more exciting like a murder or an affair or the cat going postal.
|
|
|
|
|
|
#50 |
|
Forum Member
Join Date: Apr 2013
Location: East Sussex
Posts: 11,456
|
I thought that was superb.
|
|
|
|
![]() |
| Thread Tools | Search this Thread |
|
All times are GMT. The time now is 11:13.





