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The way they advertise this programme, as if it's exciting and 'great to watch.' Real people died in this story. Raped and murdered, including a baby. Also the death at the hands of the state of an innocent man. I would never watch anything that glamorises real events. Quote:
I've seen the film so not sure there is any point in watching this, No one will top David Attenborough as Christie.
Exactly, and that film told it as it was. It didn't glamorise anything. |
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Richard Attenborough gave the finest acting performance I have EVER seen in that film
IMHO he was massively underrated as an actor |
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I've set for it to be recorded. I enjoyed (for want of a better word) the original so I'm curious as to how the series will go.
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Reviewed on Friday on The Wright Stuff and it was said to be very grim, as you'd expect. The movie was a hard-watch back in the day and still is now but at least that was done and dusted in one sitting in less than two hours. I just question the need to sit through an episodic version of this over three weeks, into Christmas (which poses questions about the suitability of scheduling if you ask me) for something that is detailing such appalling depravity.
I don't have the stomach to watch it. |
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I've seen the film so not sure there is any point in watching this, No one will top David Attenborough as Christie.
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100% right any remake is pointless.
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Or not, seeing as it was Dickie and not David - As pointed out multiple times!
Cold, dark, chilling in every sense. |
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The way they advertise this programme, as if it's exciting and 'great to watch.'
Real people died in this story. Raped and murdered, including a baby. Also the death at the hands of the state of an innocent man. I would never watch anything that glamorises real events. Exactly, and that film told it as it was. It didn't glamorise anything. |
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I'm going to give it a go but any sign of intrusive background music or inauthenticity (over-glamorous women cos they wouldn't have been in 1948) and it's game over! The Attenborough film was such a classic I wonder if it can be bettered.
(I didn't watch Poldark but saw a few minutes of it and was struck by a very glamorous girl in a field meant to be scything wheat. Amazing how an 18th century Cornish girl could get hold of lip gloss and mascara.) |
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Not sure this is pre Christmas viewing but it is perhaps opportune as this country heads to the right with calls for death penalty getting louder that people are reminded of the realities.
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I posted this on another thread a while back.
I visited Madam Tussauds in 1981, they had a replica of Christie's kitchen, with wax model of him. On the table was the actual glass jar he used to administer the gas to his poor victims. It was on loan from the crime museum in London, very chilling to actually see it. I'll watch tonight to see how it compares to the film. |
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I posted this on another thread a while back.
I visited Madam Tussauds in 1981, they had a replica of Christie's kitchen, with wax model of him. On the table was the actual glass jar he used to administer the gas to his poor victims. It was on loan from the crime museum in London, very chilling to actually see it. I'll watch tonight to see how it compares to the film. |
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The way they advertise this programme, as if it's exciting and 'great to watch.'
Real people died in this story. Raped and murdered, including a baby. Also the death at the hands of the state of an innocent man. I would never watch anything that glamorises real events. Can you honestly say you've never seen anything that glamorises real-life events? |
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The way they advertise this programme, as if it's exciting and 'great to watch.'
Real people died in this story. Raped and murdered, including a baby. Also the death at the hands of the state of an innocent man. I would never watch anything that glamorises real events. Exactly, and that film told it as it was. It didn't glamorise anything. I take it then you wouldn't watch as an example Wolf Hall? |
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I'm sure I remember seeing this too but it must have in the late sixties, I was horrified.
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The advantage of the original is that it was filmed in the same street in a neighbouring house and, of course, was made much nearer the time. The decor, fixtures and fittings were authentic as they would still have existed in post war Britain.
Judging by the clip I saw Evans sounded less Welsh than John Hurt and Beryl sounded more cockney than Judy Geeson. |
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Looking forward to this tonight. Each one is told from the perspective of one person, Christie's wife first, then Evans then Christie himself.
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i wonder if we'll get authentic racist language when the appalling Christie finds that west indians are moving in in the surrounding flats.
it's difficult to warm to him at all. |
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I was born in the mid 1940's and read about the court case and hangings about 2 years after Christie was hanged.
In my personal opinion, the Dickie Attenborough film of 1971 cannot be surpassed. As has been said, he gave his best ever acting performance for this. I will watch the BBC version, but in my mind and thoughts will still be the film version, which IMHO should be screened again, say on BBC. |
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i wonder if we'll get authentic racist language when the appalling Christie finds that west indians are moving in in the surrounding flats.
it's difficult to warm to him at all. |
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The Attenborough / Hurt / Gleason film was 1971.
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The film is a tour de force, but I will still be watching this series version.
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IMHO he was massively underrated as an actor
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That house looks like it was wallpapered by a blind man.
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Was he just released from prison or was that a hospital?
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