Brit flicks: the kite mark of shite

[butchersapron]

Who?

 

[Hi-ASL]

Isn't that American History X?

 

[Belushi]

lol the attacks on the asian guy in the shop and black guy at the end along with the racist comments made me think he was racist, stupid really.

You still aint got it right

 

[Orang Utan]

lol the attacks on the asian guy in the shop and black guy at the end along with the racist comments made me think he was racist, stupid really.

Combo doesn't kill anyone. He doesn't recruit Shaun into his gang. Woody does. Woody isn't a racist.

 

[newme]

http://www.uncut.co.uk/film/uncut/reviews/9750

England, 1983. Looking for attention and companionship, 12-year-old Midlands lad Shaun is adopted by a bunch of skinheads. All's fine until psychotic racist Cosmo enters the fray, splitting the group and bringing Shaun into contact with the ugly, violent side of Eighties life - the far right and the rise of the National Front.

Later, when he threatens a Pakistani shopkeeper or harasses Asian kids in the street, its an darker side of the same process, Shaun here mimicking Cosmo.

http://www.slashfilm.com/2007/05/05/tribeca-movie-review-this-is-england/

The film has a natural tone to it, despite the numerous amounts of musical montages to try and capture the feel of the times.

The characters make choices that do not make any sense whatsoever and enter improbable situations. The dialogue digresses into a barrage of cockney vulgarity, but it feels totally tactless and insincere.

http://www.timeout.com/film/news/1846/this-is-england-andrew-shim-q-a.html

Andrew Shim made his film debut playing the title character in Shane Meadows' 'A Room for Romeo Brass'. The two again collaborate on 'This is England', in which Shim plays Milky, the only black member of a white skinhead gang. Chris Tilly caught up with him to discuss the role.

I spoke to Stephen Graham a little while ago, and we spoke at length about that painful and violent scene the two of you share at the end of the film. What was it like from your point of view?

When Shane told me about this scene he had in mind for me and Stephen, as soon as I heard about it I was well up for it. I probably wasn't prepared for how physically and more emotionally draining it was going to be. We shot it for three days which is a long time to shoot any scene anyway. Emotionally, it was really, really tiring and upsetting because to get the emotion to come across on screen we tried to make it as real as possible. Not just with the physicalness of it, but also Stephen was saying things about my family and I was doing the same to him, just to get the emotion into things. That's why it's a really, really powerful scene. Now that I see the finished article I'm really chuffed that we did it and managed to pull it off, but I know how much we had to sacrifice to get it. And not just us, the whole crew. Danny Cohen the DOP and all his crew and costume and makeup and whatnot, they all helped to make that scene what it is. I know it took a lot out of them because it's so real – Tommo, bless him, when he was chucked out of the room, he thought it was real, he thought it was actually happening, so when he's crying, he was actually crying.

Seems like Ive got it mainly right at least, especially given the fact I already stated I watched it a while back. Oh I got who recruited him into it wrong, big fucking deal.

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

Anyone who thinks This is England was in any way pandering to racism or racists is to be quite honest an idiot.

 

[Belushi]

Anyone who thinks This is England was in any way pandering to racism or racists is to be quite honest an idiot.

Innit, talk about completely missing the point.

 

[newme]

Anyone who thinks This is England was in any way pandering to racism or racists is to be quite honest an idiot.

Who said it was pandering to anything, I said the leader was a racist, which weirdly enough all the reviews, the writer and an actor from it seem to agree.

 

[Orang Utan]

No-one's disputing that though

 

[newme]

No-one's disputing that though

And I didnt say it was pandering to racists. lol
Someone disputed what I was about him being a racist, when Id simply mixed up the original recruiter who came to be out of the main story with the actual racist, seems like it would have been fairly simple to just realise Id got them the wrong way round but apparently just highlighting and "Err no" making it sound like its completely wrong when its simply the wrong character is a better way of doing that.