10-07-2010, 10:19 AM
Mark Stapleton Wrote:Never heard of that show, Jan, but its obviously from a while back because Ray Winstone looks no older than he did on a (rare) funny episode of Minder from the mid-1980's called Goodbye Sailor (I have it on DVD).
Don't want to disrupt the thread, so as a brief aside, the film "Scum" is a very powerful indictment of the violent and racist British Borstal (young offender institutions) culture. As the wiki piece below states, it was originally made as a BBC "Play For Today" in 1977, but BBC management refused to show it. Director Alan Clarke and scriptwriter Roy Minton remade it as a film for Channel 4, and Mary Whitehouse and the courts were furious.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scum_(film)
"Scum" is now frequently shown on British cable TV, and the "I'm the Daddy now" line has become part of popular discourse.
In the Borstal culture, the "Daddy" - not the governor - is the real top dog, the one who controls what happens.
"It means this War was never political at all, the politics was all theatre, all just to keep the people distracted...."
"Proverbs for Paranoids 4: You hide, They seek."
"They are in Love. Fuck the War."
Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
"Ccollanan Pachacamac ricuy auccacunac yahuarniy hichascancuta."
The last words of the last Inka, Tupac Amaru, led to the gallows by men of god & dogs of war
"Proverbs for Paranoids 4: You hide, They seek."
"They are in Love. Fuck the War."
Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
"Ccollanan Pachacamac ricuy auccacunac yahuarniy hichascancuta."
The last words of the last Inka, Tupac Amaru, led to the gallows by men of god & dogs of war