Dad's Army remake.

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Vocal Minority

8,582 posts

151 months

Friday 10th October 2014
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Zod said:
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy.
By what definition is that an action film?! (He is very good as Alleline though)

Halmyre

11,148 posts

138 months

Friday 10th October 2014
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Vocal Minority said:
Zod said:
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy.
By what definition is that an action film?! (He is very good as Alleline though)
I couldn't take to him as Alleline, too many memories of Michael Aldridge I suppose. But then, I never was convinced by Ian Richardson as Bill Haydon.

Vocal Minority

8,582 posts

151 months

Friday 10th October 2014
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When I read the book, to me, he slots in slightly better. That said, Alec Guinness NAILED Smiley - and Gary Oldman wasn't really there.

Morningside

24,110 posts

228 months

Tuesday 21st October 2014
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Some early photos.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2801529/ho...

Shame its being filmed in Yorkshire not North Norfolk.

anonymous-user

Original Poster:

53 months

Tuesday 21st October 2014
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Further proof that they're not playing the characters, they're playing the actors who played the characters originally.

Mutley

3,178 posts

258 months

Wednesday 22nd October 2014
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Crossflow Kid said:
Further proof that they're not playing the characters, they're playing the actors who played the characters originally.
Personally I would wait until i had seen the film before making such a bold statement.

Knowing how ingrained this is to the British conciousness, could the producers have thought that they should/could try to fill the roles with actors who have a resemblence to the originals?

anonymous-user

Original Poster:

53 months

Wednesday 22nd October 2014
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Mutley said:
Crossflow Kid said:
Further proof that they're not playing the characters, they're playing the actors who played the characters originally.
Personally I would wait until i had seen the film before making such a bold statement.

Knowing how ingrained this is to the British conciousness, could the producers have thought that they should/could try to fill the roles with actors who have a resemblence to the originals?
And that's my point. Mainwaring is Arthur Lowe to most people so trying to make the new lead look like a dead ringer for him immediately makes me think they're simply trying to do a carbon copy on the assumption it was funny then so it must be funny now. And that never, ever works.
When, for example, Bond or Dr Who moves on, do they try to simply copy the old version, literally?
No, they recognise that the character(s) have to adapt to each actor's interpretation.
What's happening here is they're making a 2014 film about a 1960s/70s sitcom about the Home Guard of WW2.

snuffy

9,661 posts

283 months

Sunday 16th November 2014
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From the BBC today:



If that does not look like actors playing actors I don't know what does.


Kitchski

6,514 posts

230 months

Sunday 16th November 2014
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It's going to be terrible. frown

RichB

51,435 posts

283 months

Sunday 16th November 2014
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snuffy said:
From the BBC today:



If that does not look like actors playing actors I don't know what does.
They're certainly not as good as the Goodwood players who enact the Dad's Army display at the Revival. hehe

confused_buyer

6,610 posts

180 months

Sunday 16th November 2014
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Wasn't there a fair old overlap between the actors and characters in the original anyway? I bet if you listed lines of Sgt Wilson and real life quotes of John Le Mesurier it would be hard to tell which was which so, to be fair to the current lot, if they play the characters right there will always be something of the original actor in them.

Gary Oldman basically played Alec Guiness playing George Smiley in TTSS and got away with it.

heebeegeetee

28,596 posts

247 months

Monday 17th November 2014
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I'm rather expecting, hoping even, that this is indeed about actors playing actors, otherwise its a film about the Home Guard and not about Dad's Army.

I think the programme Dad's Army was such a wonderful thing in it's own right that it is in itself something worth making a film about, with a bit of poetic licence of course.

Vocal Minority

8,582 posts

151 months

Monday 17th November 2014
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confused_buyer said:
Wasn't there a fair old overlap between the actors and characters in the original anyway?
It was either Croft or Perry who said, by the end you couldn't tell where Arthur Lowe stopped and Mainwaring started.

confused_buyer

6,610 posts

180 months

Monday 17th November 2014
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Vocal Minority said:
It was either Croft or Perry who said, by the end you couldn't tell where Arthur Lowe stopped and Mainwaring started.
We didn't get to find out what Wilson's last words were in the show before he went to the platoon in the sky but I bet if we had they'd have almost certainly been "it's all been rather lovely".

wink

Incidentally, I did see one of the stage shows from a few years back where the actors basically played the previous actors playing the part and expected it to be a disaster. It wasn't much to my surprise. Of course, they were using original scripts so whether this films is awful or not will probably depend entirely on whether the script is any good.

Watchman

6,391 posts

244 months

Thursday 13th August 2015
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This popped up in my FB feed today. Whilst I love the original series (all of them), I'll give this a shot too because it does look as though they are trying to do it justice.

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/08/12/dads-ar...

Eric Mc

121,784 posts

264 months

Thursday 13th August 2015
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Caught a very brief glimpse on "The One Show" last night and to be absolutely frank, it looked OK. I'll be willing to give it a try.

marshalla

15,902 posts

200 months

Thursday 13th August 2015
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snuffy said:
From the BBC today:

Tut, tut. Pte. Godfrey carrying a rifle ? Surely not.

KTF

9,788 posts

149 months

Friday 14th August 2015
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Official trailer here if you want a few minutes of torture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nig2SQk6jx4

Halb

53,012 posts

182 months

Friday 14th August 2015
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marshalla said:
Tut, tut. Pte. Godfrey carrying a rifle ? Surely not.
yes
The episode where the team found out about Godfrey's First World War service makes me well up, every time. Likewise the episode where the crew mutiny against Mainwaring, and genuinely tell him to 'do one,'
Those two episodes are about as perfect as you can get of mixing pathos and humour and coming up with a golden result. I can watch them over and over.

confused_buyer

6,610 posts

180 months

Friday 14th August 2015
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First thing which really annoys me is "1944...on the brink of defeat".

Umm, actually, we were not on the brink of defeat in 1944. We were in 1941, maybe 1942, but not 1944.