Raheem
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Was the wicker man prop in the 2006 version made from actual wicker?
If not, that would be Nicholas Cage in a wickerless cage.
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If not, that would be Nicholas Cage in a wickerless cage.
Although I'm still waiting for your treatise on class, the rise of the automobile and the Magnificent Ambersons.
krtek a houby
Anger is Hi-NRG
Never get the whole giving up on films. Always watch to the bitter end. Citizen Kane is one of my favourites. Maybe the hype has done for it, over the years.
JimW
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Now just imagine if he filmed the scene furious because he had no underpants on.
I was underwhelmed the first time I saw it as well. But I've come to love after seeing the extended cut. I think if the whole idea of the pagan cult doesn't feel seductive to you, the film will fall a bit flat. Also it's kind of funny when you watch it again, with Edward Woodward's reactions to the naked flame dance, the maypole etc. "But, but they're naked" / "Well naturally...". Also it's a great musical.
Anyway I feel we've strayed from the topic of the thread. Can we please, please, please get back to more pressing matters!
Now what was this business with the swan?
Kaka Tim
Half Arsed and Slapdash till I Die
Great joke - but you missed out the whole build up where he keeps calling a zig zag a zig zog and infuriating his ski instructor - so they ask another bloke on the slope to settle the argument - "when you go in and out of flags or trees or whatever, is it a zig zag or a zig zog?" setting up the punch line.
danny la rouge
More like *fanny* la rouge!
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NoXion
Craicy the Squirrel
The thing that gets me about it is that it doesn't actually sound that bad. Sure, they don't stun the creature (IIRC), but then I'm kind of skeptical about whether electrical stunning really does much beyond stopping the animal from moving; my experience of being electrocuted tells me that you can most definitely still be aware and feel things, and I suspect it's more done for ease of handling by workers than for the animal's sake. Not sure about this so feel free to correct me, but don't they also have to kill the animal by slitting its throat with a very sharp knife? I've accidentally cut myself with blades so sharp that I didn't realise until the blood started dripping. Death by major and rapid loss of blood volume is hardly Rasputinian.
Plus the major giveaway is that the sort of people who complain about halal slaughter are also the same types who hardly ever even mentioned standard slaughtering practices before. So yeah, racists.
Raheem
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cantsin
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it's the atmosphere of the whole thing, coming out of that period when the rebellious, politically awake spirit of the late sixties had partially collapsed, and people were drifting off into all kinds of esoterica, "looking within" for answers etc... and this filmed seemed to just open up a glimpse of this fully formed, alt pagan world out there somewhere ( and there seemed to be all kinds of culty charlatans / shamans / chancers at it back then ) .
MrSki
Who am I to say you're wrong
In the version I remember it was a zig zag or a zag zig & as I said before it was 20 B&H.
The most boring, uninteresting film I've ever seen. I enjoyed the first two Godfather films though.
Raheem
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It should rightly end with character A asking for some "toboggo".In the version I remember it was a zig zag or a zag zig & as I said before it was 20 B&H.
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I enjoyed his work with J Majik.
I very much regret making it to the end
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littlebabyjesus
one of Maxwell's demons
To stun or not to stun is kind of disputed wrt Halal and Kosher killing. Most halal slaughter is done with pre-stun in the UK now anyway. The best knowledge is that pre-stunning does reduce suffering, and I would support a complete ban on non-stun slaughter. I see no justification for a religious exemption. However, it is also true enough that there are important issues to do with slaughter in the UK other than stunning.
Humane Slaughter & Stunned Meat | RSPCA
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
Wilf
Slouching towards Billingham
Long time since I've seen it but I thought it was the music that set it aside from just about every other horror film? Not just that it has pagan-folky-hippy-ish music throughout, it doesn't have any of the atmospherics of a typical horror film.
I had heard it had a great soundtrack, but lots of films have great soundtracks but aren't musicals...
FWIW I recently watched Roddy McDowall's 1970 folk horror film Tam Lin, which also has an excellent sinister folk soundtrack (from Pentangle) and has similar production values - and an incredible central performance from Ava Gardner... and while it's not as singularly weird as Wickerman, it did seem odd to me while watching that Wickerman is often listed as one of the greatest films ever made, and Tam Lin is totally unheard of (you can watch it for free on youtube if you like)
oh and it also stars an unexpectedly beautiful young Ian Mcshane, and Joanna Lumley as a satanist hippie. It's got everything really.
tim
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littlebabyjesus
one of Maxwell's demons
I watched that on your recommendation. Very enjoyable, and deserving of more attention definitely. Ian McShane was famously beautiful as a youth, no? Villain is another where he parades his beauty. Another underrated film.
He may have been, but I was unaware of anything he'd done before Lovejoy, so...
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
this is turning into the best thread currently on urban
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Careful now, I got torn apart on here a few years ago for suggesting The Wicker Man was a musical
but it is though.
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