NEDS
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does his make up in his room
I can't wait to see this
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>^^<
Fedayn
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and me and I'm not even Scottish
Nor am I.
imposs1904
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Nice wee piece here about Mullan:
Making Neds
Of course, people are going to compare it with Small Faces.
Making Neds
Of course, people are going to compare it with Small Faces.
zenie
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Fedayn
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Subscriber only mate
Fedayn
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That was my first thought as well.
Fedayn
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There will be a certain 'similarity', after all given it's set in 1973 at the end of the suedehead and beginning of trhe smoothie/bootyboy era there'll be a certain 'clothing resenblance'. As it goes, the fella who did alot of the costumes for the film is well quoted up here as the tailor for skinheads to go to for a bespoke suit.
imposs1904
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weird that. 'cos I'm not a subscriber.
Here's the text of the piece cut and pasted below:
Seven years after he won the Golden Lion for his directorial debut, Peter Mullan is back in the director’s chair, filming Neds in Glasgow. He talks to ScreenDaily about the 1973-set story and its influences
Peter Mullan describes Neds as “personal but not autobiographical”. His first directorial project since The Magdalene Sisters (2002) is set in the Glasgow of 1973 and follows a bright, sensitive youngster drawn towards the violence of the local gang culture.
The poverty of his circumstances, the oppressive hand of a drunken, bullying father and problems at school combine to warp his expectations of life.There are some parallels with Mullan’s own youth but the script comes from a place where reality ends and imagination begins.
“I would say that maybe 10% of it actually happened and the other 90% is fiction; little anecdotes I’ve heard over the years, stories I’ve been told and things I’ve just made up,” Mullan explains.
“Where it’s personal is in the essential journey of a young man trying to find out who he is, going through all that existential anguish and finding his humanity again in his teenage years. I think we’ve all been through that.”
Mullan holds a unique position within European film culture as a Cannes Best Actor winner for Ken Loach’s My Name Is Joe (1998) and a Venice Golden Lion winner for The Magdalene Sisters which he wrote and directed.The success of the latter brought him offers from around the world.
“I got a lot of offers for Hollywood scripts and not one of them interested me,” he admits candidly. “The one that did was The Time Traveler’s Wife. The script was pretty good and I did my first proper Hollywood pitch and just fucked it up. I went completely cerebral and arthouse and was just met by silence.
“They said, ‘Can you give us broader strokes?’ and that totally caught me off guard. What did that mean? Of course I subsequently discovered it meant who did I see in the lead roles and how much was it going to make.”
Budgeted at less than $8m (£5m), Neds is a UK (Bluelight), France (Fidelite), Italy (Studio Urania) co-production funded by Film 4, the UK Film Council, Scottish Screen and Wild Bunch who are also handling international sales. E1 Entertainment will release in the UK. It has been a project close to Mullan’s heart for a number of years and there is a palpable sense of pleasure in his return to the director’s chair.
“It was a real shock to me that it was eight years since I made The Magdalene Sisters,” he reflects. “I never thought I would have left it this long. I’ve done an awful lot as an actor but as a director I’ve done fuck all. After a couple of days of panic, I settled into it and had forgotten how much I enjoyed it.”
Mullan’s approach to a tale set in the 1970s is to not stress the obvious. There will be no glaring period props, no wallowing in false nostalgia and no indulgence of music tracks from the era. Although he does think the style of the piece may have started to reflect the film and television dramas of the 1970s.
“I’m very conscious now that I’m shooting certain scenes that are almost an homage to certain TV programmes and films of the era,” he admits. “The domestic scenes and the acting style is influenced by the BBC Plays For Today and directors like Ken Loach, Alan Clarke and there are even elements of Mike Leigh slipping in, and none of it done consciously. Then there are moments when it’s almost like Peckinpah. The film almost ends up like an opera before the calming of the storm.”
Mullan has been pleased to discover the humour of the piece is also beginning to emerge during shooting.
“I always thought it was funny and I’m not sure other people did. Everyone was very complimentary about the script but they all though it was grim. Now they are beginning to see the humour. There are some great little moments the camera captures that are completely unexpected and pure gold as far as I’m concerned.”
Fedayn
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Yeah same fella.
imposs1904
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This looks good.
Peter Mullan doing an hour long interview at last year's BFI London Film Festival. Much talk about Neds and other stuff.
Peter Mullan doing an hour long interview at last year's BFI London Film Festival. Much talk about Neds and other stuff.
Fedayn
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Do you not speak English then?
Griff
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Fedayn
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Fedayn
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Brilliant film, recognised a few faces and places in it. The bridge that becomes prominent is a 10 minute walk from wher I live so it was rather 'immediate'. The film is set in the schemes surrounding where I live and the gang names were/are all from where I live indeed the very estate I live in.
Even 'funnier' was that the fella who played the lead characters older brother was sat 3 seats along giving us all a slightly inebriated running commentary..... Didn't seem to jar with the film neither.... I was having fun checking out some of the clothes.
Even 'funnier' was that the fella who played the lead characters older brother was sat 3 seats along giving us all a slightly inebriated running commentary..... Didn't seem to jar with the film neither.... I was having fun checking out some of the clothes.
la ressistance
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is it realistic and "gritty"? i'm looking forward to seeing it.
Fedayn
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Well it certainly works for me, a bit more probably, because the streets and the names of the gangs, schemes and estates are part of whree I live. It's a brilliant film and as for gritty, aye plenty of red ash to roll around in.
la ressistance
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is it as gritty as point break? i'm watching it now,
Fedayn
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Nah, that's almost 'Loach-ian' in comparison to NEDS.
la ressistance
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keanu just left to go jump out a plane but without his gun, i think theyre onto him, but it's all so subtle i cant tell.
my sphincter is tight with the tension.
If it had been without a parachute then i think they would have definitely been onto him.
Saw it yesterday myself. I loved it.
There's obvious comparisons to This is England but as I was watching I found myself thinking I preferred NEDS, just the look of it and the grainy look of it. The first half is full of lols (I never knew my mate was one of those 'loudest laugh in the cinema' types), school scenes especially.
It's all a bit before my time but I've a mate from Glasgow who always had a story to tell about his youth and the knife gangs his family had been involved in, alcoholic Dad etc so it was a bit more familiar than it might have been. Certainly came off as more 'real' than TiE for me. I loved how loads of the lads were shown at the end with their audition names and numbers, wouldn't have guessed that many were probably first time actors.
There's obvious comparisons to This is England but as I was watching I found myself thinking I preferred NEDS, just the look of it and the grainy look of it. The first half is full of lols (I never knew my mate was one of those 'loudest laugh in the cinema' types), school scenes especially.
It's all a bit before my time but I've a mate from Glasgow who always had a story to tell about his youth and the knife gangs his family had been involved in, alcoholic Dad etc so it was a bit more familiar than it might have been. Certainly came off as more 'real' than TiE for me. I loved how loads of the lads were shown at the end with their audition names and numbers, wouldn't have guessed that many were probably first time actors.
