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Battleship Potemkin certainly left a mark as being particularly grim.
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One Foot In The Grave is pretty bleak. I didn't notice this until I re-watched it more recently but every episode seems to end on a downer, which is quite interesting for a sitcom. The very final episode was very dark at the end too.
Jude Rogers also wrote this in The Quietus - excellent article:Radio 4 is doing a thing about Threads on 21 September.
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‘The most horrific, sobering thing I’ve ever seen’: BBC nuclear apocalypse film Threads 40 years on
Ahead of a timely re-airing of Mick Jackson’s famously bleak docudrama, its director recalls why he unleashed a mushroom cloud on Sheffield in 1984www.theguardian.com
I can't download from the link, as it may pose a security risk. Who produced this leaflet?Reading that prompted me to find this Leeds & The Bomb pamphlet online:
It was given out to all and sundry in 1983, so I would have been 10.
Me and my friends were obsessed with that leaflet! It probably had more impact on me than any book I’d read.
We would pore over this map in particular:
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Most of us were lucky enough to live in the red and orange zones, and we’d tease the posher kids who lived in the yellow and white zones as we’d get vaporised instantly and they’d survive longer but get radiation sickness and suffer terribly like Jim & Hilda in When The Wind Blows.
It’s just a PDF of a leaflet Leeds Council circulated in 1983.I can't download from the link, as it may pose a security risk. Who produced this leaflet?
The original one was the most sinister imoOne of the films that really stuck with me the first time I watched it in terms of twist and shock, which I think made the build up and finale fit this thread, was this version of The Vanishing.
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That is the original. The US remake misses the whole point of it.The original one was the most sinister imo
I meant the original maybe as it was in black and white I thought it was earlier. It really affected me.That is the original. The US remake misses the whole point of it.
There is a US remake of Speak No Evil out at the moment, which I’m worried will do another Vanishing.
Dunno why I didn’t mention the original Speak No Evil on here actually.
I think it’s maybe cos I was telling my friends NOT to watch it as it was so bleak.![]()
It’s been a while since I’ve seen it but I don’t think it’s in black and white?I meant the original maybe as it was in black and white I thought it was earlier. It really affected me.
Regarding speak no evil I saw the 2024 one first and then watched 2022. They are almost the same until the last quarter and then totally different. The original was far more bleak (and I suppose realistic) than the remake.
I remember Loach's My Name is Joe from 1998 being a little bit grim, particularly towards the end. I saw it while an inpatient at a psychiatric unit.I see I have already posted Ken Loach’s Family Life on this thread, a bleak look at mental health treatment in the 70s
Threads is on BBC 4 tonight.Radio 4 is doing a thing about Threads on 21 September.
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‘The most horrific, sobering thing I’ve ever seen’: BBC nuclear apocalypse film Threads 40 years on
Ahead of a timely re-airing of Mick Jackson’s famously bleak docudrama, its director recalls why he unleashed a mushroom cloud on Sheffield in 1984www.theguardian.com
Poignant is the word there's another really good one where Fry is convinced his brother stole his lucky four leafed clover adopted his name and went on to live the life Fry had dreamed of. He went to the graveyard determined to dig up the grave and take back the clover only to discover that it wad the grave of his nephew who his brother had named after him.I also found the episode of Futurama in which Fry’s dog from his original timeline is shown waiting for him every day outside the pizza place where he used to work for the rest of his life and until the poor thing dies of old age absolutely fucking brutal![]()
Through the 40th anniversary I've discovered the Atomic Hobo podcast; it's a really interesting (if often very bleak) podcast exploring how we prepared for nuclear war, particularly notable for a four minute by four minute deep dive into Threads which is excellent if not episodes to listen to on a bad day.Threads is on BBC 4 tonight.