Making A Scene - Favorite Film Clips

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You may have heard that John Sawers, the nominal head of MI6, recently stepped out of the shadows in order to tell us all that shadows are actually really cool, and very necessary in a democratic society. Lies are cool too, he said. There was unanimous agreement from the media, naturally.

Here is footage of the event:

This footage may also be of interest:


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A further leaked film showed John Sawers briefing David Cameron on the future of Britain as envisioned by the security elite, making particular reference to the public spending cuts, and the promotion of good old-fashioned private sector initiative in the Central London area :



EDIT: @ Streeb, I only saw the first episode of Red Riding, then neglected to catch up with the rest on the 4OD thing. I wasn't over-impressed with the first episode. That journalist, Dunford, kept shagging everybody, and to such an extent that it actually became distracting. Whenever he met with a witness or a suspect (or found a corpse, for that matter) I could never be entirely sure that he wouldn't end up shagging it - even when he visitted the maniac's wife in the hospital, I had no real certainty that he wouldn't climb into her bed.

I've heard the subsequent episodes were better, and the clip you posted earlier supports what I heard. I will check them out. The Yorkshire Ripper (and Stefan Kiszko) cases were all kinds of strange.

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Leave Mary ALONE!!! She's a good person!!!

I have to admit, it was kind of impressive how he severed her head cleanly without actually taking a swing... just slowly lowering the axe onto the nape of her neck seemed to do the trick no problem. Historical accounts say otherwise, but them's the movies. Those bastards killed my rightful Queen, though, and left us, via a process of elimination and exhaustion, with the current bunch. Mary might not have been entirely sane, or nice, or, um, innocent of premeditated murder, but at least she spent a lot of time in her constituency (albeit mostly under lock and key).

For no other reason than that it is a great scene, of it's kind, from a very underrated film, here is a great scene, which is great, from a very underrated film:

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@ Streeb, I only saw the first episode of Red Riding, then neglected to catch up with the rest on the 4OD thing. I wasn't over-impressed with the first episode. That journalist, Dunford, kept shagging everybody, and to such an extent that it actually became distracting. Whenever he met with a witness or a suspect (or found a corpse, for that matter) I could never be entirely sure that he wouldn't end up shagging it - even when he visitted the maniac's wife in the hospital, I had no real certainty that he wouldn't climb into her bed.

I've heard the subsequent episodes were better, and the clip you posted earlier supports what I heard. I will check them out. The Yorkshire Ripper (and Stefan Kiszko) cases were all kinds of strange.

I've only watched two, and I thought the second wasn't quite as interesting. That's probably why I've been tardy about watching the third. You are not wrong - Dunford is a horny little journo and if there's a weakness in the first episode, it's the superimposition of PLOT everywhere, entirely related to the boy's overworked knob. But there is nothing in the second movie as powerful as the meeting between Dunford and Molloy or that scene in the back of the van. "You see this? This is the North. We do what we want..."

And I only just realized thanks to IMDB that Molloy is played by Warren Clarke, aka Dim from Clockwork Orange, for fuck's sake! Nice to see him on top for once. Since we were never introduced to Dim's proper name, I'm going to imagine that it's the same character with a different accent. He did end up a copper, after all.

The Yorkshire Ripper (and Stefan Kiszko) - I'm frightened to look.

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I've only watched two, and I thought the second wasn't quite as interesting. That's probably why I've been tardy about watching the third. You are not wrong - Dunford is a horny little journo and if there's a weakness in the first episode, it's the superimposition of PLOT everywhere, entirely related to the boy's overworked knob. But there is nothing in the second movie as powerful as the meeting between Dunford and Molloy or that scene in the back of the van. "You see this? This is the North. We do what we want..."

That scene from "And Justice For All" you posted (oops, I meant Laodicean) is absolutely stunning. Haven't seen the film.

Yeah, those scenes in Red Riding were definitely the strongest bits, though I did wonder why, if they wanted Dunford to kill Dawson for them, they smashed his hands up before giving him the gun. Seems a bit self-defeating, though I suppose... it's the North, and they do what they want.

And I only just realized thanks to IMDB that Molloy is played by Warren Clarke, aka Dim from Clockwork Orange, for fuck's sake! Nice to see him on top for once. Since we were never introduced to Dim's proper name, I'm going to imagine that it's the same character with a different accent. He did end up a copper, after all.

Woah, he was Dim?! He was in Dalziel and Pascoe as well, but that's rubbish. I always thought he'd make a good John Self if anyone ever gets round to making a decent version of Martin Amis' "Money", but it seems like nobody ever will. The BBC made a version with Edgar Wright as Self not too long ago... but it was shit.

The Yorkshire Ripper (and Stefan Kiszko) - I'm frightened to look.

Maggie Thatcher had to be dissuaded from personally taking charge of the Ripper investigation. That's how bad it got.

Kiszko hurts to even read about, I don't blame you for not wanting to look at it. The retarded man set up by the police for the child killings in the first episode is based on Stefan Kiszko, possibly with a bit of Timothy Evans thrown in.

Underrated films! Scarecrow!

Skip to 8.40 for a great little bit:



Whole film's on there. It's a warm film, with a horrible end.

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Orphans - it is a good film.

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"There's music, there's magic, the stunts... I'm gonna write an article, let's call it 'Stunt Rock'!"

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