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<blockquote data-quote="Mel O&#039;Drama" data-source="post: 373345" data-attributes="member: 23"><p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong>The Revengers' Comedies</strong></span> (1998)</p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 18px">a.k.a. Sweet Revenge</span></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"><img src="https://www.pastposters.com/cw3/assets/product_full/JamieR/revengers-comedies-cinema-one-sheet-movie-poster-(2).jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 536px" /></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center">I hadn't heard of this and ahead of watching I scanned enough to know only that it was a <em>Strangers On A Train </em>type plot and included Helena Bonham Carter, Sam Neill and Kristin Scott Thomas.</p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center">As the titles played, the news got better and better for me. Firstly, it transpired this was based on an Alan Ayckbourn play. Then there was the cast, which was a virtual smörgåsbord of familiar names and faces whose work I've enjoyed, some of whom I'd almost forgotten. I'd never have thought some of these would appear in the same project.</p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center">There's Anita Dobson, starting out all posh, like, and ending up screaming hysterically at her daughter and causing a scene by assaulting a man outside a pub. Angie would be proud. Her daughter is Charlotte "Marmalade Atkins" Coleman, who works as a housekeeper beneath reliable old Liz Smith, whose method for getting a greasy kipper stain off Sam Neill's trouser crotch involves so much elbow grease and friction he finds himself fighting a losing battle with his own biology. Devastatingly chiseled Rupert Graves is HBC's dopey-but-sensitive brother. Steve Coogan's here, the object of HBC's murderous intentions and there's a small role from Dicken Ashworth (whose final <em>Brookside</em> episodes I watched just last week) meaning this is a tale of two Alan Partridges. Sadly, the two don't appear in a scene together.</p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center">The main cast are great, too. HBC appears to have great fun playing the unpredictable and slightly fragile upper class type whose disguises range from a plain Jane secretary (complete with fake teeth) to a slutty variation of the same secretary. Sam Neill looks wonderfully out of his depth at times (as he's meant to be). KST does that ice queen thing she's so good at.</p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center">The plot is fun, and the tone nicely quirky in the most eccentrically British kind of way. Almost everyone, as it turns out, has an agenda, so the truth lies where you find it.</p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"><em>The Norman Conquests</em> it isn't, but I'm still very glad to have stumbled upon this one.</p> <p style="text-align: center"></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Oh, interesting. I'd probably never have made that connection between these three, but now you've said I can completely see it.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Thanks. This will save me seeking it out. Incidentally, I see that <em>Dirty Rotten Scoundrels</em> has itself been remade (gender-switched, naturally) as <em>The Hustle</em>. I've only seen the poster but I can't say it grabbed me.</p><p></p><p></p><p>I was intrigued to see that <em>Dirty Rotten Scoundrels</em> was initially written with Bowie and Jagger in mind. John Cleese was considered for Jamieson, while Eddie Murphy and Richard Dreyfuss were mooted for Benson (due to crossed wires, Dreyfuss ended up prepping a reading for the Michael Caine character instead). This kind of background minutiae always adds a bit of interest for me.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mel O'Drama, post: 373345, member: 23"] [CENTER][SIZE=6][B]The Revengers' Comedies[/B][/SIZE] (1998) [SIZE=5]a.k.a. Sweet Revenge[/SIZE] [IMG width="536px"]https://www.pastposters.com/cw3/assets/product_full/JamieR/revengers-comedies-cinema-one-sheet-movie-poster-(2).jpg[/IMG] I hadn't heard of this and ahead of watching I scanned enough to know only that it was a [I]Strangers On A Train [/I]type plot and included Helena Bonham Carter, Sam Neill and Kristin Scott Thomas. As the titles played, the news got better and better for me. Firstly, it transpired this was based on an Alan Ayckbourn play. Then there was the cast, which was a virtual smörgåsbord of familiar names and faces whose work I've enjoyed, some of whom I'd almost forgotten. I'd never have thought some of these would appear in the same project. There's Anita Dobson, starting out all posh, like, and ending up screaming hysterically at her daughter and causing a scene by assaulting a man outside a pub. Angie would be proud. Her daughter is Charlotte "Marmalade Atkins" Coleman, who works as a housekeeper beneath reliable old Liz Smith, whose method for getting a greasy kipper stain off Sam Neill's trouser crotch involves so much elbow grease and friction he finds himself fighting a losing battle with his own biology. Devastatingly chiseled Rupert Graves is HBC's dopey-but-sensitive brother. Steve Coogan's here, the object of HBC's murderous intentions and there's a small role from Dicken Ashworth (whose final [I]Brookside[/I] episodes I watched just last week) meaning this is a tale of two Alan Partridges. Sadly, the two don't appear in a scene together. The main cast are great, too. HBC appears to have great fun playing the unpredictable and slightly fragile upper class type whose disguises range from a plain Jane secretary (complete with fake teeth) to a slutty variation of the same secretary. Sam Neill looks wonderfully out of his depth at times (as he's meant to be). KST does that ice queen thing she's so good at. The plot is fun, and the tone nicely quirky in the most eccentrically British kind of way. Almost everyone, as it turns out, has an agenda, so the truth lies where you find it. [I]The Norman Conquests[/I] it isn't, but I'm still very glad to have stumbled upon this one. [/CENTER] Oh, interesting. I'd probably never have made that connection between these three, but now you've said I can completely see it. Thanks. This will save me seeking it out. Incidentally, I see that [I]Dirty Rotten Scoundrels[/I] has itself been remade (gender-switched, naturally) as [I]The Hustle[/I]. I've only seen the poster but I can't say it grabbed me. I was intrigued to see that [I]Dirty Rotten Scoundrels[/I] was initially written with Bowie and Jagger in mind. John Cleese was considered for Jamieson, while Eddie Murphy and Richard Dreyfuss were mooted for Benson (due to crossed wires, Dreyfuss ended up prepping a reading for the Michael Caine character instead). This kind of background minutiae always adds a bit of interest for me. [/QUOTE]
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