English Films..What Do Poles Think of Them?

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Edited by: SidWolf Oct 4, 10, 12:26 #31

Teffle:

You have to look at the bigger picture with the music though Sid - not just the last 15 years or so!

IMO England really excels at two particular type of comedy - the surreal (From Goons & Python via young ones & Not the Nine O'clock News right through to Spaced & Peep show) & the grotesque/cringeworthy (Alf Garnet through Basil Fawlty & Rigby to Alan Partridge & David Brent)

You're quite right about British culture generally in the last half of the 20th C, but my point is that it's moving elsewhere at the moment. I still think the comedy monopoly will remain British though. We also make excellent documentaries, and the BBC is a fine institution that invests a lot into pretty much every type of media possible, so it's not going to die anytime soon.

I completely agree with what you say about comedy too, we have a great comic tradition (in addition to Python; Nt9ocN, Peep Show and Alan Partridge are personal favourites).

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Oct 4, 10, 17:53 #32

nott:

Blackadder, a small gem, a bit sentimental.

Don't understand this - are you maybe referring to series 4, the one set during WW1? If so, there was a certian poignancy to the end, yes, but in general Blackadder wasn't sentimental at all really?!

Benny Hill, hm... more like German...

Personally, I hated it. He probably had as many critics as fans and I can understand the German comparison. Still, for basic slapstick even if it isn't at all clever, the English still managed to create almost a blueprint with Benny!

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Oct 4, 10, 18:51 #33

Teffle:

nott:
Blackadder, a small gem, a bit sentimental.

Don't understand this - are you maybe referring to ...

Geez, I didn't even know there'd been a whole series. Now I checked, I was referring to Blackadder's Christmas Carol, TV film from 1988. Thanks for this little bit of education.

Teffle:

the English still managed to create almost a blueprint with Benny!

That's true, mister. Stupid as it was, it had that something, only it's not my genre.

This having said... Flip&Flap I watch smiling, not sneering...

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