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Post by jamie on Sept 5, 2004 9:41:39 GMT
Did anyone watch this yesterday? I videod it and am watching it now. It's rather good. Caroline Quentin is just about convincing.
Is there another part to it?
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Post by David Hunter on Sept 5, 2004 10:30:44 GMT
No that's it I'm afraid. I rather enjoyed it although it had a bit of an abrupt ending and they could have used more of the original songs. Suppose it was a matter of copyright though. Nice to see Una Stubbs in something again although for me I'll always see her dancing wildly on a double decker bus and she always acts like Aunt Sally. The girl who played the transgendered daughter reminded me of Tilda Swinton in Orlando and I'm sure fooled no one that she was a boy. Nice twist though.
Radio Times annoyed me by saying the programme couldn't decide if it was a rom com, drama or whatever. Can't they just enjoy things for what they are without having to categorise everything?
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Post by Robbing the Dead on Sept 5, 2004 17:11:15 GMT
I thought it was great. I've never seen the Sound of Music, but I now have an urge to.
*Do a dear, a female dear, Re a drop of golden, Me dum de dum de dum*
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Post by frap on Sept 5, 2004 23:46:16 GMT
Doh, a deer, a female deer, Re, a drop of golden sun, Mi, a name I call myself, Fah, a long long way to run - So, a needle pulling thread - La - a note to follow so, Ti, a drink with jam and bread ... that will bring us back to Doh Doh Doh Doh...oh! Repeat x1 .... that will bring us back to Doh Doh Re Mi Fah So La Ti Doh! So Doh! I thought it was great. I've never seen the Sound of Music, but I now have an urge to. *Do a dear, a female dear, Re a drop of golden, Me dum de dum de dum* |
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Post by mikemk on Sept 6, 2004 11:55:02 GMT
Damn it. I've just run up a pair of lederhosen from the curtains in my office before I could stop myself.
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Post by Robbing the Dead on Sept 6, 2004 13:01:28 GMT
"The hiiills are alive with the sound of music...."
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Post by TrixieFirecracker on Sept 6, 2004 16:44:45 GMT
I have it on tape and have yet to watch it, but love The Sound Of Music so am anticipating great things. She said in an interview she'd never even seen the film as she'd found it too long. I've said similar about films like Dances With Wolves <Zzzzzzzzz>, but to have never seen The Sound Of Music then go on to make out to the British public that she is an obssessive is wrong (I know it's TV, but folk are suggestible) and I've decided, Caroline Quentin, I don't think I like you anymore.
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Post by Annette on Sept 7, 2004 11:06:58 GMT
Damn it. I've just run up a pair of lederhosen from the curtains in my office before I could stop myself. Please post photos of you wearing them! How can anyone have not seen The Sound Of Music? The mind boggles! This was rather enjoyable, makes a change to have something fairly decent to watch on a Saturday night. The son being a girl was obvious straight away, but I didn't see the reason for the jilting coming. |
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Post by mikemk on Sept 7, 2004 11:24:59 GMT
Please post photos of you wearing them! How can anyone have not seen The Sound Of Music? The mind boggles! Trying to find an amusing photograph of someone else wearing lederhosen (I do have the legs to carry a pair off, though) I discovered that there is a lederhosen museum online. Inexplicably the English content is offline at the moment, and I can only assume that Von Trapped has led to an enormous increase in English interest in them which has flooded the servers. (As a complete aside, we walked round the Alhambra palace in Granada last year accompanied by an entire coachload of young men all wearing lederhosen and a group of Polish sailors all in uniform. I felt so underdressed). Quentin was lying to sound cool. Everyone on the planet has seen it. Twice. But not as many times as that woman from Cardiff who was in The Guinness Book of Records for watching it over a million times. |
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Post by Robbing the Dead on Sept 7, 2004 11:43:20 GMT
How can anyone have not seen The Sound Of Music? The mind boggles! I'm a rubbish gay. I'll ask my mum to rent it to the library. That could also be considered as coming out, but she's too naive. She doesn't even know what the rainbow flag is for. I saw the advert for the next Trapped. It's like beauty and the beast, with Martin Clunes made up to be even more ugly. |
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Post by Annette on Sept 7, 2004 11:46:14 GMT
Trying to find an amusing photograph of someone else wearing lederhosen  Quentin's a fool!! They should put The Sound Of Music on the national curriculum and make kids study it for O levels GCSEs. |
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Post by Annette on Sept 7, 2004 11:48:36 GMT
I saw the advert for the next Trapped. It's like beauty and the beast, with Martin Clunes made up to be even more ugly. Is that even possible? Talking of which, Hell Boy made me all nostalgic for Beauty and the Beast, with Ron Perlman and Linda Hamilton. Anyway, back on topic, I can play Doh A Deer on the recorder. Go me! |
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Post by David Hunter on Sept 7, 2004 13:16:56 GMT
I'm a rubbish gay. I'll ask my mum to rent it to the library. That could also be considered as coming out, but she's too naive. She doesn't even know what the rainbow flag is for. Yes for years I thought it meant a big sale at C&As! |
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Post by Gary Gillatt on Sept 7, 2004 15:01:47 GMT
I'm a rubbish gay. I'll ask my mum to rent it to the library. That could also be considered as coming out, but she's too naive. She doesn't even know what the rainbow flag is for. I've always wondered, when did the rainbow flag take over from the pink triangle as the gay motif of choice? Was the there a global branding consultation? Were some American gays concerned that the traingle had "non-positive customer association with the Holocaust", or were the rights to rainbow-oriented fun being offered cheaply by Carlton TV and Geoffrey Hayes? The change from pink to rainbow seemed to happen overnight, in a Jif-to-Cif Stalinist expungement, but perhaps I just wasn't getting out much at the time. By the by, I've just been writing about the last of the 'Trapped' plays, King Of Fridges, for Inside The Soaps. It sounds good, and features Richard Wilson and Mark Benton - who also has a big role in Doctor Who next year. G x |
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Post by mikemk on Sept 7, 2004 15:08:22 GMT
I've always wondered, when did the rainbow flag take over from the pink triangle as the gay motif of choice? I always thought this came about at the same time as gay became Lesbian, Gay and Transexual, to be more inclusive. |
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Post by David Hunter on Sept 7, 2004 15:25:49 GMT
Everything you need to know about rainbow flags! flagspot.net/flags/sex-rb.htmlI love the way every discussion ends up as a gay themed tag, although I suppose with a Sound of Music thread how could anything else happen? |
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Post by Gary Gillatt on Sept 7, 2004 15:42:53 GMT
It says... "In 1978, Gilbert Baker of San Francisco designed and made a flag with six stripes representing the six colors of the rainbow as a symbol of gay and lesbian community pride." Six? Those crazy gays. Couldn't they remember the last colour? GAY 1: Oh, Phillip. I can't recall the rainbow. How does that useful rhyme go again? Richard Of York Gave Battle In... GAY 2: Vain GAY 1: How *dare* you? You're the one who spent £50 in Toni And Guy last week. Just because I have a proper moisturising regime, it doesn't mean I... (etc) |
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Post by David Hunter on Sept 7, 2004 17:08:14 GMT
Well, like bisexuality, Indigo and Violet have always been a rather grey area!
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Post by Gary Gillatt on Sept 8, 2004 8:22:25 GMT
Well, like bisexuality, Indigo and Violet have always been a rather grey area! I prefer to just lilac, and think of England. G x |
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Post by mikemk on Sept 8, 2004 8:41:16 GMT
*groans*
But you are forgiven following your rainbow flag scenario.
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Post by Robbing the Dead on Sept 8, 2004 10:59:51 GMT
I always thought this came about at the same time as gay became Lesbian, Gay and Transexual, to be more inclusive. Wasn't the pink triangle the symbol the nazis put on gayers in the concentration camps? |
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Post by mikemk on Sept 8, 2004 11:27:47 GMT
Yes, each group had their "own" colour - Jews, gays, gypsies, Communists etc. The gays were given pink triangles (although I don't know if pink was seen as a gay colour beforehand, or because of this) to wear at all times, not just in the concentration camps.
The majority of Berlin's gay community (almost certainly the biggest in Europe at the time) was sent to Sachsenhausen concentration camp just north of Berlin, which is still there and remarkably well preserved. If anyone is in Berlin, go: it is a terrifying and soul-destroying place, but you have to see it.
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Post by zaffra on Sept 8, 2004 12:46:08 GMT
A pedant writes...
I don't think there were any 'gays' until the early 50's, the pink triangle symbol was used for deviants, and though that was mainly gay men, it covered an array of people the Nazi's wanted to persecute.
With gay liberation it (the pink tringle) was claimed back in the early 70's, Rainbow flags have been counter culture symbols since the early 70's as well, but are also favoured by Christians (particularly the happy clappy type).
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