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If I'm reading t'internet correctly, the costume design will be done by my next door but one neighbour.
She's good at that sort of thing.
She's good at that sort of thing.
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Raleigh Chopper
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Nice to see you back on NSC.
Maybe you could settle the discussion on here about where Walmington on sea was supposed to be set, Kent or Sussex.
Many referrals to Eastbourne and but the troop had Kent Invicta badges.
Would be interesting to see if they copy the uniform from the series and maybe the costume designer will have some inside information.
Gazwag
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I always thought it was Bexhill with Eastbourne pier.
For me the big question mark in all this is how the actors are going to be directed.
The actors will want to bring their own interpretation of the characters, yet the audiences will be wanting to see impressions of the originals - which is essentially why all the actors cast look a bit (or in some cases, a lot) like the the original cast.
In the end, nobody - neither cast nor audience - will be entirely satisfied with the end result and everybody will decide that the original was the best because as with many things it is about a time and a place and a chemistry that cannot be recreated.
However, loads of people - including me - will queue up to see it - so the real winners will be the studio and that was probably the whole point all along.
The actors will want to bring their own interpretation of the characters, yet the audiences will be wanting to see impressions of the originals - which is essentially why all the actors cast look a bit (or in some cases, a lot) like the the original cast.
In the end, nobody - neither cast nor audience - will be entirely satisfied with the end result and everybody will decide that the original was the best because as with many things it is about a time and a place and a chemistry that cannot be recreated.
However, loads of people - including me - will queue up to see it - so the real winners will be the studio and that was probably the whole point all along.
100% spot on.
If I was a multi-Oscar award winning actor, commanding $20bn just for reading a script and had studios begging me to star in their movies - I wouldn't touch the Sgt Wilson role with a barge pole. How do you improve on absolute perfection? To even try seems disrespectful.
Bilko remake was terrible!!! Too Cat was closer to the original!
5mins-from-amex
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There have been some pretty awful remakes, one of the worst was Richard Burton and Sophia Loren trying to recreate "Brief Encounter" in the mid 1970's.
Most of it was filmed in East Anglia though.. there was a famous shot at the end of the film when they're on Beachy Head though..or was it Seaford Head?
Gazwag
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Not where it was filmed the place it was based on. Looking at fictitious maps there are a lot of similarities to bexhill. Galley Hill on the right hand side, the main street going up a hill from the sea front etc.
The outside scenes were definitely filmed in Thetford, Norfolk.
I've been to the Museum there and its also mentioned ina number of books.
one of the biggest problems for them was getting them access to houses to tape up the windows. They got round this by putting a reel of tape through the letter box along with a pound note and this seemed to get done.
No worries.
I assumed you were referring to the actual belief that the programme was cursed in that the cast died young.
Whenever a cast member dies, the press will go on and on about only Ian Lavendar being left etc.. etc...
The only one who died young was Private Walker. I think it's also influenced by the fact that John Le Mesurier carried on playing the part when he was obviously very ill.
The show's curse was a long running theme in the earlier days of Viz.
Think it was Seaford Head but only in the end titles of the Black and White episodes.
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The only problem I see is that the only character that Bill Nighy can play is Bill Nighy. Granted, he does it well, and in most films it works, but not a great character actor. I couldn't tell you the name of literally any of his characters in any films I've seen him in, I just think "Bill Nighy"
Leekbrookgull
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Some of the trains scenes were 'shot' at Weybourne.
Leekbrookgull
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However in one episode the disembark from a train turn Left at the platform end onto the road (or was it right) three left or right turns later back at the station,doesnt look like Weybourne ?
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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062552/locations
St. David's Church Hall, Brighton, East Sussex, England, UK
Training Stables, Brighton Racecourse, East Sussex, England, UK
St. David's Church Hall, Brighton, East Sussex, England, UK
Training Stables, Brighton Racecourse, East Sussex, England, UK
Sure. The problem with modern actors is that many are put on a pedestal to the extent that you end for example going to see The Bill Nighy show rather than the character, so it's difficult to get totally absorbed in the plot and charters. That's why compelling TV dramas are better without house hold names.