RE: ICL55BC8 Mar 2018 11:08
"I had no idea mate !!!"
Watched too many docu-dramas. ;)
Here is one from Channel 4
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/sep/04/-sp-trade-unions-two-days-one-night-pride
�The miners� strike? What�s that?� �Well it�s a kind of action-love story about a bunch of reds who try and overrun the government.�
At least, that�s what it was according to the Comic Strip�s Strike!, which, a few years after the miners� defeat, rather brilliantly imagined how Hollywood would handle the story. Arthur Scargill is played by �Al Pacino� (actually Peter Richardson with a New York accent even worse than his wig), who has some ideas of his own. �This history of the labour movement speech � it seems kind of misleading,� he tells Alexei Sayle�s beleaguered screenwriter. �You see, I can say all that just by the way I stand.� The facts of the actual strike are jettisoned in favour of a ticking-clock climax whereby Scargill/Pacino must race to parliament on a motorbike and make a tear-jerking speech before the miners blow up Sellafield.
Imagine Che Guevara, or Citizen Smith, with an arm raised in salute, fist clenched, holding a wad of AXM shares.
There, I have just said everything highroller said, just by the way I stand.
Or, to paraphrase Kevin Costner:
If you buy it, they will come.