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Richard Attenborough dies at 90
Posted on 8/24/14 at 4:53 pm
Posted on 8/24/14 at 4:53 pm
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Posted on 8/24/14 at 4:57 pm to GCTiger11
RIP
Surprised he didn't direct more often.
Surprised he didn't direct more often.
Posted on 8/24/14 at 5:00 pm to GCTiger11
Velociraptors finally got him?
Posted on 8/24/14 at 5:02 pm to MadMaxwell
quote:
Velociraptors finally got him?
Dinosaurs eat man....woman inherits the earth.
Posted on 8/24/14 at 5:13 pm to GCTiger11
He directed some solid films.
I wonder if he was going to make a cameo in the new JP.
I wonder if he was going to make a cameo in the new JP.
Posted on 8/24/14 at 5:14 pm to GCTiger11
RIP Pinkie
Posted on 8/24/14 at 5:31 pm to GCTiger11
So long Big X.
Posted on 8/24/14 at 5:38 pm to xenythx
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I wonder if he was going to make a cameo in the new JP.
I believe he has been in bad health for a few years now. Just kind of hanging on.
Posted on 8/24/14 at 6:04 pm to MadMaxwell
RIP Mr. Hammond
Posted on 8/24/14 at 6:13 pm to MadMaxwell
nah, it was compys in the book
Posted on 8/24/14 at 6:17 pm to Dr RC
I didn't realize he was still alive
Posted on 8/24/14 at 6:45 pm to Bama9507
Think he was on my death pool this year. Really liked the guy, and I too was surprised to find out he was still alive recently.
RIP.
RIP.
Posted on 8/24/14 at 6:49 pm to Bama9507
quote:Yeah. I was surprised. I think my brain stored Robert Altman's death as being Attenborough.
I didn't realize he was still alive
Posted on 8/24/14 at 6:52 pm to TigerMyth36
Elizabeth was the last movie I can remember watching him in.
Posted on 8/24/14 at 7:41 pm to constant cough
He may have won the Oscar for Gandhi, but A Bridge Too Far was his best movie IMO.
Posted on 8/24/14 at 7:41 pm to GCTiger11
Aww man Santa Claus died
Posted on 8/24/14 at 8:19 pm to GCTiger11
IMHO, RA's finest hour:
An English factory worker crosses the picket line of a wildcat strike, and is "Sent to Coventry" (i.e. given the silent treatment and isolated as an outcast) by the other union members.
That this film was made at all is pretty amazing. The fact that it was made in 1960 Britain, at the height of the featherbedding era, is downright mind-boggling. It dares to show the union membership as less than completely angelic, and one of the characters is a Communist agitator brought in to foment trouble and exploit the situation -- the kind of outside troublemaker invariably shown in other films as working for the company (as in the Paul Muni coal-mining drama of the '30s, Black Fury).
Perhaps most incredible of all, it was produced by that good liberal Richard Attenborough, presenter of such sugary schmaltz as Gandhi.
The Angry Silence is an isolated bit of film history, part of no movement and inspiring no imitations, certainly not in Hollywood -- how many filmmakers would dare portray a union's rank and file as unsympathetic?
An English factory worker crosses the picket line of a wildcat strike, and is "Sent to Coventry" (i.e. given the silent treatment and isolated as an outcast) by the other union members.
That this film was made at all is pretty amazing. The fact that it was made in 1960 Britain, at the height of the featherbedding era, is downright mind-boggling. It dares to show the union membership as less than completely angelic, and one of the characters is a Communist agitator brought in to foment trouble and exploit the situation -- the kind of outside troublemaker invariably shown in other films as working for the company (as in the Paul Muni coal-mining drama of the '30s, Black Fury).
Perhaps most incredible of all, it was produced by that good liberal Richard Attenborough, presenter of such sugary schmaltz as Gandhi.
The Angry Silence is an isolated bit of film history, part of no movement and inspiring no imitations, certainly not in Hollywood -- how many filmmakers would dare portray a union's rank and file as unsympathetic?
Posted on 8/24/14 at 8:30 pm to constant cough
quote:well that's a movie I didn't expect to see mentioned here
RIP Pinkie
The year after Brighton Rock, when RA was 25, he made a film where he convincingly portrayed a 14 year old schoolboy:
Posted on 8/24/14 at 8:38 pm to GCTiger11
This is a bigger loss than robin Williams IMO
Posted on 8/24/14 at 8:53 pm to GCTiger11
His family should hold a big funeral so they can honor him by saying, "We spared no expense."
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