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A Field in England TWR
From: william (WILLIAMA)
21 Sep 2017 18:07
To: CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)
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Discovered I had
A field in England
tucked away on my little server so I watched it again this morning. Considering that apart from a (very) brief appearance by Julian Barratt playing a character who is quickly speared and then shot, the entire cast is 5 men and 1 field, it's a fucking amazing little film.
I've read a fair bit about the influences, but I wonder if either Wheatley or the writer Sarah Jupp had read Susanna Clarke's Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell, which predates this by a few years. Although the film and Clarke's book are set in widely different times, they both have a sense that magic was an oddly domestic thing, almost normal.
From: CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)
21 Sep 2017 18:34
To: william (WILLIAMA)
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One of the more interesting concepts in the film is stuff that [presumably] is going on out of view -- the pitched battle happening over the hedge, whatever the alchemist is doing inside the little white tent.
Amazing.
From: william (WILLIAMA)
21 Sep 2017 20:45
To: CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)
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That's true. Usually when a production goes for very 'spare' effects - it fails. Here we had some not-very-big pyrotechnics, a bit of smoke, and a soundtrack of cries. All of this was set against, or behind, an odd old-fashioned style of overgrown hedge. The result was bizarre. I never for a moment doubted that the cast was at risk from a battle somewhere. At the same time it all happened in a world strangely disconnected from them, behind the hedge. Very nicely done.
From: Manthorp
25 Sep 2017 19:04
To: william (WILLIAMA)
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The cultural predecessors are O.L.D. telly productions: Penda's Fen (especially) and Robin Redbreast, plus arguably A Photograph. I'm resolutely pushing British Eerie as the collective term of choice.
EDITED: 25 Sep 2017 19:09 by MANTHORP
From: CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)
25 Sep 2017 21:32
To: Manthorp
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Would Neil Gaiman's
The Ocean At The End Of The Lane
(which I just finished reading) fit?
From: Manthorp
26 Sep 2017 12:36
To: CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)
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I haven't read it: I'll give it a go.