The Review Show - The Song Of Lunch
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- Опубликовано: 8 окт 2010
- Germaine Greer, Rosie Boycott, China Mieville and John Mullan mark National Poetry Day with a review of The Song of Lunch - a new TV dramatisation, starring Alan Rickman & Emma Thompson, of Christopher Reid's poem, screened on BBC Two earlier in the evening.
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I would love to hear that woman speak free verse 1/10 as magnificently as Alan Rickman does it!!
I hope she is talking about his character... :/
Truly, without those two actors, this would have just been self-indulgent tripe.
Well, I thought it was wonderful. It's a very special poem to me.
Exactly it would have been stilted and unrealistic. I admit though one could be completely unaware it was a "poem". When you see the way it is written it's much more obvious it's poetry.
@emilyannethorne
EXACTLY! This was a short film about the truth of life, how we try to resist change and eventually realize that resisting change will get us trapped in a certain state of mind. For a film to be successful, it doesn't have to be unpredictable. Rickman is a successful and talented actor beacuse his films convey such universal truths.
In the words of Oscar Wilde, "The things the world calls immoral are the things that show the world its own shame."
Greer has lived in it for a long long time. I understand where she's coming from, but won't agree with what she says. I think it was a good attempt. And I think Rickman appreciates literature enough to know what he's doing, so I guess it's only fair that I don't pay much attention to people who can't actually create but find it easy to analyse and butcher creators. No offence to Greer lovers, but there has to be a limit. She seems a bit arrogant here.
LOL don't hold back Germaine, we're not sure what you think of it... Thanks for uploading, I hadn't seen this. Funny that they seem to be strictly reviewing this as a poem and piece of literature and not a drama. As for their performances only the one lady says "Rickman is brilliant". Well he was.
jump off the roof? the very fact that she wanted so passionately for him to jump off the roof proves the success of the piece. in some hollywood movie he would indeed consider jumping off the roof, if not actually do it, but this is not hollywood blabber. this is the story of a real man.
do something less easily translatable? right, because making a film out of some abstract piece of modern "poetry" would certainly have made for a good BBC film.
i'm sorry but these "experts" are just pompous, self-important NOOBS.
it's too predictable? obviously! this is the narrative of real life, and real life is more often than not plainly, excruciatingly predictable. this film succeeds because it's full of the painful truth, not because it's some mystery novel for Christ's sake!
honestly the sheer density of these reviewers (with the exception of the first chap, who seems to possess some reason) is both laughable and enraging all at once.
I have always found Germaine Greer a bit too pompous and annoying. Now I just hate plain hate her. But that's the fault with academics. I just finished my study at grad school in literature- and I'll tell you one thing- most academics live in an ivory tower, but it's a nasty place mind you. They are weighed down by the past, by rules and structures and theories and hold on to them for dear life. It's a sad existence, and