Finding George Orwell's voice - actor Ronald Pickup talks about playing the author on Jura
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- Опубликовано: 11 окт 2020
- Showered with praise and award nominations, The Crystal Spirit: Orwell on Jura is arguably the best of the George Orwell biopics. Written by Alan Plater and shot on location in the Hebrides, off the west coast of Scotland, this 1983 BBC drama focuses on the summers of 1946-48, when the author retreated to a remote farmhouse to write 1984. Having toyed with the idea of casting John Cleese as Orwell, the producer and director chose Ronald Pickup, whose outstanding performance earned him a Bafta nomination for best actor. David Ryan, author of George Orwell on Screen, interviewed him on camera in London while researching the book in 2016.
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If you're in the UK, you can see The Crystal Spirit at a BFI Mediatheque.
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RIP Ronald Pickup.
I was there on Jura when this was filmed. I was actually in the film driving a wartime Humber Snipe. I stayed at the same hotel as the actors including Ronald Pickup.
The BBC hired the car from a classic car collection that I worked for.
I think it was George Orwell’s wife or a female actor that was supposed to drive the car but they had problems so they dressed me up in a coat and headscarf and had me drive it along the rough road.
I had a fantastic experience on Jura as an 18 year old.
Great to come across this 👍
I'd love to watch this film.
I remember watching this and thinking maybe I should be taping it - have not found a copy anywhere
Thank you for sharing this. Cannot believe it has so few views, especially as we are literally living through virtually everything Orwell predicted right now.
John Doe Oh dear. Have you genuinely no idea how naive that comment is? Have you read Huxley’s letter? Have you even read the book?
Did it take an entire tub of Vaseline to get your head up there, or are you so comfortable with that stance it fits like a glove? That’s a rhetorical question.
John Doe George Orwell on why he wrote 1984:
“I must say I believe, or fear, that taking the world as a whole these things are on the increase. Hitler, no doubt, will soon disappear, but only at the expense of strengthening (a) Stalin, (b) the Anglo-American millionaires and (c) all sorts of petty fuhrers of the type of de Gaulle. All the national movements everywhere, even those that originate in resistance to German domination, seem to take non-democratic forms, to group themselves round some superhuman fuhrer (Hitler, Stalin, Salazar, Franco, Gandhi, De Valera are all varying examples) and to adopt the theory that the end justifies the means. Everywhere the world movement seems to be in the direction of centralised economies which can be made to ‘work’ in an economic sense but which are not democratically organised and which tend to establish a caste system. With this go the horrors of emotional nationalism and a tendency to disbelieve in the existence of objective truth because all the facts have to fit in with the words and prophecies of some infallible fuhrer. “
Writing specifically in respect to his PREDICTIONS ABOUT FUTURE EVENTS.
I first read 1984 47 years ago, and I’ve read it and everything Orwell ever wrote several times since.
Never try to argue a baseless point from a position of ignorance.
@ G58
Complete drivel !! Get a grip FFS !
great channel
Do you know if the BBC scrubbed this from its archives? It seems weird that it has never been released on DVD or, to the best of my knowledge, been repeated/streamed anywhere.
It exists, and last time I looked it was available to watch at the BFI's Mediatheque screening rooms. The Educational Recording Agency streams it online, but only to schools, colleges and universities. I don't have a copy of it. I think the fact that it was a German co-production might have complicated the copyright side of things.
@@culturewarp Thanks for the reply. Appreciated.