Just to expand on the points of the Harry Brown review Kevin gave me a link to this interview. A Money quote is this:
Michael Caine: It was scary because I didn’t realize quite how dangerous it all was. There, now, instead of alcohol and a fist fight and getting a broken nose, now you’ll get shot or knifed. You have people that have no idea what they are doing because they are so drugged up to their eyeballs, and you could say they’d never do that, but of course they do because you don’t know they’re high. It was extremely dangerous. One of the minor, silly things is that we would do daylight shots with dialogue, and it became a nuisance because every time we shot a shot there was a police siren. All day long, in the daylight on a sunny Wednesday afternoon, we kept having to reshoot.
Odd, I thought MASSIVE gun control and granting the moon and the stars to police as powers over individual rights made people safer.
Its almost like the progress “Progressives” talk about is the world of Harry Brown.
Thanks, I’ll live my life in a movie that’s too fucking boring for anybody put to film! Massachusetts is bad, but at least it isn’t London bad!
They should have rolled with it. Having police sirens in the background would have lent authenticity.
Most depressing double feature: “A Clockwork Orange” and “Harry Brown.”
Most of what I read about the UK these days tells me that the world imagined in the first film has become a reality.