Is there no thread for 'The Long Good Friday'? And if so do I have to start one just because there are plans to remakie it?

so, is this film being remade or what?

paul ws anderson? i've shit 'im!

so this never happened then? Harold really is a horrible little bastard isn't he? he seemed completely unsympathetic last time i saw it, never thought that before.

he's a nice little chap who probably loves his mum

only machetes his own iirc

I love this movie.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JP41S-jUHKI/VTEprayXHSI/AAAAAAAAGnc/DITcI5BKxlg/s1600/long1.jpg

The upcoming release of the Arrow Blu-ray restoration will also contain John Mackenzie's notorious 1970s Public Information Film, Apaches!

http://twistedwing.blogspot.co.uk/2015/04/news-long-good-fridaymona-lisa-on-blu.html

just watched last year; good

u guys hear this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGvpv4uhwxs

something that i only discovered (via IMDB) recently; !SPOILER! Razors is in the car at the end, dead.

also there's a brilliant old NEON mag article here

https://neonmagazinescans.wordpress.com/2010/10/18/flashback-1981-the-long-good-friday/1/

wait so who set up the IRA

just watched this obv, classic

pls anyone is this actually covered and i missed it or is it just a "deal with it" item

the UDR, SAS, RUC in league with the UDA set up the IRA of course - collusion is not an illusion

real answer: it's just a "deal with it" item, isn't it?

pierce brosnan too handsome to be a provo

thats p much what i had worked it out as yeah

he is, but they made the others ugly enough to balance

there is some hilarious dialogue in there with some real colourful and creative swearing. streak of paralyzed piss!. erm.. the bit where he says the guy's arsehole is 50 ft away from his teeth and choirboys are playing hunt the thimble.

MIND ME GRIEF

Absolutely no way this movie wasn’t a big influence for Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace.

maybe? but not half as much of an influence as, for example, the books of James Herbert

Garth's whole look is James Herbert basically

I watched this again recently, and I don't know if this is a cliched observation, but it kind of has the structure of a farce or a sitcom episode, specifically the standard sitcom plot where the boss/vicar/someone important comes round for dinner and everything goes embarrassingly wrong and needs to be awkwardly smoothed over. Love the bit where they're driving towards the pub to have dinner and Bob Hoskins is giving this obsequious little speech about what a nice meal they're going to have and then the pub blows up in front of them.

Unproduced sequel

Barrie Keeffe wrote a sequel, Black Easter Monday, set 20 years after the events of the first film. It opened with Bob Hoskins's character; Harold Shand, escaping from the IRA after the car was pulled over by police. Shand would retire to Jamaica, then return to stop the East End being taken over by the Yardies.[10] However, the film was never made.

this was bizarre to me when I found out about given how iconic the ending is.

found out about it

there's some interesting/odd stuff in the imdb trivia page for this film as well

Bob Hoskins' voice was dubbed over by a Wolverhampton actor, for fear Americans wouldn't understand his London accent. After Hoskins threatened to sue Jack Gill and British Lion (the original producers before HandMade bought the rights), the dubbing was removed. He was supported by Richard Burton, Sir Alec Guinness, and Warren Beatty.

In the scene where Harold Shand (Bob Hoskins) and Razors (P.H. Moriarty) enter the town hall building to confront Councillor Harris (Bryan Marshall), an additional scene was filmed when both characters enter Harris' office. This deleted scene is included in 'the long good friday' published script, but the filmed footage has never been included in any authorized released version of this movie, and is believed lost. In the foreword to the published script, Screenwriter Barrie Keeffe bitterly regretted this scene being deleted by the producers for length reasons, as he claimed it was his favorite scene of the entire movie.

I've not read the script of the deleted scene, but I like the way in the movie that it cuts straight from Hoskins and P.H. Moriarty chatting with the town hall attendant who shows them to Bryan Marshall's office about what a nice man the councillor is, then cuts away as they go into the office without you even seeing Marshall or what they do to him

no accent is more internationally understandable than Wolverhampton

lol

Arrow are putting out a new version next month - https://www.arrowfilms.com/the-long-good-friday-limited-edition-4k-uhd/15244572.html

Oops, in May, not March

finally saw this, loved it, but had a hard time following a lot of the Brit slang, though that was a feature more than a bug for me. humorously the closed captioning on Max said "inaudible" for about 20% of the dialogue.

feel like they ended it the only way it made any sense to. only question I had - the three IRA top men who got offed, it was established that this was a coincidence that got Hoskins blamed, or were we to believe Jeff/Harris/Colin had any involvement in it? I felt it was the former but wasn't 100%.

Pierce Brosnan was a looker in dis ting.

Saw this on the big screen a couple of days ago. What a tour de force, honestly, especially for Bob Hoskins.

The part when he staggers off his yacht, blood stains on his shirt, having just done a very bad thing, and Helen Mirren intercepts him in the middle of his blind rage and stops him cold and forces him to get a grip on himself is just fucking amazing.

Wrt Neanderthal’s question yeah I reckon the three killings were not a thing that Jeff anticipated although he was a “Judas” vis a vis Shand.