Movie MarauderConfessions: Withnail and I - Your Feedback Required!
May 2nd 2008 06:20
I have no idea why this man is so happy.
While talking to some friends about film recently, I mentioned I had not seen ‘Withnail and I’. This was received with several gasps of shock. The general response was that it was surprising that someone who loved film as much as I did hadn’t seen this film. When I blurted out my unfamiliarity with the film, I had no idea that ‘Withnail’ was considered one of those films (I’m still not convinced). You know, those things that people are expected to know if they want to chat to the adults about big boy subjects. Of course these things come in degrees. In literature, your baseline expectation might be that to qualify as a fan of ‘Literary Fiction’ you would have read some Ian McEwan. For ‘Fine Literature’ you must have digested some Nabokov, Woolf, and a fair bit of 19th century lit (Zola, Dostoyevsky et al.). There are always those though who feel that one who has not read a classical work in its original language is not qualified to touch the patch on their corduroy jacket.
"Woolf? Ho hum. Have you read the Enuma Elis in the original Akkadian?"
So I’m interested in hearing what thoughts people have about what makes a cinephile? Or, what films have you not gotten a chance to see yet, but you should really be familiar with? I’ll get the ball rolling…Along with 'Withnail' I have not yet had a chance to see 'Sunset Boulevard'.
A friend of mine is going to have a showing of ‘Withnail’ so I can see it finally. Apparently you can apply some drinking games to it so this may be a liver battering experience. I’ll update after I have properly digested this ‘classic’.
So, he's drunk right?
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The drinking game is to match Withnail, drink for drink. Good luck...
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My favourite comedy of all time.
If I was to teach film analysis I would use the screenplay as a textcase study, it is that good.
I've met Richard E. Grant and I gushed.
I own two different editions of it on DVD.
Richard E. Grant gives the finest performance of a drunkard in cinema ... and he's a teetotaller!!!
Richard Griffiths gives one of the finest performances of a middle aged queen in cinema (the other being Nathan Lane in The Birdcage).
I love this film. Love it.
But you know ... funny, but I've never played the drinking game.
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