#alan buttershaw

[pocketofpencils]

Chapters: 35/? Fandom: Last Tango In Halifax, Collateral (TV 2018) Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Caroline McKenzie-Dawson/Jane Oliver Characters: Caroline McKenzie-Dawson, Jane Oliver, Gillian Greenwood, Celia Dawson, Alan Buttershaw

ok? ok! 

[weshallc]

Last Tango in Halifax: Alan and Gillian Buttershaw.

These two so remind me of me and my dad.

BTW: Expect sales of Daily Mail to rise after today's nationwide downloading of Government brainwashing device. 😉🤨😝

[pinkfloralcake]

“i'm terrified that i'm not going to last five minutes at this new place, i'm terrified that they're going to eat me alive.

“no-one could eat you alive.”

”no, i know.”

“dont they know theres a war on? i mean thats not even mentioned!”

[sarahlancashire2]

@sarahlancashire2 ❤️

Stayed at Shibden Mill Inn in Halifax, a few weeks ago.

Here are a few scenes from Last Tango in Halifax - Christmas Special. 😊

[peach-blossom-spring]

Orals studying: read own long-winded notes aloud in bad, vague British accent 

[carolrance]

Tagged by the lovely: @sailorpeachh, thank you!

Rules: Tell me your favorite character from 10 fictional works (shows, movies, novels etc.) and tag 10 people.

These are in no particular order!

Michelle Richardson (Skins)

Doreah (Game of Thrones/ASOIAF)

Carol Rance (Episodes)

Meg Manning (Veronica Mars)

Dana Scully (The X Files)

Beth Latimer (Broadchurch)

Quinn King (Unreal)

Catherine Cawood (Happy Valley)

Amanda Rollins (SVU)

Lauren Lewis (Lost Girl)

Honorable mentions: Niska Elster (Humans), Clementine Pennyfeather (Westworld), Lou Foster (Lip Service), Madeline Mackenzie (Big Little Lies), Celeste Wright (Big Little Lies), Naomi Campbell (Skins), Ellie Miller (Broadchurch), Olivia Benson (SVU), Fin Tutuola (SVU), all the nurses and nuns in Call the Midwife, Alex Kelly (The O.C.), Liv Malone (Skins), Effy Stonem (Skins), Chris Miles (Skins), okay a lot of Skins kids, Johanna Mason (The Hunger Games), April Ludgate (Parks and Rec), Kenzi Malikova (Lost Girl), Margaery Tyrell (ASOIAF/GoT), Mia Elster (Humans), Lindsay Denton (Line of Duty), Alan Buttershaw (Last Tango in Halifax), Lillian Depaul (Masters of Sex), Faith (Unreal), Oregon Shawcross (Fresh Meat), Ygritte (ASOIAF/GoT), Juliette Barnes (Nashville), Margaret Wells (Harlots), Allison Cameron (House M.D.), the dog in every TV show. I’m sure I’m missing some.

I tag: @lazarusgirl @gablehood and anyone else! Only do it if you have time or want to!

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Image copyright Bradford UNESCO City of Film

Image caption Rita, Sue and Bob Too depicted life on a Bradford estate in a darkly comic tale

Billed as “Thatcher’s Britain with her knickers down”, British film comedy Rita, Sue and Bob Too was an unexpected hit when it was released 30 years ago. This darkly comic tale of two sexually confident working-class Bradford teenagers might have charmed the critics – but many closer to home failed to see the joke.

Originally written for the stage in 1982 by Andrea Dunbar, the story depicted life on the deprived Buttershaw estate where she grew up – and did not flinch from its portrayal of alcoholism, violence, poverty and a feckless benefit culture.

The film featured teenage babysitters Rita (Siobhan Finneran) and Sue (Michelle Holmes), who both partially escaped from their lives on the estate by having an affair with married man Bob (George Costigan) who lived in a detached house in a smarter part of city.

It was an incendiary mixture.

Image copyright Stanley Bielecki Movie Collection

Image caption The film was thought to reinforce negative stereotypes by some viewers

Tony Earnshaw, author of Made in Yorkshire, a study of filmmaking in the county, was one of the many who reacted badly to the Alan Clarke-directed film when he first saw it as a teenager.

The city was attempting to repair a poor public image – and the film was seen by many as reinforcing negative stereotypes.

“I didn’t like it at the time, I wasn’t mature enough to appreciate it,” the author said. “I am a working-class lad and I was angry about how it misrepresented Yorkshire. I thought its makers were laughing at us.”

Such apparent sensitivity needs to be set against the backdrop of the time.

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Image caption The city of Bradford had taken a battering before the film was released

Bradford’s image had taken a battering in the 1980s: it had lost traditional industries and jobs, there were fierce arguments about race and education, and the city suffered one of the worst British stadium tragedies when 56 football fans perished in the 1985 Valley Parade fire.

And then, of course, there was Bradford’s most notorious son, Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper, whose murderous campaign was finally halted by his chance arrest in 1981.

The city had tried to lift collective spirits with Bradford’s Bouncing Back, a feel-good marketing campaign launched in 1986, featuring a special poster by Bradford Grammar School alumnus David Hockney.

Into this mix came the 1987 film, described by that doyen of film critics Roger Ebert as “a bleak, sardonic comedy about the violation of a taboo”.

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Image caption The play and film made Dunbar and the estate the focus of often unwelcome publicity

Image copyright Alamy

Image caption Michelle Holmes (Sue) said the film was ‘a snapshot of an age’

Adelle Stripe, who has written a novel based on Dunbar’s short life – the playwright died of a brain haemorrhage at the age of 29 in 1990 – said the film “really poured oil on the fire”.

“She [Dunbar] wrote her first play when she was 15 years old, she’d never been to the theatre, and this is what is remarkable about her: she dramatised what was happening in her life at the time, and was encouraged by her teachers at Buttershaw Upper School.”

Dunbar was asked whether the play was based on personal experiences by the BBC in 1987.

“Parts of it was, parts wasn’t – but you see things happening on an estate anyway,” she said.

“But if you grow up on an estate, live there, you know everybody and I don’t find it shocking to write about it.”

Image caption Andrea Dunbar was interviewed by the BBC in 1987 about the film

The play and film made Dunbar and the estate the focus of often unwelcome publicity, Ms Stripe says.

“She got a lot of negative press. Press cuttings of the time always mention she was an unmarried mother with three children. Not a big deal for us in 2017 but she took a lot of flak for it then.

“She liked having a drink… because you’re working class and live on a council estate it therefore becomes a stick to beat her with. It was double standards, really.”

David Wilson, who is the director of Bradford’s City of Film programme, points out Bradford has undergone huge changes since the 1980s.

“Buttershaw is a different place now, some of the buildings and the low-rise flats on the estate have gone,” he said.

“We have moved on and often changed beyond all recognition.

“But you can look back with a nostalgic view on the film, which was a social commentary that did not skirt some difficult issues.”

Image copyright Alamy

Image caption The Buttershaw estate has been regenerated in recent years

Mr Wilson believes Rita, Sue and Bob Too has many parallels with another film, the 1959 northern kitchen-sink drama Room at the Top. There were calls for that movie to be banned and it was given an X-rated certificate. Now it is widely praised as a classic British film, he said.

He has recently rewatched Rita, Sue and Bob Too and was struck by the nostalgic fashions, furniture and architecture.

Most importantly for him “it inspired another generation of filmmakers and, creatively, it has not hindered Bradford at all”.

This is a view that would most likely be shared by many Bradfordians, even those who were uneasy about the film on its release.

Tony Earnshaw, certainly, says he feels very differently about Rita, Sue and Bob Too than he did as a teenager.

“I’ve come to realise it is a very accurate portrait of life,” he said.

“There’s a joie de vivre; the characters are not trying to escape from their lives, they are happy and don’t aspire to anything more.

“It’s a celebration of a certain strata of society. It occupies its own space in time.”

Michelle Holmes, who played Sue, recalls the making of the film fondly.

“We had a brilliant, brilliant time, seven weeks of absolute fun,” she said.

“It is crazy: who would have thought every single day somebody says something to me about the film? That’s what I find incredible about it.

“Now it is a snapshot of an age and it seems to have more resonance.”

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'Fancy A Jump?' BFI Releasing Alan Clarke's Rita, Sue And Bob Too On Blu-ray

‘Fancy A Jump?’ BFI Releasing Alan Clarke’s Rita, Sue And Bob Too On Blu-ray

Following an acclaimed career in TV drama (much of which was made available in last year’s BFI box set release, Dissent and Disruption: Alan Clarke at the BBC 1969-1989), director Alan Clarke achieved a box-office hit with the much loved raunchy comedy Rita, Sue and Bob Too.

Adapted by Andrea Dunbar from her own play, based on her upbringing on Bradford’s Buttershaw estate, Rita, Sue and Bob Tooc…

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I posted 512 times in 2022

That's 494 more posts than 2021!

60 posts created (12%)

452 posts reblogged (88%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

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I tagged 168 of my posts in 2022

#caroline mckenzie dawson - 30 posts

#last tango in halifax - 27 posts

#jane oliver - 27 posts

#ltih - 26 posts

#collateral - 21 posts

#ao3 - 17 posts

#fanfic - 15 posts

#lol - 9 posts

#gillian greenwood - 6 posts

#hahahaha - 3 posts

Longest Tag: 128 characters

#me when i went off the deep end about theranos and elizabeth holmes a couple of months ago…. but like lots of other stuff too 😂

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Last Tango In Halifax Rating: Mature Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Gillian Greenwood/Caroline McKenzie-Dawson, Gillian Greenwood & Caroline McKenzie-Dawson Characters: Caroline McKenzie-Dawson, Gillian Greenwood Summary:

Gillian needs glasses, Caroline points it out, Gillian grumbles

7 notes - Posted July 18, 2022

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Last Tango In Halifax Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Gillian Greenwood/Caroline McKenzie-Dawson Characters: Caroline McKenzie-Dawson, Gillian Greenwood

Hello! Can I offer you some fic in these trying times?

7 notes - Posted November 20, 2022

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Chapters: 35/? Fandom: Last Tango In Halifax, Collateral (TV 2018) Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Caroline McKenzie-Dawson/Jane Oliver Characters: Caroline McKenzie-Dawson, Jane Oliver, Gillian Greenwood, Celia Dawson, Alan Buttershaw

ok? ok! 

8 notes - Posted November 15, 2022

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Chapters: 16/? Fandom: Last Tango In Halifax, Collateral (TV 2018) Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Caroline McKenzie-Dawson/Jane Oliver Characters: Caroline McKenzie-Dawson, Jane Oliver, Gillian Greenwood, Celia Dawson, Alan Buttershaw

Another one!

10 notes - Posted July 28, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

I cry forever.

10 notes - Posted October 24, 2022

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[almaviva90]

[pinkfloralcake]

god little flora is so cute in her hat and oat aww omg

"'lackluster' is too strong a word..."

“i can’t go learning lines at my age!”

[sarahlancashire2]

@sarahlancashire2 🖤

Inside Sally Wainwright’s house! I love how she’s got a Last Tango in Halifax photograph, on her wall. 🙃👌🏻

[farminglesbian]

I’d like to commemorate these two fine examples of facial expressions from episode 2

[brigittemarlt]

Derek as Alan Buttershaw In “Last Tango In Halifax”. This series is an hymn to Life and hope. It Is never to late for being happy. Always believe that something new can happen. And never give up. Alan makes us believe in that because to him “Life is a matter of confidence”. I am looking forward to seeing the season 4!

[moreandmoreconfusing]

I became super attached to these characters in a very short amount of time. Except john, he's a dick. This is not healthy :P

[almaviva90]

‘Shall I make these fellas a cup of tea?’ ‘Yeah. Shall we let them do a bit of work first and then?’