#brit cinema

[ludojudoposts]

Hell Drivers (1957) dir. Cy Endfield

Starring: Stanley Baker, Patrick McGoohan, David McCallum, Herbert Lom, Sean Connery, Sidney James, William Hartnell, Wilfrid Lawson

[vertigoartgore]

Todd Haynes's Velvet Goldmine turn 25 today. Feel old yet ?

[cinematicmasterpiece]

another earth (2011)

[thisbluespirit]

Jane Austen, Missing Presumed Lost, Most Wanted edition

I was intrigued by the other poll, because surely there were some other feature films (as opposed to TV versions) released prior to the 90s, aside from Pride and Prejudice (1940), but there really don't seem to be. Even the BBC seem to have been slow to adapt some of them at all.

Anyway, to use my brief and dodgy wikipedia-based research for something, which lost Austen TV adaptation would you most like to see if someone could just find it stashed in their attic?

[distort251]

Another Earth (2011) / Director: Mike Cahill

[bob-the-movie-man-film-reviews]

Paint (12): Sex, Oils and Mount Mansfield.

A One Mann’s Movies review of “Paint” (2023). In my eyes, Owen Wilson always seems to play himself in movies. But here, despite the character’s name, he most definitely plays someone else…. someone beloved of bored Covid-lockdown painters like me! Bob the Movie Man Rating: Plot Summary: Carl Nargle (Owen Wilson) has been the star of “Paint with Carl Nargle” on PBS Burlington for decades. On…

[moonofiron]

- Evelyn Waugh, The Loved One

[camillelaurent]

“I don't wanna really be around too many people or do too much talking.”

Another Earth (2011) Directed by Mike Cahill. Written by Mike Cahill & Brit Marling.

[mariocki]

Alfred Burke as antagonistic convict (and self-styled tobacco 'baron') Lang in 1962's The Pot Carriers

[monsterfromid]

The Husbando cogitates on Endless Night, which should really be a cult movie by now. Especially with Bernard Herrmann firing up a Moog synthesiser for the score.

(5) ENDLESS NIGHT (1971) [FULL CD] - YouTube

[ludojudoposts]

Twenty-Nine (1969) dir. Brian Cummins

[tinyhrry]

Harry Styles Fic Recs

FLUFF:

Three Birthdays (@watchmegetobsessed)

And the winner is.. (@freedomfireflies)

Value (@alittletaste)

tears of love (@finelinevogue)

grammys '23 (@whitemancumslut)

maybe next time he'll think (@avatar-anna)

wrong number (@freedomfireflies)

skincare & award shows (@alittletaste)

cleanse (@mulledcherrywine)

in this world, it's just us (@finelinevogue)

sweet (@avatar-anna)

a talk show and a surprise pt 2 pt 3 (@gucciwins)

starry eyes (@finelinevogue)

nobody puts baby in a corner (@meet-me-in-the-kitchen)

dream a little dream of me (@meet-me-in-the-kitchen)

late night talking (@duhstyles)

love, actually (@finelinevogue)

Bananas! (@jarofstyles)

the night we met (@avatar-anna)

take my hand (@chrisevansonly)

decode (@watchmegetobsessed)

kisses (@onlygrapejuice)

sweet talk (@tokyoharry)

official (@harryisalrightig)

my hero (@watchmegetobsessed)

spill your guts or fill your guts (@mydearesthrry)

I love you more than dino nuggets (@finelinevogue)

PDA <33 (@daaydreamy)

so proud (@finelinevogue)

lewis H x styles!reader (@lecsainz)

ANGST:

i've loved you for a thousand lifetimes (@love-strawberry)

memory lost (@avatar-anna)

worst daddy ever (@whitemancumslut)

faded away pt 2 (@harrysgraceland)

family will get you through (@finelinevogue)

goodbye (@peleksstuff)

social media au: just give me a day, or two.. (@meetmymouth)

breaking the ice (@purplekiwis)

slipping through my fingers (@madeintheniamh)

social media au: heartbreak on tour (@twobluejeans)

SMUT:

social media au: y/n being horny on main after the brits (@meetmymouth)

dough (@harrysfluff)

sneaky (@watchmegetobsessed)

your lips, my lips.. apocalypse (@meetmymouth)

afterparty (@chaoticloving)

SERIES:

the professor series (@avatar-anna)

Cinema (@tinydeskwriter)

unknown number (@avatar-anna)

a small phone call (@twohearts-hs)

[vhstown]

okay okay bit random but as a british person (yes im admitting to this) who lives around people who speak like hobie brown

PLEASE STOP WRITING HOBIE'S ACCENT LIKE HE'S HARRY STYLES 😭😭😭😭

(pls read below the cut)

you do not need to add an apostrophe every 2 sounds and make his speech unreadable we know he has an accent....

use it in moderation . a few sounds omitted are fine but please. you do not need to be doing 4D chess trying to portray every little quirk of his speech

a lot of the times if you over-do the accent it doesn't even sound right when you read it out? (to me it reads like an american or northern accent usually)

trust me we know how he sounds

OKAY OKAY bit of cultural trivia if you want to use slang you're probably gonna be looking at jamaican patois slang (EDIT: MLE or multi-cultural london english is the more appropriate term for his dialect! pls check the reblogs for a better explanation of it by somebody else)

in ATSV the only thing i can remember him saying is "mandem" and he tends to use other phrases like "man" and "my guy" to refer to others he's close with

not every piece of jamaican patois slang is commonly used in MLE

MLE is predominantly found in areas like south london or camden (where hobie is from)

hobie also seems to dial down his accent when speaking to people who aren't from his universe (my reasoning anyway)

his accent is actually very subtle compared to what i've seen irl

hobie is very witty and tends to speaks fast with a lot of filler words like "yeah?" and "alright?" and you wanna focus on things like word order and structure (for example the word "I" tends to be missing a lot so "i went to the cinema" would just be "went to the cinema" etc etc)

im not the best at writing hobie either and i wish he got more screentime but focus on capturing his personality rather than his accent pls

he's a teenager from a deprived area NOT A WHITE BRITISH HEARTHROB PLEASE STOP WRI'IN 'IM LI' 'ARRY BLOODY STOILES

sincerely a brit who really loves hobie but not so much the attempts at his accent

will reblog or edit with any other thoughts i have about this id appreciate any other british people's input too

PLEASE check out the reblogs on this !!!!

[thisbluespirit]

Me, watching Glorious 39 (after a decade of being all "Well that looks like a cast of everyone i like in one place"):

a) lol, even so that is a ridiculous dinner party to just assemble in a tent - oh, let's just have Bill Nighy, Romola Garai, David Tennant, Jenny Agutter, Eddie Redmayne & Jeremy Northam why not.

and

b) David Tennant you are so going to be murdered before this film goes any further, aren't you? That's why I hadn't even noticed you were in it.

[artistmarchalius]

Cockney Rhyming Slang! ✨

I’ve seen a good amount of rhyming slang from Hobie in fics and I love to see it! I love language and slang; I find the origins and usage of words fascinating, so I thought I’d make a little post about it to offer up some knowledge, tips and suggestions that I hope will be helpful or interesting to both those currently incorporating it in fics, as well as to those who want to use it but might not know where to start. Or even to those who don’t write but want to know!

So here we go!

First, a very brief history!

Cockney rhyming slang originated from the East End of London in the early 19th century. It was originally used by Cockneys so they could speak in front of the police without being understood and was very handy if you had some dodgy dealings going on. It has since passed into common language and is no longer restricted to use by Cockneys.

So you can see why it would make sense for Hobie to know a lot of it if he’s running around rebelling against a corrupt government run by supervillains!

How does it work?

Cockney rhyming slang works by taking a word and using a rhyming phrase of about two to three words to replace it. For example: “Daisy roots” means “boots” and “Ones and twos” means “shoes”.

There can be multiple phrases used for the same word, for example: both “Trouble and strife” and “Duchess of Fife” mean “wife”.

A Cockney rhyming slang tip:

A little shortcut to make your Cockney rhyming slang more authentic to a day to day Brit is to only use the first word in the phrase. For example:

If I wanted to write “Use your head”, I could write “Use your loaf of bread” and that would be accurate, but it would be even more accurate to just say “Use your loaf”.

Another example:

“I haven’t got a clue”, which if you’ve seen Across the Spider-Verse, you would know is “I haven’t got a Scooby Doo”, is commonly shortened to “I haven’t got a Scooby”. This actually threw me off when I saw it in the cinema and I never knew why until I learned about the “first word rule” in an East End documentary the other night 😂

Other examples:

Bread and honey = money. “I don’t have enough bread for that.”

Rabbit and pork = talk. “He don’t half rabbit on”. Chas and Dave wrote a song called Rabbit, which is a bit casually rude towards women as many things from the 80’s can be, but it did give us the line “You’ve got more rabbit than Sainsbury’s“ which I find quite funny.

Butchers hook = look. “Let’s take a butchers at that”

Donkeys ears = years. “I haven’t seen you in donkeys!”

I believe that back in the day, only using the first word of the phrase was an added level of secrecy to keep the police from knowing what you were talking about since it took away the rhyming portion of the phrase which the police might have been able to guess the meaning of. Only those who knew the rest of the phrase would know what the other was talking about. It has since become a more common practice to the point where many people don’t even realise they’re doing it (as I did until recently).

However, it is still perfectly acceptable to use the full phrase. For example, I’ve called someone on the old “dog and bone” (phone) and I’ve heard the stairs be called “apples and pears” but not really just “apples”.

Other examples:

Donkeys ears = years. “I haven’t seen you in donkeys!” as mentioned above. It’s also commonly mistaken for Donkeys Years. “I haven’t seen you in donkeys years”. Although technically it isn’t the full phrase, I’d say this still counts.

Shortening and adaptations:

Over time, some of the phrases have been shortened and adapted to form new slang. For example:

Bottle and stopper = copper (police). I’ve seen a lot of use of bottle and stopper in fanfics and that’s perfectly acceptable. However, the phrase is more commonly shortened to “Bottle” or adapted to “Bluebottle” or “Mr Bluebottle” due to the colour of their uniforms. Also, “bluebottle mob” can be used to mean the police force.

Another example of shortened and adapted Cockney rhyming slang is:

“Pork pies” = lies. More commonly shortened to “Porkies”. E.g. “she’s telling porkies.”

Here are some other slang words that have their origins in Cockney pronunciation:

Wotcher - an informal greeting originating from the Cockney contraction of “what cheer” (basically meaning “hello” or “what’s up?”). E.g. “Wotcher.”

Bruv/Bruvver - brother. Used the same way one would say “bro”. Bruvver is a cockney pronunciation of “brother” which has been shorted to the more commonly used “bruv”. E.g. “Good to see ya, bruv!”

And there you go, some quick knowledge about Cockney rhyming slang! I don’t claim to be an expert on the topic, a true Cockney would know far more than I do, but I thought I’d throw my hat into the ring and share the knowledge I do have in the hopes that it will help or entertain someone.

I’ll make another post going into police specific slang terms since that seems to be something that is intrinsically tied to the Spiderman experience, as well as Hobie’s, even more so as an anarchist arachnid, fascist punching punk rebel.

I might also make another post about general British slang words. Let me know if that’s something you’d be interested in or if there’s a specific area that you’d like to know about!

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the camera panning to the doubled brits.... cinema!