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Posted by tgl on 2007-10-17 17:56:16 +0000

Withnail & I

Enjoyed while home sick on Monday (damn it if I didn't miss Drew Carey's first Price is Right). My guess at virtue's favorite line: "I NEED BOOZE!" While the closing scenes describing the end of the 60s don't seem to mesh thematically with the road trip itself, I'm going to have to take the screenwriter up on their words and say this movie is about the end of the 60s. At some point we have to decide that our dreams are unattainable. Wait.. did I miss something? Did "& I" decide to become an accountant or did he really get an acting job? Pleasantly funny and the source of my new favorite bar order: large gin and a pint of cider with ice. Score 8.34002
Posted by Corby Trouser Press on 2007-10-17 19:16:37 +0000
I MEAN TO HAVE YOU EVEN IF IT BE BURGLARY!!! the countryside bits were all filmed near the familial homestead in Cumbria, the Penrith Tea rooms really do exist and serve great cake. Monty's country house is in the village with perhaps the finest name in the world 'Wet Sleddale' A slight whoopsy on the part of the film makers, our heroes are pictured driving up the M1 motorway from London, that part of the motorway was not built until 1977...
Posted by tgl on 2007-10-17 19:20:49 +0000
The motorway did no seem era appropriate. (It also gave the impression of an American Road Trip film... shouldn't there have been a train to Wet Sleddale?)
Posted by Corby Trouser Press on 2007-10-17 19:42:19 +0000
well.... the train would have been Paddington to Oxenholme followed by a local train to Shap and then its about a 5 mile walk to Wet Sleddale. That is of course on the assumption that Dr Beeching's closure of the railways hadn't already closed the Oxenholme / Shap line
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