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     John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 62.31.153.8 |
So as Lars von Trier's latest comes to the ends of its run in Bristol some of you many remember in my review I mentioned the comments board that has been erected in the cinema for people to write what they thought on Post-Its. I had a few moments before Moon started today so I scribbled some down as I figured RCMB members might be interested to know what Bristol art house cinemagoers thought of the film: "The Evil Dead meets arty-farty!" "This takes me back..." "Always carry a spare spanner" "Don't marry a therapist" and scribbled on the same Post-It note beneath it in a different hand: "I agree! In fact I'm currently divorcing one and this is true." "Not exactly a first date movie...unfortunately" "Glad I didn't bring mother." "In the Realm of the Senses meets Clint Eastwood and The Nuns!" No idea what the mindset behind that one was but it sounds like a great pitch for a movie. My favourite, and the one that had me crying tears of laughter may unfortunately be lost on our overseas members or anyone under the age of 35. Someone had sketched an excellent rendition of Basil Brush and underneath it written "Chaos Reigns! Boom! Boom!" And I'm laughing again... | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.177.118.49 |
Well that had me laughing out loud - Basil Brush indeed! | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.4.253.112 |
Yup. I can attest to that. Utter four words at random, and that's about as funny as "Chaos Reigns!", etc. And Basil Brush = ? Still... I'm not sensing I will be getting the horror-fest I'm hoping for, in THE ANTICHRIST.... | ||
| John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.253.174.81 |
I've suddenly realised that 'Clint Eastwood and the Nuns' must be a comment about Don Siegel's civil war horror film The Beguiled. That makes more sense now. Craig - Basil Brush was a popular children's TV character who wore tweeds and a little waistcoat with fob watch, was well spoken, and had the above-mentioned catchphrase amidst a welter of manic expostulation. And yes I have been compared to him in the past. | ||
| Karim Ghahwagi (Karim) Username: Karim Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.239.143.57 |
HA! Currently on holiday and popped into a internet cafe and read the above post John. HA! Back to holiday then... | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 212.121.214.11 |
More importantly where Antichrist is concerned, Basil Brush was a fox. I believe there's a talking fox bit in Antichrist but I've not had a chance to get to the Cornerhouse to watch it. | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 212.121.214.11 |
Does the talking fox say "Chaos reigns"? That would explain the rest of the joke. | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 212.121.214.11 |
Actually Basil Brush is back as a regular on childrens telly now. He made his comeback about 3 or four years back. I didn't think it was as good as the original. He seems a lot camper than I remember him being. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.26.90.161 |
Bum, bum. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.26.90.161 |
I haven't seen this film yet. I didn't get on very well with Kingdom Hospital I'm afraid. | ||
| John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.253.174.81 |
Yes, sorry: 1 Basil Brush is a fox 2 In Antichrist Willem Dafoe finds a mutilated fox in the woods that growls 'Chaos Reigns' at him. NB It is NOT worth going to see this film just to get this joke. I had no idea that Basil Brush had made a comeback until I conducted a straw poll of BB fans in the office today. The original chap who did his voice was a patient of a friend of mine by the way. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.4.252.10 |
 I kind of get how this could be funny now... the thought of finding this in the woods spouting "Chaos reigns" is alone pretty funny.... | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 82.38.75.85 |
>>The original chap who did his voice was a patient of a friend of mine by the way.<< And then there was his human sidekick, Mr Derek .. who later graduated to "Yes, Minister" and, later still, "Heartbeat". Craig - I can't imagine how anyone could have LIVED without experiencing the childhood delights of Basil Brush. But back to the "Antichrist" jokes/comments .. Not having seen the film, I probably don't get many of them, but I really chuckled at "Glad I didn't bring mother"! | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 82.38.75.85 |
>>1 Basil Brush is a fox No, no, John. Sorry to disappoint you, but he's only a puppet. I hope that hasn't shattered all your illusions ...  | ||
| John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 62.31.153.8 |
And then there was his human sidekick, Mr Derek .. who later graduated to "Yes, Minister" and, later still, "Heartbeat". Indeed, but while he was still working with Basil he appeared in Richard Gordon's Tower of Evil! Another very tenuous Basil Brush - horror connection! | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 82.38.75.85 |
You're knowledge continues to astound me, Lord P!  | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 82.38.75.85 |
.. and that should, of course, be "your" not "you're". Funny, I have a strange kind of dyslexia for those two words - I do that regularly (but how embarrassing to do it here  ) | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.177.118.49 |
I also recall seeing 'Mr Derek' in a short film accompanying a main feature, back in the 'seventies, and he was nude! Gasp! | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 91.110.159.119 |
And his hand wasn't in a puppet. | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 82.38.75.85 |
* shock horror * Still, it could have been worse - it might have been Basil Brush in the nude.  How has this thread managed to wander off the topic so spectacularly? | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.21.234.133 |
How has this thread managed to wander off the topic so spectacularly? Not unlikeThe Revelations of Glaaki threads are written by different members of the board, and where one member leaves off another begins, perhaps on a totally different subject.  | ||
| John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.253.174.81 |
How has this thread managed to wander off the topic so spectacularly? I would argue (in probably an LvT way) that it hasn't at all. It just shows how small a step it is from Danish art house movies to Derek Fowlds in the nude. | ||
| Steve Jensen (Stevej) Username: Stevej Registered: 07-2009 Posted From: 82.0.77.233 |
I also recall seeing 'Mr Derek' in a short film accompanying a main feature, back in the 'seventies, and he was nude! Was he with Dirty Gertie from Number Thirty?!?!?  | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 82.38.75.85 |
Oh, I just love this message board! You folks really make me chuckle - thanks! | ||
| Steve Jensen (Stevej) Username: Stevej Registered: 07-2009 Posted From: 82.0.77.233 |
I notice, in the picture above, that Basil is all out of alignment (the teeth, the ears, the eyes looking in two different directions etc); perhaps Basil was made by the architect who built Hill House. | ||
| John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.253.174.81 |
I'd noticed that. How easily Mr Brush could have been a horror star. I'd also forgotten until just now that Derek Fowlds' other noteworthy film appearance was of course as one of the crippled Susan Denberg-mocking young miscreants in Hammer's Frankenstein Created Woman. | ||
| Steve Jensen (Stevej) Username: Stevej Registered: 07-2009 Posted From: 82.0.77.233 |
Perhaps Basil has some bizarre mind-control thingy goin' on... http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v73/lslneon/BB.png | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 82.38.75.85 |
>>I'd also forgotten until just now that Derek Fowlds' other noteworthy film appearance was of course as one of the crippled Susan Denberg-mocking young miscreants in Hammer's Frankenstein Created Woman.<< Ah, I was trying to think which genre film it was I'd seen him in - I knew it was a Hammer! Now, how many silly Basil Brush-related horror film titles could we make up? Basil Brush Created Woman The Legend of Brush House To Basil, A Daughter Bride of Basil .. Any more, folks? | ||
| Steve Jensen (Stevej) Username: Stevej Registered: 07-2009 Posted From: 82.0.77.233 |
Fur of Echoes Cape Fear The Puppet Master | ||
| John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.253.174.81 |
Blood on Basil's Claw The Shuttered Boom (Boom!) The Oblong Fox | ||
| Steve Jensen (Stevej) Username: Stevej Registered: 07-2009 Posted From: 82.0.77.233 |
Tails from the Crypt | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.12.129.226 |
I think the points have to go to mr Jensen there for "tails from the crypt". Can anyone beat that? I know I can't. Joel, the gauntlet has been tossed down at your feet. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.4.229.57 |
Ramsey?... Are you reading this?... Do you approve of all this nonsense?... | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 82.38.75.85 |
I must admit I thought after posting my initial challenge, Craig, that maybe I'm just getting a little bit too silly here. You'll have to forgive me. With both a 25th wedding anniversary and a birthday this week I'm feeling a little .. well, silly! Agreed, "Tails From The Crypt" is brilliant, as is "The Oblong Fox". How about "Basil Has Risen From The Grave" (appropriate, if he's now back on TV again)? And now maybe I'd better start being sensible again ... * looks around sheepishly * | ||
| Niki Flynn (Niki) Username: Niki Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.149.156.242 |
Sensible? Whatever for? Let's not overlook his short but lucrative career in mainstream porn: 100 Strokes of the Brush Before Bedtime. | ||
| Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.74 |
Don't forget the sixties British comedies The Wrong Fox and Here We Go Round The Mulberry Brush. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.26.90.161 |
>>>Ramsey?... Are you reading this?... Do you approve of all this nonsense?... You mean, this tasteful and witty nonsense, of course. | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 82.38.75.85 |
 Like I said, I do love this board! | ||
| Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.74 |
And there's Losey's 1968 film with Burton and Taylor, Boom Boom... | ||
| Steve Jensen (Stevej) Username: Stevej Registered: 07-2009 Posted From: 82.0.77.233 |
Woody Allen's Manhattan Murder, Mr Roy Keep throwing the rotten tomatoes, folks, I'm starving. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.26.90.161 |
Apparently the original doll had a design fault, you know. It was going to be used for the show until a stagehand spotted the problem and it was repaired. Imagine that: a faulty Basil on the BBC, way in advance of Cleese's Basil Fawlty. | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.37.199.45 |
There's the early silent film about a wandering fox, Trail of the Lonesome Vulpine. | ||
| Steve Jensen (Stevej) Username: Stevej Registered: 07-2009 Posted From: 82.0.77.233 |
I was gonna write Boom Raider, Brush Hour and Henhouse of Horrors but feared assassination. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.4.251.35 |
You mean, this tasteful and witty nonsense, of course. You're kit-ing, right?  (... meh, fox all'o ya's) | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.37.199.45 |
Foxes... such a headache. In an era of scientific pest control, electronic security systems, targeted poisons and heat-sensitive alarms, the only way to stop foxes invading chicken coops is for a bunch of agri-business barons who own high-tech factory farms to dress up like Victorian toffs and hunt them down with dogs that rip the fox apart so the agri-business barons can smear its fresh blood on themselves. No other solution will do, according to Guy N. Smith. Who is the fount of all wisdom.  | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.37.199.45 |
But of course, I'm a 'townie' who doesn't understand the countryside. Whereas an Eton and Parkhurst educated wanker with a rifle who lives on the Cayman Islands and only comes to UK to hunt has a natural, genetic empathy with the creatures of the earth. Because he is a fucking worm. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.26.90.161 |
Little bit of politics. Yes indeed. Sorry, when you wrote Eton, I thought it said Elton. | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.37.199.45 |
"wanker with a rifle" I meant an armoury of rifles, of course. Carried nine at a time. Because that's how much testosterone he has. | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.177.118.49 |
Joel - don't forget, the foxes actually enjoy being chased down and torn apart. Hunstmen say so. | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.177.118.49 |
"Hunstmen"? | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.26.90.161 |
Yeah, shocking typo. Fancy hitting H when you meant C. | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.37.199.45 |
I wonder whose gun [feminised name of bestselling male author deleted on legal advice] would really like to be firing off. | ||
| Karim Ghahwagi (Karim) Username: Karim Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 80.163.6.13 |
Actually you could have a 'townie' foxhunter as foxes have been known to roam into cities searching for food- like stray cats, tipping dust bins,etc. You could hit the agri-business barons with your car for instance, if they had decided to go urban fox hunting; or you could have them swing by a not too hot neighbourhood;(use a stuffed toy fox for bait)and see the victorian dressed hunters rushing towards a side alley for cover as the local neighbourhood boys let loose a hail of bullets of their own. Just a thought. | ||
| Karim Ghahwagi (Karim) Username: Karim Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 80.163.6.13 |
See this is when you need Albie. | ||
| Niki Flynn (Niki) Username: Niki Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.32.69.29 |
I wonder what LvT would make of this thread? | ||
| John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 62.31.153.8 |
Probably a nice hat, or a brooch, or a pterodactyl!! | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 82.38.75.85 |
>>See this is when you need Albie.<< You folks haven't frightened off Albie, have you? I know that name from another couple of boards. Paints some highly disturbing pictures, from my recollection. BTW I'm a country gal by birth and upbringing and I _detest_ fox-hunting. I used to get into some highly emotive discussions with kids at school who had fox-hunting parents. I wondered why I was never popular at school ... | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.26.90.161 |
Albie left of his own accord. He's welcome back whenever he chooses. Provided he keeps his voice down. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.16.84.9 |
Not a joke: http://www.thatvideogameblog.com/2009/06/19/lars-von-triers-antichrist-getting-g ame-adaptation/ | ||
| Karim Ghahwagi (Karim) Username: Karim Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 80.163.6.13 |
Just came back from watching an open air screening of Slumdog Millionaire. There were probably 10-15,000 people in the park here in the middle of copenhagen, all huddled on blankets and cushions; it was a perfect summer evening too. Sountrack was even more overwhelming with this kind of sound setup. | ||
| Karim Ghahwagi (Karim) Username: Karim Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 80.163.6.13 |
The projection booth.  |