JamesWhitehead
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that would have stopped me ever doing anything stupid.
I knew of it only by repute - until tonight! It is an amazing bit of film-making that would not stand any chance of being made today.
Partly because some twonk would object to the length of some of the shots - especially the entry into the tunnel, which is magnificently conceived and justifies its length, even as we study the hairstyles of the cannon-fodder. Mainly because of the death of irony: twonks would insist the film was merely an instruction-manual for f'wits! As indeed it is. To be honest, despite its traumatic impact, I wonder if, even back in the day, it might have given ideas to the idea-less. Then there is the blood! OK, it's obviously been smeared on those juvenile legs - did Savile get that gig? Yet blood was mainly kept off the screen, in those days, apart from X-certificate fare, such as The Wild Bunch. Many kids would not have been inured to it, as I fear many, raised on violent video-games, are today.
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