Best Documentary Piece?

The VII and VIII docos are pretty slick. Probably Tikka or Stoke. Perhaps Only The Good… for VIII.

Dwarfin’ USA. Probably because it’s just a very interesting subject, had semi-exclusive clips and generated some very candid interviews.

For me, the best documentary by far is Re-Dwarf. But that probably isn’t that accessible for a general audience, which is needed here, so I’d go with Cappsy – one of the sections from the 1/2 doccos.

One of the more candid bits would be good, but might not work without the context. I think Dwarfing USA would be good, but I always liked the way the “Black Wednesday/Thursday etc” bit was done.

Anything from the Series 1 or 2 Bodysnatcher doccos would be good though. I can’t remember which bit.

I think the EmoHawk one is quite good (if that is the one with the cork explosion) it’s funny, entertaining, and a nice piece of inside info from the world of Dwarf.

Much as I love the Series III and IV doccos, I think in retrospect they’re a bit claustrophobic. No rushes footage, no other bits to break up the piece (readthroughs, radio show clips, whatever). Great to watch, as we love the episodes, but not showing the absolute best that the doccos ended up managing to achieve.

I love the Me² section of The Beginning – the use of the rushes footage there is hugely inventive.

I will have to re-watch them to comment properly and am curently separated from my DVDs by about 500 miles.

I will get back to you.

Star Wars should also always be watched in the order the films were made (IV-VI then I-III). And the Narnia books should be read in the order they were written (it’s good to see the movies are being made in that way too). Not that it’s that big a deal. I mean, it’s not as though I make sure I watch Next Generation episodes by production order as opposed to broadcast order or anything…

TLTWATW

Lol, “TWAT”.

Disney are apparently expecting 7 Narnia films in total. Personally what I would do is combine Magician’s Nephew and The Last Battle into one movie about the birth and death of Narnia, cutting most of the mental parts with the stupid ape and donkey. The Horse And His Boy is definitely filmable, it just needs to be changed somewhat so that the Calormen people are shown more as good guys.

>…the mental parts with the stupid ape and donkey.

The problem with that is that I’m pretty sure the ape and donkey are supposed to be symbolic–I think they’re some kind of Antichrist symbol. Also, they take up rather a lot of the book, don’t they?

>And then the end where they pass into ?heaven? but Susan is not allowed to because she?s a slut.

There’s a really good Neil Gaiman short story called “The Problem of Susan” about that.

I’ve owned a series of the Narnia books since I was a pre-teen. I’ve never got past book two. I loved The Magician’s Nephew, quite liked TLTWATW (who doesn’t?), but couldn’t get into Prince Caspian and basically just gave up after that.

I recently rewatched the BBC Silver Chair adaptation on youtube. A right laugh it is. I hadn’t seen it for at least 10 years, before I even knew who Tom Baker was (he plays Puddleglum the marshwiggle in this!). It will make a great film as long as they multiply everything in it by 10, and maybe have a big battle at the end between the Underworld people and the Narnians, otherwise it’s just too happy and cheesy.

The way they did Prince Caspian was EXACTLY right.

Disney are apparently expecting 7 Narnia films in total. Personally what I would do is combine Magician?s Nephew and The Last Battle into one movie about the birth and death of Narnia, cutting most of the mental parts with the stupid ape and donkey. The Horse And His Boy is definitely filmable, it just needs to be changed somewhat so that the Calormen people are shown more as good guys.

To be fair one of the main protagonist characters in the book is Calormene, so they’re not all like that.

I know what you mean though. There are a lot of racial elements in the Narnia books that are uncomfortable, particularly nowadays.

I loved the Narnia books though, and wouldn’t mind picking them up again. I gave all mine away for some reason. Probably as a teenager thinking, “They’re kids books”… like it matters.

Well, the scene was always written to BE the ending. So, um, yes!

Bugger.

We had to drop one Tony Hawks warm-up clip for music clearance reasons. He?d selected a member of the audience and sang into camera for them: ?You make me feel, you make me feel – Dave – you make me feel like a natural?yoghurt.?

I thought that the rules of musical clearance were different when parodies are involved. If they’re not derogatory or defamatory.

*cries*

Interesting titbit: Ron Pember had to shoot his scene in the bunkroom the following week due to availability problems on the BTL shooting day.

Fantastic. I *love* the fact that there’s still more stuff to find out like this!