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<blockquote data-quote="Mel O&amp;#039;Drama" data-source="post: 150483" data-attributes="member: 23">Ah - the film version of Seventies sitcoms. It&#039;s fun to guess which lines and scenarios are going to be recycled. I was disappointed not to see a &quot;mish-ap&quot; or &quot;mizzled&quot;, but nicely surprised to see Beryl telling her Mum she can&#039;t raise one eyebrow. And (as it dawned on me halfway through the film) I suppose it was inevitable that most of the familiar dialogue would come from the first series, since Jack Rosenthal penned both.Given the pre-video era there was, of course, just cause for all these great lines being put into a &quot;time capsule&quot; version of the series. And with The Lovers there is even more justification for the reenactment given there&#039;s actually story going on, certainly compared with many of their big screen Seventies stablemates.It&#039;s great to see the three key characters there for the film. With Joan Scott&#039;s name not appearing on the DVD case I feared a recast and it was a relief that wasn&#039;t the case.The character I missed the most from the TV series was Alison King&#039;s &quot;Woman&quot;. Her scene stealing cameos made her The Lovers&#039; very own Hitchcock or Stan Lee and she had such a great, expressive face that always made a funny scene even funnier. She was there at the beginning and at the end, bearing witness to the various hiccups and reunions. Her unique perspective added a special layer to the action and made her, in my opinion, as important to the story as Beryl&#039;s Mum. Robin Nedwell&#039;s sleazy Roland would have been nice, but Nikolas Simmonds was fine.It hadn&#039;t really occurred to me during the series that we didn&#039;t see Geoffrey&#039;s home life. Most of what we learnt about him came from his interactions with Beryl and Roland. So it was a little strange seeing his parents. It was especially nice for to have a glimpse of a pre-Summer Wine John Comer as his Dad.As with the series, this felt in many ways like a (mostly) truthful depiction of the era in which it was made. The cultural references to places like George Best&#039;s Boutique and Old Trafford were thoroughly enjoyable. In fact, Manchester itself was very much a character in the film - right down to the orange buses. A scene on a rooftop looking down over the city was particularly striking. I don&#039;t know Manchester very well and I still loved it. I imagine for someone who&#039;s lived in the city it would be a treat to see these places as they were all those years ago.
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[QUOTE="Mel O'Drama, post: 150483, member: 23"] Ah - the film version of Seventies sitcoms. It's fun to guess which lines and scenarios are going to be recycled. I was disappointed not to see a "mish-ap" or "mizzled", but nicely surprised to see Beryl telling her Mum she can't raise one eyebrow. And (as it dawned on me halfway through the film) I suppose it was inevitable that most of the familiar dialogue would come from the first series, since Jack Rosenthal penned both. Given the pre-video era there was, of course, just cause for all these great lines being put into a "time capsule" version of the series. And with [I]The Lovers [/I]there is even more justification for the reenactment given there's actually story going on, certainly compared with many of their big screen Seventies stablemates. It's great to see the three key characters there for the film. With Joan Scott's name not appearing on the DVD case I feared a recast and it was a relief that wasn't the case. The character I missed the most from the TV series was Alison King's "Woman". Her scene stealing cameos made her [I]The Lovers'[/I] very own Hitchcock or Stan Lee and she had such a great, expressive face that always made a funny scene even funnier. She was there at the beginning and at the end, bearing witness to the various hiccups and reunions. Her unique perspective added a special layer to the action and made her, in my opinion, as important to the story as Beryl's Mum. Robin Nedwell's sleazy Roland would have been nice, but Nikolas Simmonds was fine. It hadn't really occurred to me during the series that we didn't see Geoffrey's home life. Most of what we learnt about him came from his interactions with Beryl and Roland. So it was a little strange seeing his parents. It was especially nice for to have a glimpse of a pre-[I]Summer Wine [/I]John Comer as his Dad. As with the series, this felt in many ways like a (mostly) truthful depiction of the era in which it was made. The cultural references to places like George Best's Boutique and Old Trafford were thoroughly enjoyable. In fact, Manchester itself was very much a character in the film - right down to the orange buses. A scene on a rooftop looking down over the city was particularly striking. I don't know Manchester very well and I still loved it. I imagine for someone who's lived in the city it would be a treat to see these places as they were all those years ago. [CENTER] [MEDIA=youtube]zb0yZbPExYM[/MEDIA] [IMG]https://inostalgia.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/paula-wilcox-richard-beckinsale.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]https://c8.alamy.com/comp/P8EGDH/the-lovers-1973-paula-wilcox-richard-beckinsale-bobby-charlton-date-1973-P8EGDH.jpg[/IMG] [/CENTER] [/QUOTE]

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