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<blockquote data-quote="Mel O&#039;Drama" data-source="post: 415882" data-attributes="member: 23"><p style="text-align: center"><strong><span style="font-size: 22px">The Steamie</span></strong> (1988)</p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"><img src="https://a.ltrbxd.com/resized/film-poster/1/5/1/9/9/7/151997-the-steamie-0-2000-0-3000-crop.jpg?v=037340063e" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 615px" /></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center">This is one I hadn't heard of, so clearly slipped by me back in 1988. Since I'm not in Scotland, perhaps it wasn't even shown in my area. Even last night I watched it on the STV app, but there's no sign of it on the national ITV site.</p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center">This one grabbed me partly because it's been featured on the STV home page, and it's easy to see why since it's set on Hogmanay 1950. The period setting of the image grabbed me , and I was also intrigued to see Eileen McCallum present, since she's perhaps <em>Take The High Road's</em> most familiar face (being on the series beginning to end as she was).</p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center">I think I expected something quite whimsical and nostalgic and, while there is a little vein of both, whimsy isn't the film's main characteristic. It's not as fuzzy as I'd expected, but it does have a forthright, direct Glaswegian charm.</p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center">I must confess the accents meant I had to listen carefully to the dialogue, and I'm sure there were still a couple of lines and references that went over my head. It also was a slow-burner, being a dialogue-heavy piece in which nothing out of the ordinary happened. But it's good dialogue, and I enjoyed the fact that I could still feel its origins as a stage play. And once eased into the rhythms of the piece, it all started working. The standout scene for me - the one that made me laugh the most - was actually a really drawn out scene in which the same story was told (badly) several times while other characters became more perplexed and annoyed.</p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center">[MEDIA=youtube]tNNuvFi0n4I[/MEDIA]</p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center">Surprisingly, the film's tone reminded me somewhat of <em>Prisoner</em> (as in Cell Block H, not The Village) This was due was the drab, laundry setting, the abundance of strong character actresses and the repartee which reminded me of the banter between the prisoners as they worked. And once seen I couldn't unsee it. There's also more than a little Victoria Wood in there, if I think of her early films such as <em>Talent</em>. Like those vehicles, this one occasionally cut to the occasional song, and even a couple of monologues. This one was a cracker:</p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center">[MEDIA=youtube]bYt7_nGmUdU[/MEDIA]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mel O'Drama, post: 415882, member: 23"] [CENTER][B][SIZE=6]The Steamie[/SIZE][/B] (1988) [IMG width="615px"]https://a.ltrbxd.com/resized/film-poster/1/5/1/9/9/7/151997-the-steamie-0-2000-0-3000-crop.jpg?v=037340063e[/IMG] This is one I hadn't heard of, so clearly slipped by me back in 1988. Since I'm not in Scotland, perhaps it wasn't even shown in my area. Even last night I watched it on the STV app, but there's no sign of it on the national ITV site. This one grabbed me partly because it's been featured on the STV home page, and it's easy to see why since it's set on Hogmanay 1950. The period setting of the image grabbed me , and I was also intrigued to see Eileen McCallum present, since she's perhaps [I]Take The High Road's[/I] most familiar face (being on the series beginning to end as she was). I think I expected something quite whimsical and nostalgic and, while there is a little vein of both, whimsy isn't the film's main characteristic. It's not as fuzzy as I'd expected, but it does have a forthright, direct Glaswegian charm. I must confess the accents meant I had to listen carefully to the dialogue, and I'm sure there were still a couple of lines and references that went over my head. It also was a slow-burner, being a dialogue-heavy piece in which nothing out of the ordinary happened. But it's good dialogue, and I enjoyed the fact that I could still feel its origins as a stage play. And once eased into the rhythms of the piece, it all started working. The standout scene for me - the one that made me laugh the most - was actually a really drawn out scene in which the same story was told (badly) several times while other characters became more perplexed and annoyed. [MEDIA=youtube]tNNuvFi0n4I[/MEDIA] Surprisingly, the film's tone reminded me somewhat of [I]Prisoner[/I] (as in Cell Block H, not The Village) This was due was the drab, laundry setting, the abundance of strong character actresses and the repartee which reminded me of the banter between the prisoners as they worked. And once seen I couldn't unsee it. There's also more than a little Victoria Wood in there, if I think of her early films such as [I]Talent[/I]. Like those vehicles, this one occasionally cut to the occasional song, and even a couple of monologues. This one was a cracker: [MEDIA=youtube]bYt7_nGmUdU[/MEDIA][/CENTER] [/QUOTE]
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