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Culloden (1964: Peter Watkins)

 
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 29, 2008 10:24 am    Post subject: Culloden (1964: Peter Watkins) Reply with quote
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Made for television, but subsequently shown in film theatres, Watkins’s mock-documentary offers an antidote to the romanticised version of the Jacobite Rising promoted by Hollywood movies, and our own fiction, songs and tourist industry. It was made long before This is Spinal Tap and the fashion for mock-documentaries as comedy. And, although the device of having a modern television crew in an 18th Century battle, complete with posh BBC interviewer, may now appear Pythonesque, Watkins is in deadly earnest, highlighting the confusion and misery of the foot soldiers and the incompetence and cowardice of their leaders. Battle scenes were close-ups by necessity, for Watkins could afford only 25 redcoat uniforms.



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