Sex Pistols
- Marky Dread
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The Sid story was going to have Marianne Faithful play his mother and allegedly have Sid eat a Mars bar from between her legs.
This is from an alleged story of Marianne being found in this position when the police raided Keith Richards country home. Which I believe is just pure press fabrication.
Yes the script has been published online.
Here it is. Have fun!
https://www.rogerebert.com/roger-ebert/ ... screenplay
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Re: Sex Pistols
Thanks! I think I've seen the Ebert screenplay, but I meant the screenplay that Temple worked from that apparently had so many cuts.Marky Dread wrote: ↑03 Mar 2021, 12:27pm
The Sid story was going to have Marianne Faithful play his mother and allegedly have Sid eat a Mars bar from between her legs.
This is from an alleged story of Marianne being found in this position when the police raided Keith Richards country home. Which I believe is just pure press fabrication.
Yes the script has been published online.
Here it is. Have fun!
https://www.rogerebert.com/roger-ebert/ ... screenplay
"Grab some wood, bub.'" - Richard Nixon, Checkers Speech, abandoned early draft
- Marky Dread
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Ahh then no. I also wonder how much was removed. I know the Sid cartoon with him attacking a guy with a bike chain was removed and again it's in the F&tF. The newspapers at the end of the movie which show Sid's death was a requirement by the censors to show a moral ending.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑03 Mar 2021, 12:41pmThanks! I think I've seen the Ebert screenplay, but I meant the screenplay that Temple worked from that apparently had so many cuts.Marky Dread wrote: ↑03 Mar 2021, 12:27pm
The Sid story was going to have Marianne Faithful play his mother and allegedly have Sid eat a Mars bar from between her legs.
This is from an alleged story of Marianne being found in this position when the police raided Keith Richards country home. Which I believe is just pure press fabrication.
Yes the script has been published online.
Here it is. Have fun!
https://www.rogerebert.com/roger-ebert/ ... screenplay
Forces have been looting
My humanity
Curfews have been curbing
The end of liberty
We're the flowers in the dustbin...
No fuchsias for you.
"Without the common people you're nothing"
Nos Sumus Una Familia
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What could be more moral than a poor kid run over by life dying young? Christ on a bike. The weird thing is, instead it comes off (or at least it did when I was younger) as part of the faux romance of Sid living fast and dying young. So, not the kind of moral ending the censors would have wanted audiences to come away with.Marky Dread wrote: ↑03 Mar 2021, 1:35pmI also wonder how much was removed. I know the Sid cartoon with him attacking a guy with a bike chain was removed and again it's in the F&tF. The newspapers at the end of the movie which show Sid's death was a requirement by the censors to show a moral ending.
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Yep I've never understood their reasoning.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑03 Mar 2021, 1:59pmWhat could be more moral than a poor kid run over by life dying young? Christ on a bike. The weird thing is, instead it comes off (or at least it did when I was younger) as part of the faux romance of Sid living fast and dying young. So, not the kind of moral ending the censors would have wanted audiences to come away with.Marky Dread wrote: ↑03 Mar 2021, 1:35pmI also wonder how much was removed. I know the Sid cartoon with him attacking a guy with a bike chain was removed and again it's in the F&tF. The newspapers at the end of the movie which show Sid's death was a requirement by the censors to show a moral ending.
Another thing to mention is in '79 Julien also made a film for the U.K. Subs called "Punk Can Take It" which is on YouTube and it includes scenes of Helen Wallington- Lloyd shooting a hippy. This looks like it belonged to the Swindle to me. The guy doing the voice over for the Subs movie is John Snagge who voiced the trailer (Pistols Propaganda) for the Swindle. He did all the original WWII commentary back in the day.
Forces have been looting
My humanity
Curfews have been curbing
The end of liberty
We're the flowers in the dustbin...
No fuchsias for you.
"Without the common people you're nothing"
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Waste not, want not attitude towards footage. Undoubtedly you're correct.Marky Dread wrote: ↑03 Mar 2021, 2:06pmYep I've never understood their reasoning.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑03 Mar 2021, 1:59pmWhat could be more moral than a poor kid run over by life dying young? Christ on a bike. The weird thing is, instead it comes off (or at least it did when I was younger) as part of the faux romance of Sid living fast and dying young. So, not the kind of moral ending the censors would have wanted audiences to come away with.Marky Dread wrote: ↑03 Mar 2021, 1:35pmI also wonder how much was removed. I know the Sid cartoon with him attacking a guy with a bike chain was removed and again it's in the F&tF. The newspapers at the end of the movie which show Sid's death was a requirement by the censors to show a moral ending.
Another thing to mention is in '79 Julien also made a film for the U.K. Subs called "Punk Can Take It" which is on YouTube and it includes scenes of Helen Wallington- Lloyd shooting a hippy. This looks like it belonged to the Swindle to me. The guy doing the voice over for the Subs movie is John Snagge who voiced the trailer (Pistols Propaganda) for the Swindle. He did all the original WWII commentary back in the day.
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Yup. I picked up a VHS copy when they released it (can't remember the exact year). My cousin, who had been a fan since around 1978, had never seen it so we arranged a viewing party.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑03 Mar 2021, 9:15amI'll admit that I never noticed. Been many years since I watched it, too. I remember where I first saw it, tho. I was an undergrad in Saskatoon and the Student Union brought it in. It was this legendary document to me that existed yet I couldn't obtain a copy—pre-DVD, no legal VHS copies around. I just stared at the screen the whole time, like having cracked the vault. Those kinds of thrills are so rare.Marky Dread wrote: ↑03 Mar 2021, 8:02amYeah would approve if it's the former. And yes I am sad enough to have spotted it.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑03 Mar 2021, 7:34amIt'd be nice to think it's another sly joke about all the lies in the movie, but it's probably just sloppy.Marky Dread wrote: ↑03 Mar 2021, 5:07amI like all the animation done by Animation City for the movie. But I get where Kory is coming from the juxtaposition is very jarring. In one of the scenes where the band are going to the A&M offices both Matlock and Sid are featured in the car?Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑02 Mar 2021, 7:11pm
They certainly look of their time, but I don't mind them. And I love the single-album version's cover inspired by it.
edit: I would swear that I had a mounted poster of this, yet I can't find it anywhere in the basement. Either I gave it away or I never actually owned it. I just rectify that.
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i hope it's a coming of age film where an unassuming youth gets caught up in the excitement of this new music scene and learns along the way to live, laugh and love... perhaps with the help of one John Lydon?
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All along, real punk rock was friendship.
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"I 'ate the Queen. Bloody pile of rubbish, mate." Inhales on cigarette, looks Tim right in the eye. "But I tell you what I don't 'ate. The way Lacey looks at you when you play that bleedin' piano, pal. Anarchy!"
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Silent Majority wrote: ↑04 Mar 2021, 7:26pm"I 'ate the Queen. Bloody pile of rubbish, mate." Inhales on cigarette, looks Tim right in the eye. "But I tell you what I don't 'ate. The way Lacey looks at you when you play that bleedin' piano, pal. Anarchy!"
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Re: Sex Pistols
It pains me that Spike Lee couldn't bother to get that right.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑04 Mar 2021, 7:56pmSilent Majority wrote: ↑04 Mar 2021, 7:26pm"I 'ate the Queen. Bloody pile of rubbish, mate." Inhales on cigarette, looks Tim right in the eye. "But I tell you what I don't 'ate. The way Lacey looks at you when you play that bleedin' piano, pal. Anarchy!"
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This film is ready to go!Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑04 Mar 2021, 7:56pmSilent Majority wrote: ↑04 Mar 2021, 7:26pm"I 'ate the Queen. Bloody pile of rubbish, mate." Inhales on cigarette, looks Tim right in the eye. "But I tell you what I don't 'ate. The way Lacey looks at you when you play that bleedin' piano, pal. Anarchy!"
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What did he get wrong? Punk in 1977 was “Won't Get Fooled Again.” Full stop. That's why it's always on every classic punk compilation and top ten list.revbob wrote: ↑04 Mar 2021, 8:03pmIt pains me that Spike Lee couldn't bother to get that right.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑04 Mar 2021, 7:56pmSilent Majority wrote: ↑04 Mar 2021, 7:26pm"I 'ate the Queen. Bloody pile of rubbish, mate." Inhales on cigarette, looks Tim right in the eye. "But I tell you what I don't 'ate. The way Lacey looks at you when you play that bleedin' piano, pal. Anarchy!"
"Grab some wood, bub.'" - Richard Nixon, Checkers Speech, abandoned early draft