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Friday, 1 August 2008
A Telling Cinematic Interlude: From Karaoke (Dennis Potter)
 The first 1:10 minutes provide a telling verisimilar example of Arab behavior in London. Londoners will at once recognize such a scene, and such behavior. Could that scene be written, filmed, and broadcast today? Or would it get in the way of that "tolerant multi-ethnic society" some in the political and media elites apparently think the people of Great Britain must move heaven and earth to build and, in order to do so, must be willing to systematically ignore the texts, tenets, attitudes, and atmospherics of Islam. Posted on 08/01/2008 1:19 PM by Hugh Fitzgerald
Comments
1 Aug 2008
Mary Jackson Could that scene be written, filmed, and broadcast today? Yes, but not the second because of the smoking, which under Nanny New Labour is a real no-no. Then, as now, it would be seen as "Arab culture", not as Islam. Americans don't know England as well as they think they do. Dennis Potter's way overrated - there's loads of much funnier, cleverer and less pretentious stuff - though I like some of the song and dance routines. 1 Aug 2008
Mary Jackson "Americans" Well, the muckety muckamucks anyway. They ain't never been dahn Tootin' or rahnd King's Cross looking for the rhyming slang for muckamuck. |
