How are the mighty fallen
Gareth
original, if the amount of activity here is anything to go by.
At least the indifference isn't confined to this independent corner of
the web. Thanks to Portmeirion having installed webcams a few years
ago, it's also possible to keep a non-partisan eye on all the outdoors
"action" at the 6o1 convention this weekend.
Move along...nothing to see there.
John W Kennedy
> It must be said, the "remake" seems to have killed interest in the
> original, if the amount of activity here is anything to go by.
The amount of activity anywhere on USENET is nothing to go by. The vast
quantities of spam that Google has been allowing in and refusing to do
anything about has nearly killed the entire system. I know of dozens of
newsgroups that used to get ten times the traffic this one did that are
now down to two or three legitimate posts a day, at best.
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John W Kennedy
If Bill Gates believes in "intelligent design", why can't he apply it
to Windows?
redcat
Was it busy in PM?
Moor Larkin
> It must be said, the "remake" seems to have killed interest in the
> original,
Not according this latest official publishitty it didn't:
"Essential resource for film students, fans of McGoohan and building
on the success of The Prisoner remake in 2009 starring Ian McKellan
and Jim Caviezel, introducing many fans to the original series"
http://www.mcgoohanbiography.co.uk/
Nice to see the Number Two's never give in...... :-D)))))
I am not a number, I am Moor Larkin.
http://numbersixwasinnocent.blogspot.com/
roger
news:866afbac-d620-4877...@a21g2000prj.googlegroups.com...
"Essential resource for film students, fans of McGoohan and building
on the success of The Prisoner remake in 2009 starring Ian McKellan
and Jim Caviezel, introducing many fans to the original series"
http://www.mcgoohanbiography.co.uk/
The author of this interesting new book, out later this month, would like to
distance himself from the questionable advertising line above. He hated the
remake and would like to make it clear that he has not the remotest
admiration for the 2009 series.
redcat
FishFood
Yeah, Its better to have wished and lost, than to have wished and
have those wishes fulfilled.
"When are they going to remake?", becomes
"call that a remake!?"
Makes you wonder what it was we saw in the original. Was it
simply its quirky middle england eccentricity, and that's all?
Or was its other coded points, also amongst what we shared and
yearned to see again?
Maybe in its desire to appeal to a mainstream audience, the
remake lost sight of its real appeal to the ruling classes.
A sense that they too might have reasons to rebel. or maybe
in our classless age, there are no elites, and therefore no
reason to appeal to that old fashion sense of the elites.
Ah well, its time to move on, tomorrow they'll be a quiet majority
championing the remake of the matrix, and those fans will also
be disappointed at what follows their fulfilled wishes....
Say, is there a Matrix group anyone? ;)
Be seeing you.
David Catterall
> Say, is there a Matrix group anyone? ;)
If it had a Beginning,
it would have had an End.
D.
FishFood
Oh please don't get me started....
There is no beginning or ending, there is just the cycle,
and the endless upgrades, who are until they are not...
moorl...@gmail.com
"The author of this interesting new book, out later this month, would like to
> > distance himself from the questionable advertising line above. He hated the
> > remake and would like to make it clear that he has not the remotest
> > admiration for the 2009 series."
"Moreover, the recent US remake of The Prisoner starring Ian MacKellan and Jim Caviezel had won him [McGoohan] a whole new generation of fans in 2010"
Looks like the press release says exactly what it found written in the tin.
John W Kennedy
"The Caviezel version of 'The Prisoner' was a very poor thing."
and
"The Caviezel version of 'The Prisoner' encouraged many people to look
into the original version."
--
John W Kennedy
"Sweet, was Christ crucified to create this chat?"
-- Charles Williams. "Judgement at Chelmsford"
Moor Larkin
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second is not.
Whilst the first can only be a matter of opinion, the second can
presumably be a matter of fact.
But did the second happen? Not in my village, partly because hardly
anyone watched the Caviezel show anyway. But if it didn't happen, why
is it written as if it had?
The quote in the book does rather remind me of the pre-publicity for
the Caviezel outing, by the TV companies:
"...executive producer Damien Timmer states. “The new series will
entrap you from the opening scene. We hope it will tap into this
iconic show's existing cult following, whilst creating a whole new
generation of fans...”
http://www.sixofone.org.uk/Prisoner-Remake.htm