Originally posted by bogeyman
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Previously on "The Prisoner"
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Stayed at Portmeirion Hotel (in one of the Village rooms) over the New Year for a few days...
I remember waking up early on New Years Day and walking around 'the Village' - no one else about, misty, very eerie indeed.
Remarkable place, remarkable series, remarkable actor.
Well worth a visit
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The original was crap.
It has only achieved cult status because it is so surreal.
It is so surreal because it was cancelled before any of the episodes which would explain it were made.
If it had been left to run its course we would not be discussing it now.
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Originally posted by bogeyman View PostYep.
It was very much of it's time. Avantgarde, ambiguous, experimental.
Nothing made sense, but it didn't have to because it was so cool.
McGoohan was a genius. He admited later that they just made it up as they went along. When they started filming they had no idea how it would end.
The opening titles have got to the the coolest of any TV programme, ever:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AL7npkSXZE
Might just wait for the Blu Ray version.
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Originally posted by Clippy View Post...
So, by the sound of it, it would be worth me watching the original series.
It was very much of it's time. Avantgarde, ambiguous, experimental.
Nothing made sense, but it didn't have to because it was so cool.
McGoohan was a genius. He admited later that they just made it up as they went along. When they started filming they had no idea how it would end.
The opening titles have got to the the coolest of any TV programme, ever:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AL7npkSXZE
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Originally posted by Tingles View PostOh dear....
Did they have to wait for Pat M to die before the made / released it?
In fact, the old man in the trailer, who appears at 0:40, was apparently meant to be Patrick McGoohan but he wasn't able to do it for some reason.
Originally posted by wurzel View PostI seem to recall they did a one off remake of it back in the 80s with Jools Holland as the prisoner & Stephen Fry as the creepy guy,was pretty good but never repeated AFAIK
Originally posted by bogeyman View PostI have a bad feeling about this.
Whenever the yanks remake a British classic they invariably cock it up.
The Prisoner wasn't a yank FFS!
Look what they did to The Italian Job.
Why can't they keep their greasy Hollywood paws off our classics?
(oh, maybe because they've run out of original ideas)
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Oh gawd!
And I see someone has made a film of the classic "Picture of Dorien Gray" 'cept in the advert they pronounce it Doreen Gray! And for that reason alone Pogle will NOT being going to see it, despite rather liking the book.
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Originally posted by dinker View PostGordon Brown should be Number One.
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Originally posted by wurzel View PostNot that I saw it but I would imagine that the remake of the Pink Panther would be a case in point. I normally quite like Steve Martin but nobody is fit to fill Peter Seller's role in those films IMO.
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Originally posted by bogeyman View PostWhenever the yanks remake a British classic they invariably cock it up.
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