Britainology 63: Layer Cake (2004)
For this month's first Britainology, we watched the 2004 UK gangster movie LAYER CAKE, featuring a much younger Daniel Craig, a very Essex'ed-up Sienna Miller, and a very unknown-at-the-time Tom Hardy. And it's a good movie! Which we enjoyed! And had a lot of fun talking about, especially as regards it being a snapshot of peak Blair years Britain.
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The best swordsman in the world doesn't fear the second best. He fears the worst because he has no idea what the idiot will do.
oh and “Ordinary World” by Duran Duran is playing on the radio in the background of the scene before the climax of the song cuts in, so there is a build-up but the sound mixing is done so you don’t really notice that until a second watch through
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everyone in the comments section should do themselves a favour and seek out and watch 'Face', directed by Antonia Bird and starring Robert Carlyle, Ray Winston in a Dalek jumper, Phil 'Parklife' Daniels and...Damon Albarn
Australia let gays in the military in 1992 which by your metrics makes it ~10 years gayer than the UK and ~20 years gayer than the United States
"what if a serbian was dutch" is a premise i didnt know i needed
I mean, to me the Shard looks like a butt plug
Varus, give me back my Sandero!!!
Craig either had some work or grew into his face cause after years of finding him uniquely off-putting seaming I was shocked at how attractive and magnetic he looked in this
Actually wait given Craig and Hardy and Whislaw in this this this could’ve been the most bisexual twink shoot in English history
I agree that "The Long Good Friday" has narrative problems and business being equated to gangsterism is hardly a new idea in film, but it's rarely been pulled off so strongly and presciently in that film. Although, granted, it shows its age and low-budget today, it’s remarkable how clearly The Long Good Friday predicts the London Docklands property boom, the quasi-gangster undertones of Thatcherism as well as Britain's post-Imperial desire to be at the centre of an increasingly globalised economy. I had to chuckle at the reference to "the 1988 London Olympics," knowing that it foreshadows the empty neoliberal gentrification around Stratford and Hackney Wick in 2012... It also 'predicts' much of the tenor of future gangster films as well — I challenge anyone not to see the character of Jimmy Price in Layer Cake, too, another film that successfully engages with the later New Labour political economy whilst being highly entertaining at the same time. Anyway, c'mon, the last scene! Someone should make a 'third' vaguely-canonic film today about a supply-chain constrained post-austerity London.
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"Fuck you, you are callous"
The gangster girlfriend, Slasher, is played by Sally Hawkins, well before Happy Go Lucky. The cast in this movie is hella great. My jaw dropped when I saw ben Whishlaw in The Lobster and realized that he's THAT GUY. It didn't come to the US until the spring of 2005, and it was the movie my wife and I saw on our second date. I had recently come back from my first trip to London and I agree, that period was as great as London got after the Mod 66/67 peak. I like how Layer Cake is shot. The color palette is very blonde / yellow.
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I hope they do a cover of Crrnir Bormbarrderi it would absolutely make my day
It’s a right royal cockney barrel of monkeys, and no mistake. https://youtu.be/1bb_Pfgu-wg