#john moulder-brown

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Deep End (1970) dir. Jerzy Skolimowski

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John Moulder-Brown in La residencia (1969)

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Helmut Berger e John Moulder-Brown en Ludwig (dir. Luchino Visconti, 1972)

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Deep End (1970)

dir. Jerzy Skolimowski

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1970  Deep End

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A Pál utcai fiúk - 1968. Rendezte: Fábri Zoltán. Főszerepben: Anthony Kemp, William Burleigh, Robert Efford, John Moulder-Brown, Julien Holdaway, Törőcsik Mari. https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/magyarfilmekatolcettig

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Deep End (1970) Jerzy Skolimowski

July 25th 2024

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Jane and John Moulder-Brown in ‘Deep End’🌺🩵

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Deep End

We’re used to inspirational coming of age tales, so when Jerzy Skolimowski gifted the world with an absurdist take on the subject in DEEP END (1970, Criterion until today, Plex) many critics didn’t know what to do make of it. Some even found it offensive. John Moulder-Brown is a 15-year-old who’s dropped out of school and found a job at a bath house (not that kind of bath house). Although he had a flirtation in school, his real sexual awakening comes from his growing obsession with an older co-worker (Jane Asher) who’s alternately seductive and dismissive, because she’s hasn’t come of age either. The film is at times queasily funny, as when a blowsy customer (Diana Dors), mauls Moulder-Brown while raving about football and getting the ball into the goal. When Moulder-Brown follows Asher and her wealthy, callous fiancé to a porn theatre, there’s a screamingly funny take-off on “instructional” sex films of the era. But Skolimoski also plants more unsettling elements. Moulder-Brown gets violent when he discovers Asher is also having an affair with his former PE teacher. At one point he runs by a brothel that has a cardboard cut-out of a naked woman who may or may not be Asher. He steals it and swims naked with it in the bath house pool until its head comes off. Asher and Moulder-Brown are both very good (they rehearsed extensively together and even improvised some of their scenes). She ties together the conflicting urges of a young woman who hasn’t yet figured out who she is or what she wants. He hits all the right notes as his character ranges from boyish enthusiasm to misplaced braggadocio, brattiness and eventually fury. This is a great film from a great, almost forgotten filmmaker who apprenticed with Roman Polanski and found his own voice in exile from his native Poland.

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John Moulder-Brown in La Madrastra (1974)

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Deep End (1970) Jerzy Skolimowski

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"I thought he was an extraordinary looking man. Helmut is a wonderful actor. He looked like Ludwig, and I think he was magnificent in the part. He was, at all times, charming to me. We went out together." — John Moulder-Brown

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Deep End (1970)

dir. Jerzy Skolimowski

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Bioware made some Decisions about softening factions/moral disagreements/etc in Veilguard, but to me the one that's simply bizarre is...Tevinter slavery???

Because it's so incredibly unnecessary. Because the faction you connect with is the Shadow Dragons, abolitionist agitators. You really wouldn't have to deal much with people who think slavery is ok, because they are hardly going to be your allies. Neve is your Shadow Dragon contact, so whatever else, she shares those beliefs enough to be in good odor with them.

(And there is nothing unbefitting of her noir nature in "fighting the injustice in the very structure of society that one person cannot overcome". Forget it, Jake, it's Chinatown Minrathous.)

They wrote Dorian as having pulled his head out of his ass and incorporated "you can't treat people well and enslave them" into his worldview, which isn't much of a stretch considering. He and Maevaris are, in fact, abolitionist politicians, not powerful enough to get anything done but just too powerful to easily get rid of. Real life has had plenty of those.

So...why bother to soften or erase that Tevinter is a slave state? It's not like we have any friendly characters who support it, including the Tevenes, unless I've missed something. They could not have party arguments about slavery the easy way!

So - I made an elf mage Shadow Dragon, okay, because that seemed interesting, but in practice the game doesn't give me much to work with. No conversation about what happens to elven slaves who manifest magic. About how far just "mage" doesn't get you around here. Hell, in the backstory they had her bust up an underground Venatori slave market, which is, frankly BS of the highest order! There don't need to be underground slave markets; there are regular markets for that! The whole point is that she and they took down completely legal places of business, because the law in Tevinter is evil! The Venatori don't have to coup Minrathous to go after them; the government already should be.

Softening it is so wildly unnecessary compared to e.g. the Crows, to the story they wanted to tell, that I'm just ??? confused more than anything.