Re:Unseen Thunderbirds film reels found in garden shed
by GJim on Wednesday October 09, 2024 @06:14AM
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> You're talking about the generation that grew up with Monty Python and The Goodies
Yet would be entirely baffled at the concept of a British panto.
> ball-shaped droid with a Cockney accent
That my friend, was the voice of the one and only Windsor Davis, initiating his role as St Mjr from 'It ain't half hot mum'. Though I do recall a Scottish zeriod ("droid") and one with a French accent and handlebar moustache.
Re:Unseen Thunderbirds film reels found in garden shed
by RichardCA on Wednesday October 09, 2024 @01:38PM
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> Yet would be entirely baffled at the concept of a British panto.
Monty Python, and in particular Terry Gilliam's animation style, were both heavily panto influenced.
It was also a nerd rite-of-passage to watch Eraserhead which was directed by David Lynch, who then got to direct the Elephant Man.
The panto scene at the end of Elephant Man is one of the few scenes in a movie that wrecks me every time I watch it. Unfortunately it gets scrubbed every time someone posts it online.
We were also familiar with the latex puppets because of Spitting Image and the Genesis "Land of Confusion" video.
And the idea of a ball-shaped droid with a Cockney accent just seemed like a big miscalculation, unworthy of the Anderson legacy.
But to be fair, if you go back and watch Space: 1999, most of the episodes aged poorly in retrospect except for one of two of them (e.g., Dragon's Domain still holds up).