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offline VLetr from London (United Kingdom) on 2004-06-02 05:33 [#01219068]
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any other fans of this film from 1973?

i love how the islanders break into song at every
opportunity for jovial paganism.

okay maybe it's all a bit silly but the end is awesome, and
the film's message is interesting; in the scenes with the
lord, the stubborn dogmatism of the christian police officer
seems more ridiculous and arbitrary than the religious
beliefs of the islanders. interesting stuff.


 

offline Drunken Mastah from OPPERKLASSESVIN!!! (Norway) on 2004-06-02 05:37 [#01219073]
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the description seems beautiful.

I'll buy it today.


 

offline marlowe from Antarctica on 2004-06-02 05:39 [#01219077]
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I've seen it a few times - it's quite good.


 

offline bill_hicks from my city is amazing it is calle on 2004-06-02 05:42 [#01219081]
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Scariest film ever. I keep hoping that a helicopter will
come to rescue him. But no - he gets roasted by a bunch of
bible bashing nutters.


 

offline VLetr from London (United Kingdom) on 2004-06-02 05:42 [#01219082]
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boards of canada should do an alternative soundtrack for it.
the moods fit exactly: all rural and scottish and beautiful,
but with undercurrents of menace and sinister things afoot.


 

offline Drunken Mastah from OPPERKLASSESVIN!!! (Norway) on 2004-06-02 05:43 [#01219083]
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ehm.. but this isn't like that "gingerbread man" film, where
I sit and expect a gingerbread man, and there is no
gingerbread man, 'cause he's only a story, right?


 

offline VLetr from London (United Kingdom) on 2004-06-02 05:44 [#01219084]
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but really, he's the bible bashing nutter... until the
killing starts, of course.


 

offline VLetr from London (United Kingdom) on 2004-06-02 05:45 [#01219085]
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LOL sorry to disappoint you drunken: no, there is no
CGI-enhanced animated wicker man.


 

offline Drunken Mastah from OPPERKLASSESVIN!!! (Norway) on 2004-06-02 05:46 [#01219088]
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AAARGH!

I wanted a wicker man (whatever wicker may be...)!

anyhow.. it's probably a good film, and I'll try to get a
hold of it...


 

offline mappatazee from ¨y¨z¨| (Burkina Faso) on 2004-06-02 05:50 [#01219093]
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Thumping, not bashing.


 

offline mappatazee from ¨y¨z¨| (Burkina Faso) on 2004-06-02 05:50 [#01219095]
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Wicker is a good word. The wicked king of wicker.


 

offline Drunken Mastah from OPPERKLASSESVIN!!! (Norway) on 2004-06-02 05:51 [#01219096]
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but what the fuck IS it?


 

offline mappatazee from ¨y¨z¨| (Burkina Faso) on 2004-06-02 05:52 [#01219099]
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is WHAT?


 

offline marlowe from Antarctica on 2004-06-02 05:54 [#01219103]
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dickheads


 

offline Drunken Mastah from OPPERKLASSESVIN!!! (Norway) on 2004-06-02 05:55 [#01219105]
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wicker...


 

offline mappatazee from ¨y¨z¨| (Burkina Faso) on 2004-06-02 05:56 [#01219108]
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Christ man. Isn't this the internet after all?

wicker
\Wick"er\, a. Made of, or covered with, twigs or osiers, or
wickerwork.

Each one a little wicker basket had, Made of fine twigs,
entrail['e]d curiously. --Spenser.



 

offline Ceri JC from Jefferson City (United States) on 2004-06-02 05:57 [#01219110]
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***SPOILERS***

It's a great film. Brilliant folk soundtrack too.

Fun facts:

A script for the sequel does exist, and the copper is still
alive, albeit horribly burned.

They are/were planning a remake in America, with the pagan
community being out in the deep south. However, this
wouldn't be as good, as the yanks never were pagans- it was
catholics who emmigrated there... so there would be no
indiginous pagan belief.

There was a real wicker man near where I used to work in
Somerset. Funny little villages around there...


 

offline Ceri JC from Jefferson City (United States) on 2004-06-02 05:58 [#01219112]
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wicker-wikka, rewind!


 

offline KainiIndustries from over the roof floats billy on 2004-06-02 05:58 [#01219113]
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The cover of Geogaddi is influenced by a scene in the movie,
according to DavidAC


 

offline Drunken Mastah from OPPERKLASSESVIN!!! (Norway) on 2004-06-02 06:03 [#01219119]
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I don't use the internet.


 

offline mappatazee from ¨y¨z¨| (Burkina Faso) on 2004-06-02 06:06 [#01219122]
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Cool man.


 


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