Everyone talking about how great Ben Kingsley is in this movie but I'm just here to say let's give credit to Ray Winstone too, he knocks it out the park in this film.
Ben Kingsley is absolutely brilliant in this film, I can't think of another actor that could pull off the character of Dom. Always has me in stitches when he's talking to himself about Band-aid, he's got a point it wont snow in Africa
The main thing that bothers me about Bob is his chosen subject matter for his hit 'I don't like Mondays'. The thought process must have been; Hey I know, let's write a ditty about that woman who blew away some teachers and crippled some schoolkids with a rifle. The follow up singles could have been based on: Columbine High School shooting, Shootings at Simon's Rock College, Bethel Regional High School shooting, and the Pearl High School shooting. Apart from''...feeling bad..'' about making the shooter famous did Bob help the victims with his royalties?
Wayne Simpson Couldn't agree more, the man's a complete and utter tosser. The persona he tries to portray to the public is different to his real one. Midge Ure was really done down by Geldolf - Geldolf wanted to be the big star of Band Aid and wanted praise for doing so too. Funny how he changed the play list order at the last minute on the day so that the Boomtown rats could play in front of Diana & Charles - Not quite the big socialist anti establishment lover he makes out to be............
What a superb actor this bloke is. I love him in Without a Clue with Michael Caine and then he makes something like this. Shows the range. And the character of Don Logan is played brilliantly. Not hammy but with just the right psychotic edge. You can imagine this bloke being real - in fact Kingsley said he based the character on his grandmother!!!! All the cast are brilliant but I think Big Ben steals it. “I would appreciate if you had a word with him. Let him know he’s been rumbled.” 😂
That fast drumming soundtrack when Logan is striding through the airport, I liken that to weaving in and out of lanes on the M8 in Glasgow, touching cloth, dyin for a shite, sweating it and driving like a fiend to get home for a donald trump!
Ben Kingsley deserves all the credit he gets but not enough is made of Ray Winston’s performance. It was stellar. He played Gal to absolute perfection but Don was such a big character that he gets all the attention.
Don was a very showy performance, over the top and grabs your attentions. Gal was much more nuanced and understated, which is much harder to act IMO - and Winstone does it masterfully.
Thanks for heads up, was wondering what this other movie was with Don Logan in it, was readying up for getting on Amazon for a copy once I got the title... Comic relief special? Disappointing man, would pay good money to see Don Logan in a prequel...
Met guys like him when I lived in Spitalfields, London in the early 90's. Scary 'hard' men in their 50's who could smash your face in if you looked at them the wrong way in a pub. Went for a pint in the Pride of Spitalfields pub recently, it was like a cockney time warp amongst the multi-cultural businesses in the area - except back then you wouldn't go in there for a casual pint for fear of getting your head kicked in by a Don Logan type, you know what I mean, Idi Amin!
@@eddiemclaughlin726 Yup. I grew up and still live in South London. Nearly every pub was like that BITD. Cockney pubs, black pubs, Irish pubs (and the 'mixed' pubs). You couldn't fuck around in any of them! Everywhere's gentrified now, so pubs like that are few and far between, but there are still some out there. My local is one. You still get proper locals in there.
Nothing is more chilling than the sheer 'I don't give a fuck' mentality he exhibits when told to put out the cigarette. Combative people are easy to deal with, people like this are far scarier.
The two best gangster movies England has produced, "Get Carter" & Sexy Beast " I recall the Richard Attenborough gangster movie "The Brighton Rock" with shocking phoney cockney accents, or the Dirk Bogard gangster movie phoney cockney accents, I remember Sir Michael Cain telling a story that him and his pals used to fall about laughing leaving the Cinema years ago at the lack of regional accents,
The 1947 film of Brighton Rock actually has quite a few London born actors in the cast and as it is set in errr.... Brighton, they really don't have to sound like 'Cockneys'. Ben Kingsley was born in North Yorkshire, English mother, father of Indian descent. So, not a lot of Cockney blood there.
