Sunday 29 October 2017

It makes me so sad to see my home town #Glasgow dressed as New York for a film set

It always makes me sad to see the way Glasgow has lost so much of its character amidst the usual panoply of distressing modern life - shopping malls, boutiques, theme pubs, mobile phone shops and suchlike. But it is even worse when anyone considers that it could possibly be mistaken for New York.
The nightmare is made even worse by this article in the iniquitous Mail Online telling of a film being made featuring that annoying luvvie Benderdick Cummersnatch.
The list of errors, grammatical, factual and others, include -
The MailOnline describes this as an "art deco clock" and it is a feature familiar to Glaswegians in Bothwell Street. Anybody with the slightest commonsense can see that it is only the casing that is art deco in design whereas the "clock" itself has Roman numerals. The company - Scottish Life - was founded in the mid 19th century so it is probably safe to assume that the mechanism was rehoused sometime in the 1920s or 1930s and the case may well have been inspired by the work of Charles Rennie McIntosh.

The article caption says of this picture "Power dressing: Extras seen donning an array of outlandish suits for the scenes would look right at home on the set of classic soap Dynasty"
Apart from the fact that I see nothing whatever "outlandish" about their clothing, I'd say that if they were actually "donning" the clothing when the pic was taken they would have been within their rights to inform the police and reporting the photographer as a peeping tom.

The caption for this pic states - "Benedict was spotted in an array of ensembles for the scenes, as he took on the tole of playboy Patrick Melrose from the self-titled novel series"
The school leaver or work experience kid (Laura Fox by name) responsible for this abominable piece is obviously unaware that eponymous would have been a far better choice of word than "self-titled" Evidently she doesn't care to read her own garbage after writing it (and who can blame her?) otherwise she would have changed "tole" to role.
Her article describes Bennydick Cummersnatch as wearing an "array" of outfits for the filming but I could only count three in the pictures.
Needless to say I will NOT be watching this movie when it comes to TV.

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