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Play for today: The black stuff.

  • 19-09-2010 11:03pm
    #1
    Deliverance
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    Not sure if it counts as a movie due to it inspiring a series. But sweet jebus what a great experience as a watch about the 80's recession in Britain.

    A tragic comedy that shows the hardship suffered by the lads at the time trying to get by with what they had.

    The build up and realisation of the characters was incredible. Yosser as an iconic character was born out of this 'film'. I have to say it kind of blew me away because of it's depth and realism.

    It is easy to watch as a piece of entertainment. At the same time I found it tragic as a kind of docu-drama if I could call it that. Well worth a watch.


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  • #2
    Ann22
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    It's actually 'Boys from the Black Stuff'. I don't know if it was shown during the BBC's Play for Today series though:confused:. I remember that well, it used to be on, on a Thursday night. My mam and dad would go to bingo and leave my 13yr old sister minding us. Great craic it was, watching Play for today...sometimes we'd see nekked people:D.


  • #3
    mikom
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    Ann22 wrote: »
    It's actually 'Boys from the Black Stuff'.

    Wrong.
    'Boys from the Black Stuff' the episodes were was a sequel to the television play "The Black Stuff".


  • #4
    Deliverance
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    Yeah it was shown as a play for today 1hr 45mins long of pure tragic entertainment. Boys from the Black stuff I know well as a great series.

    Yosser was superb in the plays' build up. A v.tragic character built up amazingly well with the other characters.


  • #5
    Ann22
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    mikom wrote: »
    Wrong.
    'Boys from the Black Stuff' the episodes were was a sequel to the television play "The Black Stuff".

    Oh right, sorry Mikom. I didn't know that.


  • #6
    bonerm
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    This show is defo worth a watch. IIRC the play for today involved a trip to Middlesbrough to do a tarmacing job on the sly and then the tv show "The Boys From the Blackstuff" was a series of 4 or 5 episodes, each focusing on one each of the main characters from the play - invariably centering around the theme of unemployment and the search for work. Hense the famous "giz a job" phrase coined by Yosser Hughes.


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  • #7
    mike65
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    BBC4 are screening the Boys series as well, starts on Sunday at 9.30. I remmeber it from the first time round. Given the state of the economy its return is well timed.


  • #8
    Kess73
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    Brilliant series and pilot episode/tv movie that can leave you laughing madly one minute and slack jawed the next.

    I can remember when it was being filmed, and as someone who was living in Liverpool during that period, I can safely say that a hell of a lot of what happens in it is art imitating life rather than the other way around.


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