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The Wicker Man

Allyboo

I was glad to watch The Wicker Man on BBC4 last night youtu.be/MXq-NuS24fg and the documentary afterwards 'Ex:S The Wicker Man' made in 1998. This year is it's 50th anniversary (and mine too). I'm also pleased to have seen it on big screen once at a music festival over 20 years ago. 'The film's themes of religious fanaticism and the clash between faith and reason are still relevant today, and the film's unique style and atmosphere continue to be captivating.'

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  • Really good cast, I remember the first time I saw it and wow. I didn’t see it until about 20 years ago, I don’t think my parents would have felt it appropriate, add Christopher Lee to any film and it becomes eerie, Edward Woodward was a favourite as The Equalizer and who can forget Hot Fuzz?  ‘The Greater Good’. He was married to Michele Dotrice. Edward only got the roll in The Wicker Man because Michael York had turned it down, I think Edward was a better choice.

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  • Really good cast, I remember the first time I saw it and wow. I didn’t see it until about 20 years ago, I don’t think my parents would have felt it appropriate, add Christopher Lee to any film and it becomes eerie, Edward Woodward was a favourite as The Equalizer and who can forget Hot Fuzz?  ‘The Greater Good’. He was married to Michele Dotrice. Edward only got the roll in The Wicker Man because Michael York had turned it down, I think Edward was a better choice.

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  • in reply to Roy

    I don't think my parents would've either although they have been consistently inconsistent imo+experience (one minute they seemed to see+treat me as the if I was the second coming on Christ and the next minute as the Devil incarnate Upside down ) e.g. I remember watching The Omen with the adults in my family (we only had one TV in the home, a black+white one which needed to be switched  on 10 minutes in advance to allow it time to warm up (stop flickering) and manually tune it in (+ no remote control either)) during a 'festive season' when I was still in primary school which was inappropriate and understandably unsettling for me.  In my teenage years in the late 1980s I progressed to having my own portable black+white TV and looked forward to watching The Equaliser religiously every week on It. It didn't mention about Michael York in the documentary (which had Edward Woodward in it, I especially liked when it showed him revisiting the pub/tavern and some local people who were originally involved in the film were there too). Some say that the name Edward Woodward is like the sound of a fart in the bath Stuck out tongue closed eyes