Richard Burton - Look Back In Anger - Movie Trailer

This is the [very] American trailer for the screen adaptation of John Osbourne's groundbreaking play Look Back in Anger.
It misses the whole point of the play and the character of Jimmy Porter, but it is fascinating to watch.
If you get a chance, watch the film. It is magnificent.

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[Alfrunk]

Burton seems like an overactor.

[mockerlancs]

Burton was very badly cast in 'Look Back In Anger' a Shakespearean barrow boy just does not work, big time! Albert Finney would have been a lot better. Remember 'Saturday Night And Sunday Morning.

[ChocolateFrogPrince]

@ChocolateFrogPrince Ask yourself this; Which British socio-political dramas written for film, TV or theatre in the last 20 years will be regarded with the same esteem that LBIA is two decades hence?

Rather puts the efforts of all those in schemes like In Yer Face into perspective doesn't it?

[ChocolateFrogPrince]

@ChocolateFrogPrince Osborne Amis et al were writing for their own sake and from a position of education and observation. They carefully thought out all of their points and when they put them across they made perfect sense. Too many modern theatre projects dont do that. Empty vessels making lots of noise paid for by schemes oh-so-desparate to tick all the PC boxes.

[ChocolateFrogPrince]

@xXTheSockRockerXx A taste of Honey was more a commentary on social moral attitude rather than socio-political class and social engineering, but your point is well taken.

I'm always a little suspicious of modern projects like In Yer Face. Lots of young people get together to be controversial about current ishoos and yoof relevent subjects. As though rebellion is something new and should be government funded.

[xXTheSockRockerXx]

@ChocolateFrogPrince I think that would be an interesting study, looking at the parallels between the social context of the new wave and now. Makes me think a little bit of In Yer Face theatre and how that tried to recapture audiences and ask questions. Lets not also forget Taste of Honey...slightly better film version than this one I thought.

[ChocolateFrogPrince]

@ChocolateFrogPrince

If you are indeed studying this work then it is important for you to properly put it into the correct socio-political context, which means that you must read further. If you don't understand the environment that created and shaped Porter, how can you understand the man? It may sound like a bit of a slog, but trust me, it's the difference between an A and a C.

[ChocolateFrogPrince]

@xXTheSockRockerXx Not a problem [though next time you might just ask?] The phenomenon of the Angry Young Men was a huge theatre/culture driven movement in the 50s begun at Londons Royal Court Theatre and spearheaded by Osborne and Kingsley Amis [of Lucky Jim fame]. In fact, it may be argued that there are many parallels between that social movement and the one gripping Britain today.

[xXTheSockRockerXx]

@ChocolateFrogPrince Thank you mate, I'm studying this play at the moment and I needed some elaboration. I thought this might be a good place to get a reaction about Look Back In Anger, and it worked! Thanks for the info and sorry for tricking you into giving it to me ;)

[ChocolateFrogPrince]

@ChocolateFrogPrince His affair with Helena is not about infidelity. It is about dominating the very snobbery that belittles and ridicules him. Jimmy Porter MUST sound educated. He MUST sound like he belongs to the upper middle classes at least. If he were played by a cockneysomeone rough like Ray Winstone or Sean Bean no one would believe he was educated at all and the entire premise of the script would be undermined.

You have to start looking further.

[ChocolateFrogPrince]

@xXTheSockRockerXx Which means that you have completely missed Osborne's point about the great 50s social experiment of educating the masses to break the class system. Jimmy Porter was educated out of his class so that he no longer fitted in with those who inhabit the area he came from. However he does not fit in with the upper and middle classes with whom not only his intelligence but now his education puts him at the very least on a par with [as personified by Alison's father ].

[xXTheSockRockerXx]

I can't help but feel that the working class element is really diminished by Burton's acting style and accent....