Alan Bates, Michael Caine, Sean Connery, Tom
Courtenay, Albert Finney, Richard Harris, Peter O'Toole,
Robert Shaw and Terence Stamp: They are the most
formidable acting generation ever to tread the boards or
stare into a camera, whose anti-establishment attitude
changed the cultural landscape of Britain. This was a
new breed, many culled from the working class industrial
towns of Britain, and nothing like them has been seen
before or since. Their raw earthy brilliance brought
realism to a whole range of groundbreaking theatre from
John Osborne's Look Back in Anger to Joan Littlewood and
Harold Pinter and the creation of the National Theatre.
And they ripped apart the staid, middle class British
film industry with kitchen sink classics like Saturday
Night and Sunday Morning, This Sporting Life, The
Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, A Kind of Loving
and Billy Liar before turning their sights on
international stardom: Connery with James Bond, O'Toole
as Lawrence of Arabia, Finney with Tom Jones and Caine
in Zulu.Don't Let the Bastards Grind You Down brings
alive the trail-blazing period of theatre and film from
1[zasłonięte]956-19 through the vibrant energy and exploits of
this revolutionary generation of stars who bulldozed
over austerity Britain and paved the way for the
swinging 60s. What Peter Biskind's 'Easy Riders Raging
Bulls' did for American cinema writing so 'Don't Let the
Bastards' will do for the British cinema. |
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