tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8623255227619374869.post2401923725726355639..comments2024-03-19T08:48:37.047+00:00Comments on Prison UK: An Insider's View: Behind the Silver Screen: British Prison FilmsPrisonUKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05060870139110580938noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8623255227619374869.post-36080148895993330492016-09-29T23:22:26.952+01:002016-09-29T23:22:26.952+01:00Scrubbers is an old but good prison film,similar t...Scrubbers is an old but good prison film,similar to Scum but set in a female prison.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8623255227619374869.post-57884117724652816572016-09-11T21:41:25.977+01:002016-09-11T21:41:25.977+01:00I once saw a really great film based around a grou...I once saw a really great film based around a group of actors who go into a prison and work with the inmates. I can't remember the name of the film - can anyone help?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8623255227619374869.post-7110697803602524992015-11-11T12:07:38.871+00:002015-11-11T12:07:38.871+00:00Hi
Would you be at large to write a post about th...Hi<br /><br />Would you be at large to write a post about the process of going to jail? Such as what happens as soon as you leave court, first night, inductions etc?<br /><br />ThanksAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8623255227619374869.post-70153945151360896412015-11-09T17:48:26.610+00:002015-11-09T17:48:26.610+00:00Love Starred Up and Cell 211. Prophet was bleak an...Love Starred Up and Cell 211. Prophet was bleak and gritty. Shaun Attwoodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14332977761572848977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8623255227619374869.post-47424414541253453592015-11-08T16:01:32.288+00:002015-11-08T16:01:32.288+00:00Thanks for your contribution.Thanks for your contribution.PrisonUKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05060870139110580938noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8623255227619374869.post-1776302006335733892015-11-08T16:01:10.751+00:002015-11-08T16:01:10.751+00:00Thanks for your comments, Martina. This has proved...Thanks for your comments, Martina. This has proved to be an unexpectedly popular blog post. Over 600 people have already read it, which just shows the interest in prison-themed films.PrisonUKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05060870139110580938noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8623255227619374869.post-52523136932380678462015-11-08T15:59:01.207+00:002015-11-08T15:59:01.207+00:00Thanks for your comment. I'm glad that you wer...Thanks for your comment. I'm glad that you were interested enough to do some research. Mr Bronson/Salvador seems to me to be a prime example of how prison time can reduce a person with mental health problems to little better than an animal-like existence. I challenge anyone to live naked in a cage for even a short time to emerge unscathed, let alone for months or even years. <br /><br />I've met similar - if not as notorious - men inside prison who kick off purely because of the mind-numbing boredom. Some of them are illiterate so have little else to divert them. Getting into a fight with other inmates or assaulting a wing officer (even better a governor if they can get at one) provides a little sideshow. <br /><br />I'm afraid the ongoing personality cult surrounding Mr Salvador - which most serving prisoners consider to be nonsense - really isn't doing him any good. In the absence of any appropriate support or rehabilitation strategy I imagine this circus will just go on until he dies in some dark segregation cell.PrisonUKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05060870139110580938noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8623255227619374869.post-21704831368268118502015-11-08T15:51:02.870+00:002015-11-08T15:51:02.870+00:00Try Andy Warhol's 'Empire' (see above)...Try Andy Warhol's 'Empire' (see above) or his film 'Sleep' and that would be a good analogy with prison life!PrisonUKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05060870139110580938noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8623255227619374869.post-15138785613457984612015-11-08T15:49:34.032+00:002015-11-08T15:49:34.032+00:00Thanks for your comments. I definitely agree with ...Thanks for your comments. I definitely agree with that analysis. I wrote about it last yet in a post about the 'Long littleness of prison life'. As regimes have come under pressure from understaffing ('benchmarking') and other resource issues, daily life - which was already pretty monotonous - appears to have got much worse. <br /><br />I suspect a truly accurate prison film might be more like Andy Warhol's unwatchable 8 hour black and white movie 'Empire' (1964) which just consists of the camera focused on the Empire State Building or his other 'masterpiece' 'Sleep' (1963) which just shows a bloke sleeping for over five hours. <br /><br />Funnily enough, I was told much the same as your comment about 'Porridge' by an old and wise wing officer who had seen it all during his 25+ years in HMPS. He once remarked that being in the slammer "was more like 'Porridge' than 'Scum'".PrisonUKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05060870139110580938noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8623255227619374869.post-86367715298072870372015-11-02T17:55:23.869+00:002015-11-02T17:55:23.869+00:00Jonathon Asser wrote "Starred Up" after ...Jonathon Asser wrote "Starred Up" after he worked as a Shame/Violence Intervention therapist at HMP Wandsworth.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8623255227619374869.post-1915917575729346362015-10-28T20:41:02.768+00:002015-10-28T20:41:02.768+00:00somehow i can't post a comment without replyin...somehow i can't post a comment without replying to one, sorry...<br /><br />i think the writer for 'starred up' is not an ex-con but someone deeply fascinated by prisons. he basically wrote himself into the film as the therapist. <br /><br />i loved loved loved 'everyday'. there's something so quiet and devastating about it, i love how because it's told over so much time, the impact is felt so much more. <br /><br />bronson, although i loved it, is too artsy to be a real prison movie. <br /><br />~martinaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8623255227619374869.post-40033203117780821582015-10-27T09:03:38.457+00:002015-10-27T09:03:38.457+00:00Your comment on Bronson/Salvardori or whatever pro...Your comment on Bronson/Salvardori or whatever prompted me to look him up on Wiki. His career is absolutely astonishing. Of course he would have started off at a disadvantage being reared in a conservative club plus having a depressing dismal dump such as Luton for a home town.<br />I think your right in your assessment, they don’t know what to do with him when it is pretty obvious he is psychotic. No institution for the criminally insane wants or can contain him so he is locked in some deep dungeon. He probably could be redeemed/cured but nobody seems to be doing much about it. They just, as you have pointed out, allow him to be treated as some sort of exhibit which just feeds his sickness and makes him worse.<br />I also noticed that there is a movement to have him released onto an unsuspecting public in his current condition.<br />Sad old world<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8623255227619374869.post-48063602447831928982015-10-19T19:17:55.967+01:002015-10-19T19:17:55.967+01:00I managed to watch hours of "Waiting for Godo...I managed to watch hours of "Waiting for Godot" in one sitting, I'm sure I could watch a film about tedium in Prison.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8623255227619374869.post-18458426659657467662015-10-19T18:12:25.711+01:002015-10-19T18:12:25.711+01:00Macvicar and Wally Probyn, were in fact consultant...Macvicar and Wally Probyn, were in fact consultants on the film about Macvicar and his prison escape .....they do get information galore on films re prison but i understand what you mean.....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8623255227619374869.post-28510160119531675192015-10-19T15:33:04.484+01:002015-10-19T15:33:04.484+01:00Films that focus on tedium are rarely successful w...Films that focus on tedium are rarely successful which is why I think no 'realistic' prison films have been made. <br /><br />As an officer often dealing with prisoners first night I assure newcomers it's more like Porridge than anything else (it helps calm nerves and is pretty true) they may have seen or heard. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8623255227619374869.post-17994817307600146212015-10-19T15:26:41.880+01:002015-10-19T15:26:41.880+01:00I don't think the public is really that intere...I don't think the public is really that interested in a realistic portrayal of life behind bars. If it was realistic it would be incredibly tedious. The movie equivalent of watching paint dry. Days can go past in prison without anything of not happening. All the days seem to blur into one sooner or later and so do the weeks and the months because every day is the same as the day before and the day before that ad nauseum infinitum. The reality of prison is usually mind numbing tedium and no much else.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com