I loved this film and the directorial effects of strange cutting and overlapping dialogue, but equally I can see these are intensely irritating for others. But isn't it good that sometimes a film challenges you like that?
I actually live in South London, where this man is supposed to come from and I've rarely heard cockney rhyming slang. I have heard 'let's have a butchers' for have a look and the more euphemistic 'I'm having my chalfonts done' (Chalfont St Giles = piles) but nothing else and it seemed very contrived to me to have Wilson spout it and then have to explain it.
That said, this is a great little revenge thriller with Fonda great as a bizarrely toothsome cowardly villain with good support from Newman but it is Stamp who really walks away with this - probably his best outing since Billy Budd.
And yes, I have to agree with an earlier comment as it immediately grated with me and Stamp should have known better. No Brit would ever say 'you wrote me' - we'd always say 'you wrote to me'.
I actually live in South London, where this man is supposed to come from and I've rarely heard cockney rhyming slang. I have heard 'let's have a butchers' for have a look and the more euphemistic 'I'm having my chalfonts done' (Chalfont St Giles = piles) but nothing else and it seemed very contrived to me to have Wilson spout it and then have to explain it.
That said, this is a great little revenge thriller with Fonda great as a bizarrely toothsome cowardly villain with good support from Newman but it is Stamp who really walks away with this - probably his best outing since Billy Budd.
And yes, I have to agree with an earlier comment as it immediately grated with me and Stamp should have known better. No Brit would ever say 'you wrote me' - we'd always say 'you wrote to me'.