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Gold
Based on the the Brink's-Mat robbery, the BBC 1 series is a very engaging. Maybe a bit too tongue in cheek at times and a somewhat rose tinted version of the 'cheeky' villains - nevertheless a good cast of actors clearly had a lot of fun making this series.
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Re: Gold
I haven't seen it, but I hope it does at least acknowledge how vicious that bunch were. They came in with shotguns, doused the guards with petrol, and generally left a lot of mental scars on a lot of people. And Kenneth Noye was a complete murdering psycho, as he later proved. The Italian job, this wasn't.
On a lighter note, I used to know somebody who bought "Goldfinger" John Palmer's Range Rover after the police auctioned it off. (Palmer was the guy who melted down the gold in his garden in Bath, although he was acquitted after pleading that he didn't know where it had come from.) Never in the history of motoring has a car been so lovingly hoovered, checked, stripped and generally dismantled as that one! He didn't find any, though. Or if he did, he never told me.![Neutral :|](./images/smilies/icon_neutral.gif)
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On a lighter note, I used to know somebody who bought "Goldfinger" John Palmer's Range Rover after the police auctioned it off. (Palmer was the guy who melted down the gold in his garden in Bath, although he was acquitted after pleading that he didn't know where it had come from.) Never in the history of motoring has a car been so lovingly hoovered, checked, stripped and generally dismantled as that one! He didn't find any, though. Or if he did, he never told me.
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Re: Gold
Sadly, the characters were all portrayed as cheeky chappy types. Which of course is very far from the truth. I hear that victim's families are very upset about the characterisations.bungeejumper wrote:I haven't seen it, but I hope it does at least acknowledge how vicious that bunch were. They came in with shotguns, doused the guards with petrol, and generally left a lot of mental scars on a lot of people. And Kenneth Noye was a complete murdering psycho, as he later proved. The Italian job, this wasn't.![]()
On a lighter note, I used to know somebody who bought "Goldfinger" John Palmer's Range Rover after the police auctioned it off. (Palmer was the guy who melted down the gold in his garden in Bath, although he was acquitted after pleading that he didn't know where it had come from.) Never in the history of motoring has a car been so lovingly hoovered, checked, stripped and generally dismantled as that one! He didn't find any, though. Or if he did, he never told me.
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Re: Gold
The opening soundtrack to Episode 2 last night was bugging me for a while as it faded in and out
Then I got it
New Order
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxDv_RTdLQo
Brilliant
Then I got it
New Order
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxDv_RTdLQo
Brilliant
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Re: Gold
I went down the Wikipedia rabbit hole after watching it, its surprising how many people ended up dead as a result, the most surprising being Alan Decebral who was going to testify against Noye even though he was a drug dealer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_N ... abral_case
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a quite unnecessary captionJohnB wrote:I went down the Wikipedia rabbit hole after watching it, its surprising how many people ended up dead as a result, the most surprising being Alan Decebral who was going to testify against Noye even though he was a drug dealer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_N ... abral_case
under the picture on that page
“Decabral before he died”
as if he could be sitting upright in a chair in any other state
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Re: Gold
Dunno... from my memory didn't they wobble but not fall down?pje16 wrote:a quite unnecessary captionJohnB wrote:I went down the Wikipedia rabbit hole after watching it, its surprising how many people ended up dead as a result, the most surprising being Alan Decebral who was going to testify against Noye even though he was a drug dealer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_N ... abral_case
under the picture on that page
“Decabral before he died”
as if he could be sitting upright in a chair in any other state
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Re: Gold
I haven’t seen it but would be interested how they covered the ‘cheeky’ Noye stabbing to death the police officer, DC John Fordham, who was carrying out surveillance on him after the robbery.terminal7 wrote:and a somewhat rose tinted version of the 'cheeky' villains
Or did they omit that from their rose tinted story?
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Re: Gold
have just read the summaries hereAF62 wrote:I haven’t seen it but would be interested how they covered the ‘cheeky’ Noye stabbing to death the police officer, DC John Fordham, who was carrying out surveillance on him after the robbery.terminal7 wrote:and a somewhat rose tinted version of the 'cheeky' villains
Or did they omit that from their rose tinted story?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/ ... j/the-gold
looks like it is covered in episode 3
on iPlayer but not aired yet
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Re: Gold
wrt stabbing... it was dealt with but glossed over almost - nothing in depth. Just that huis defence was he was confronted in his garden by a dark clothed, balaclava wearing stranger that struck him, so he lashed out in self-defence
the lead detective did mention several times during the episode "five in the front, five in the back" to make the point that it was a frenzied "self defence"
the lead detective did mention several times during the episode "five in the front, five in the back" to make the point that it was a frenzied "self defence"
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Re: Gold
agreed I almost missed the action.. it WAS glossed over and should have featured properlydidds wrote:wrt stabbing... it was dealt with but glossed over almost - nothing in depth. Just that huis defence was he was confronted in his garden by a dark clothed, balaclava wearing stranger that struck him, so he lashed out in self-defence
the lead detective did mention several times during the episode "five in the front, five in the back" to make the point that it was a frenzied "self defence"
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Re: Gold
And so didn’t portray Noye as the murdering psychopath that he is - but then if they had that wouldn’t be an easy watching BBC entertainment drama.pje16 wrote: agreed I almost missed the action.. it WAS glossed over and should have featured properly
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Re: Gold
A very good point he was seen as happy cheeky chappy who wouldn't hurt a flyAF62 wrote: And so didn’t portray Noye as the murdering psychopath that he is - but then if they had that wouldn’t be an easy watching BBC entertainment drama.
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Re: Gold
Then why do people invite it into their hearthside? Why do you enjoy such "entertainment"?pje16 wrote:don't go outsideCliffEdge wrote:Disgusting that they could even consider making such a piece.
All media nowadays are contaminated by desensitized coarseness.
It's a big bad world out there