Gregory's Girl (1981) (BFI)

[NoFro]

Also thought this looked fantastic.

[HeckYourUp]

Watched it for the first time a few days ago so don't have any comparison to previous releases. But to my eyes, it looked great.

[redxrebellion]

So where’s the best place to pick this up if I’m in the US?

[jeffarent]

Originally Posted by redxrebellion

So where’s the best place to pick this up if I’m in the US?

Diabolikdvd.com

[Nitroes]

[dallywhitty]

Aye. What a lovely wee film this was. Ar Gregory's a bit of a fanny, mind, but he's a top lad really. Ye ken?

[CompleteCount]

Originally Posted by dallywhitty

Aye. What a lovely wee film this was. Ar Gregory's a bit of a fanny, mind, but he's a top lad really. Ye ken?

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(Ma midder's kin be Scots, afore ye git ettersome).

[Martoto]

Originally Posted by dallywhitty

Aye. What a lovely wee film this was. Ar Gregory's a bit of a fanny, mind, but he's a top lad really. Ye ken?

We don't talk like that. That's more Kilsyth and Croy.

Most of the folk in Cumbernauld, at that time anyway, had come from Glasgow originally. "Ken" is/was used commonly just about everywhere else except Glasgow for some reason.

Don't hear much "lad" from Glaswegians either. You might hear, "He's some boy." Which also belongs to a set of terms that Glaswegians can use endearingly but also in a macabre sense of understatement, which is reminiscent of more widely known English understatement. "He's some boy" could refer to anyone with a conspicuous habit. e.g. They would eat a whole packet of Jaffa Cakes between meals. or e.g. They murdered fifteen people.

But more often than not, you will hear "He's a sound c***." as the equivalent of "He's a good lad." So, shout out to all you sound c***s out there.

[dallywhitty]

Originally Posted by Martoto

We don't talk like that. That's more Kilsyth and Croy.

Most of the folk in Cumbernauld, at that time anyway, had come from Glasgow originally. "Ken" is/was used commonly just about everywhere else except Glasgow for some reason.

Don't hear much "lad" from Glaswegians either. You might hear, "He's some boy." Which also belongs to a set of terms that Glaswegians can use endearingly but also in a macabre sense of understatement, which is reminiscent of more widely known English understatement. "He's some boy" could refer to anyone with a conspicuous habit. e.g. They would eat a whole packet of Jaffa Cakes between meals. or e.g. They murdered fifteen people.

But more often than not, you will hear "He's a sound c***." as the equivalent of "He's a good lad." So, shout out to all you sound c***s out there.

Okay.

[Ben_C]

Originally Posted by dallywhitty

Okay.

[dobyblue]

Originally Posted by Martoto

We don't talk like that. That's more Kilsyth and Croy.

Most of the folk in Cumbernauld, at that time anyway, had come from Glasgow originally. "Ken" is/was used commonly just about everywhere else except Glasgow for some reason.

Cumbernauld in the '80s was such a great place for families. My aunt moved out there in the late 1970s from Blairdardie, I loved visiting them because it meant a longer train ride to Springburn and then on to Cumbernauld.

Good times.

And yeah, I've never heard anyone in Glasgow speak like that, you certainly would read a lot of that dialect in comic strips like Broons/Wullie but not in person in Glasgow.

[Agent Kay]

If the exact dialogue was performed today it would be seen as disgusting, but its pure innocence even with its obsession with sex.
Its always been a film I loved.

[Olmo]

Originally Posted by Agent Kay

If the exact dialogue was performed today it would be seen as disgusting, but its pure innocence even with its obsession with sex.
Its always been a film I loved.

It was a rite of passage to watch this rites of passage in my day (Gregory's Girl was released when I was 9). Like Kes, it chimes with so many people of my generation, it's so evocative seeing The Specials, The Jam & Kate Bush posters on Gordon's wall, oh! and the Proustian Rush of a Wimpy bar.

Schooldays were never that idyllic of course (hour long dinner breaks? football training at 11am??) with benign, quirky teachers but there's a recognition of the us & them played sweetly and non-too sickly.

Watching the film again after say, 15-20 years there certainly are at least a couple of problematic moments even apart from the accepted misogyny of the time - the teacher with the cup-cake's comments and Billy's regarding Gregory's 13 yr old Sister Madeleine that would make Russell Brand blanche.

Having said that, it's to be encouraged that this hasn't been excised à la The French Connection in presenting dialogue and attitudes that were, for better for worse, prevalent at the time. And whilst veracity isn't essential to Gregory's Girl it's being presented as to how it was intended which should always be the case.

And it shows that for all society's flaws of today we have become more enlightened in certain aspects of respect and in equality.

[dobyblue]

It's definitely not flawless, all the scenes with the Cumbernauld sky in the background during the credits are awful with hair and dirt etc., like a film presentation at the cinema with a very unclean path the film traverses - but as soon as Gregory and Andy are at the bridge discussing Corn Flakes and if Phil Menzies is daft enough to kick Andy off the team (well what I'm getting at, what I mean is, what it all boils down to really is), all that dirt and debris from the credits is gone.

The fine detail here is truly magnificent, absolutely smokes every other version of GG I've seen - no problems from that point onwards through the first 30 mins or so I've managed to watch. What a treat!

Bella, Bella!

[NoFro]

Honestly I never worry too much about what the credits look like with old films, when it's text over filmed sequences. I just accept that they'll probably not look the sharpest and will maybe be a bit rough. As long as the rest looks fantastic, I'm good.

It's funny with some films like Groundhog Day which looks dog rough whilst the credits are rolling and then in a split second it shifts to demo material when the credits end.

[Agent Kay]

Originally Posted by dobyblue

It's definitely not flawless, all the scenes with the Cumbernauld sky in the background during the credits are awful with hair and dirt etc., like a film presentation at the cinema with a very unclean path the film traverses - but as soon as Gregory and Andy are at the bridge discussing Corn Flakes and if Phil Menzies is daft enough to kick Andy off the team (well what I'm getting at, what I mean is, what it all boils down to really is), all that dirt and debris from the credits is gone.

The fine detail here is truly magnificent, absolutely smokes every other version of GG I've seen - no problems from that point onwards through the first 30 mins or so I've managed to watch. What a treat!

Bella, Bella!

The credits were low budget optical elements, its flawless

[dobyblue]

Originally Posted by Agent Kay

The credits were low budget optical elements, its flawless

It's fantastic, it's not flawless. The credits finish at the end of the football game, when Gregory and Menzies chat in the locker room the Second Sight Blu-ray resolves the locker walls more naturally. Behind Menzies in the first shot (BFI 4K), the walls are dancing all over the place like someone is waving a light around. No such issues in the Second Sight presentation.

[ronand]

My copy arrived from Amazon this morning. Initial impressions are good but I have nothing to compare it to as I've never seen it before.