Opinion: Another boring result from BGT which has simply become and alternative music talent show to rival it’s sister show X Factor. Scottish singer Jai McDowell beat the favourite, Ronan Parke, to the £100,000 prize and will now sing at the Royal Variety Performance.
It seems odd that they want to let so many singers through on BGT which seems to be undermining the whole search for ‘talent’.
The show this year had a host of contestants who showed real talent, namely the kid who made Michael McEntire out of toast, yet it seems like they always fall back on singers. Why are they part of this show, and why do they allow so many people who sing to take par in BGT when clearly they should be part of the other show.
It’s clear that things are not going to well for Cowell at the moment with the disaster that he has faced with the American X Factor and the departing of Cole, this has not been good and has thrown into doubt the success the UK version of that show is going to have.
In my opinion what I would like to see is less singers on BGT and more talent, singing and dancing is all very well and good but it’s time we saw some real TALENT on our screens.
Opinion: A few years ago when the UK Government decided they where going to follow their American counterparts into a war without evidence that the UK would feel the heavy hand of Europe. It felt, from the start, that the UK had been shunned much like the Amish shun certain members of the group and the only credible way they could attack the UK for what they done was to ensure that the UK (who on average put in some pretty amazing acts) would pay for their US support.
I know am sounding like a nut-job but you have to think of all the work that the UK team have been putting into their entries yet they either come last or get beat by none other than Jedward, two of the worst singers/performers on the planet.
Am not sure what Blue would be thinking, I mean Lee Ryan can actually sing and is really good at it, but the votes don’t like, Europe is saying they prefer the Irish brothers over some good singing. But then again may be I have it all wrong and may be the UK have been over thinking this. There is no reason why we have to take it too seriously and it does appear that the UK may never host the worlds biggest non-prize winning competition.
Attack The Block is an alien invasion film like no other, least because of it’s location of a South London Tower block. TNC was lucky to be at the premier of the film where a host of the films incredible talent where on hand to tell us a little bit about their film and what UK audiences can expect from the team behind Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, and the smash hit Paul.
This is what makes the UK Film Industry stand out. The cast really brings to life Joe’s work and give the whole project a genuine feel that makes the film work so well. Alex, Leeon Jones (Jerome), Simon Howard (Biggz), and John Boyega (Moses) all worked the press line like seasoned professionals and each of them have a maturity that is a credit to them all, Joe would be mindful to get the guys on another project soon.
This is a BritFilm that is going to be a smash!
Luke Treadaway (Brewis), Alex Esmail (Pest), and the films writer/director Joe Cornish where on hand to answer some of our questions.
Tell us a little bit about your character and your involvement in the film?
Luke Treadaway: Brewis is a sort of middle-class kid who has gone down to the block to pick up some weed that night. He’s just chilling having a bong with Nick’s character “Ron” and the aliens start hitting down in force and he get’s a little bit paranoid to say the least.
What would you think an alien would do if they invaded South London?
Luke: Probably go looking for Ron’s weed room…I don’t know.
This is another good British film, do you think the UK Film industry is still going strong?
Luke: Yeah, keep Brits making films, this is a great industry to be apart of and am very proud to be apart of it.
Your going to hear a lot of this, tell me a little bit about your character?
Alex Esmail: My character the only way I can really explain him is he’s a weed smoking idiot…that’s all he really does smoke weed and talk shit.
How did you get involved with the film?
Alex: I was at collage actually and one of the casting agents came in saying they where casting for a film and I just kept going to the auditions and just got through it really.
Do you believe in aliens?
Alex: There is a lot of controversy on whether they do or not, I don’t know…
Did Joe make you do a lot of research on aliens?
Alex: Erm, not really because you know, am not going to reveal the ending, but we had stuff to work with and we didn’t have to do that much research on aliens themselves it was more about the characters.
Are you a fan of sci-fi movies?
Alex: Yes completely. I love sci-fi films
What are your top three sci-fi films?
Alex: I really liked Aliens. I really liked Star Trek, and I didn’t mind Planet of the Apes.
The originals or the remakes?
Alex: The one that was made in 2004, the first remake.
So what would you like people to take from the film?
Alex: To take from this film, the fact that you know, especially today, you know all the kids that are wearing hoodies and stuff, they’re just kids. They are not some kind of demonic people who are going to kill you.
Tell us a little bit about Attack The Block?
Joe Cornish (Director): Attack the Block is a movie about a gang of teenagers who defend their South London tower block from an alien invasion.
I understand you got the idea from a rather personal experience?
Joe: Yeah, I had a little mugging encounter about 10 years ago but some quite young local kids and it was a pretty tame event, but it also started me thinking about why they had done it and what type pof background they might have come from and what their lives where like. And it made me wonder what that experience might have been like if it had been interrupted by something out of this world.
So I started researching along both paths really; the truth of the lives of the types of kids who did that to me and also a more crazy level what a kid like that might do in an alien invasion situation.
And the language of the film is very specific to that part of London, how did you research that?
Joe: Thank you, I spent a lot of time going round youth groups in South London talking to kids talking them through the story and listening to what they said. We spoke to hundreds of kids and the script is made up of the sort of little bits I got from them and then my own imagination and my own interpretation. But we involved the cast as well to make the language as true as possible, yet the whole thing is also slightly exaggerated, slightly larger than life.
And we simplified it as well a bit, it was important to me that anyone could understand this film whether they where one of those kids or someone like me – as you can see am very much not one of those kids.
How well do you think aliens would do if they invaded a South London tower block?
Joe: I think that if aliens invaded South London pretty much what happens in the film. I think they would hightail it to where they came from. And I hope that the people of South London would unite the way they do in the film and lick some alien arse.
Do you think films like Attack The Block are proof that there is a strong British film industry?
Joe: I think, you know, I wrote my O-level thesis on the crisis in the British Film industry when I was 15. So for my entire life there was supposed to be this crisis in the UK Film industry and I kind of disagree, I think it’s in pretty good health some very brilliant UK filmmakers, brilliant producers, lots of people in lots of great companies working amazingly hard.
