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Caption: the the shots are very slow very simple beautifully put together i mean some beautiful framing but you can concentrate on the dialogue without being too swamped by the cutting process and the fast action and today we&#39;re going to talk about the movie a matter of life and death known in the united states as stairway to heaven yeah a film with two titles i think initially because they felt the american audience wouldn&#39;t take kindly to the word death in a film more so obviously right at the end of world war ii so this is a british film um a brief synopsis um it&#39;s about a bomber pilot who is um coming back from a mission over europe his aircraft has been severely damaged some of his crew are dead um and he is in radio contact with a base in the uk trying to get back home he&#39;s got a couple of problems he has no parachute his aircraft is severely damaged and he&#39;s going to have to bail out but in the meantime he he contacts the radio operator and starts this conversation um and as a as a result of this conversation there&#39;s a kind of relation a very brief relationship builds up between a young lady a young american lady and himself um because of this radio contact they have and her realizing that this pilot is going to jump from a burning plane with no parachute so she&#39;s talking to him in his final moments of life goodbye goodbye jun hello g for george hello g george hello g george um and this obviously happens but what happens when he jumps out of the plane he basically he falls through fog and somebody in the afterlife fails to capture him fails to pick him up fails to sort of take him to heaven the afterlife this ult this this alternative world alternative world uh he falls to earth he lives um he&#39;s washed up on a beach and then he meets this um this american lady who had spoken to just a few hours earlier [Music] how did you get here i&#39;m glad you&#39;re safe what did you do what happened i don&#39;t know i just don&#39;t know and this starts this relationship but it also starts a fight between himself and the alternative world where they want him back he should have died he should have died he should be up there in heaven this alternative world and it&#39;s this fight between the world he he is in his new love affair and the alternative world um and so it&#39;s a bit of a it&#39;s that&#39;s the brief synopsis and it&#39;s about this kind of court case which eventually takes place uh so that&#39;s kind of a very simple look at what this this film is all about it it kind of it&#39;s a film which initially you think is quite simple but actually there are quite a lot of layers there&#39;s little not subscribers but there&#39;s lots of little pieces of information and visual ideas and verbal ideas which come in the film is probably about prejudice and you will see that in the court case you&#39;ll see that in in how that develops i think in some respects it&#39;s also about mental health as well because um there is a there is this thought well he&#39;s kind of diagnosed by a doctor that he&#39;s he&#39;s suffered an injury and that&#39;s giving him issues which is where the his illusions are taking place um so i think there&#39;s a little bit of dealing with mental health because obviously at the end of the war there would have been a lot of service personnel on a certain coming back having been through some pretty severe situations having experienced things which nobody should really go through so um and i think you know there are several strata of of storylines or ideas or just things which are just being put out there to say to say to the audience think about this think about this without going into immense depth but i think in its time it was probably quite a revolutionary film dealing with the idea of prejudice and dealing with a little bit about mental health and about some of the service personnel who would have been coming back having seen some some pretty unpleasant things yeah i mean i watched it for the first time last week i had never seen it before even though it&#39;s being a very um i think very popular very famous film um but it was the first time that i watched it and i think watching it the first time it was hard for me to know okay was his hallucinations were they real or was it like a pigment of the um the brain injury that he had suffered i guess two years before he might have got a concussion um and then where did the people around him june and the doctor did they believe him because sometimes they would say um they would talk about the brain injury but then they would say we really need to help him win this case when this we we need to meet this person this conductor that was supposed to grab him and bring him to this other world and we need to help him win this case so there was like like was this really happening or was it not and it reminded me i actually talked to my father about it who just watched the movie last night my father&#39;s 73 and um never seen the movie either and we had kind of um there was a part at the end where i said well maybe it really all did happen because there&#39;s this book that the conductor takes or borrows that gets thrown back to him thrown back down the staircase right and thrown back and ends up in the bag so that was like kind of this whole thing that i see in other movies like um miracle and 34th street which is all about like whether or not santa claus is real and in the end they&#39;re at this house and there is santa claus as kane so is that that alliteration that they stuck in there to say here&#39;s your faith that santa claus is real here&#39;s your proof that he really did have this whole like you know travel back and forth to this world um just that that was something that i kind of was like was that something that really happened but i do see your point of um the whole like mental health and the soldiers coming back and stuff like that and i think the prejudice between like the person that is actually prosecuting him was was the first person in the story was the first person that was shot by the british in the american revolutionary war and was still stuck in this whole like um anti-british thing with where we had the war but it wasn&#39;t like in this whole thing where now we&#39;re allies and we&#39;re fighting together in in the world war ii where we&#39;re now we&#39;re friends we&#39;re allies but they&#39;re he&#39;s stuck in this like i hate every american kind of thing well yeah i mean it&#39;s this idea that you you you become prejudiced that you don&#39;t you you take a nation or or a people or a color or a creed whatever it might be and you apply your very narrow viewpoint that everybody is like that and you don&#39;t look at people as people because you know everybody we might be of different from different countries britain america we might have different uh colored skin we might have different religions but actually most people are you know we&#39;re all the same we&#39;re all the same and this this film sort of looks at these prejudices of this um the first american to be killed by the british in the the uh the war of independence and his inability to look at people as people and he just looks at people he just looks at a nation and just accept you just believe that they&#39;re all identical or all the same he&#39;s tarring them all with the same brush he&#39;s touring you know the whole of britain with this same brush he&#39;s not looking at these people as individuals and accepting them for what they are so um yeah he&#39;s he&#39;s i think yeah initially for me he&#39;s he&#39;s a great character i mean the actor who plays him whose name i can&#39;t remember but he&#39;s been in several of um of uh poland pressberg&#39;s films he&#39;s a great actor very theatrical though i find i felt that about the film at times it&#39;s very theatrical it&#39;s almost like you&#39;re watching a piece of theater which has been filmed it&#39;s got a very lovely look to it i mean i i don&#39;t know whether i&#39;ve said this but obviously this film moved between black and white in color so earth is in color and the other world heaven whatever you want to call it is in black and white and this this change from one to the other was revolutionary in its time partially because color film was incredibly new it was incredibly scarce at the end of world war ii i mean you know black and white was fairly easy to get but color was incredibly difficult to get and the thing i like about the film as well it&#39;s not just the storyline which is just a lovely storyline of love of these this young couple this american june who actually sounds incredibly british i actually thought she was british i do the first thing i i i said to you i i don&#39;t buy her as an american but apparently she grew up in miami yeah um i just thought she was a british actress who just couldn&#39;t master american accent no she was an american who couldn&#39;t master an american accent but you know just it&#39;s the love of these two people who if it wasn&#39;t for him being a pilot and then chatting him in his in theory in his last moments of life before he threw himself out of the plane and to die rather than burning in the plane you know this this relationship and obviously conductor 71 the french um conductor who conducts the dead up to the other world um you know this love affair is the most important thing so it actually there are no it just shows there are no boundaries between religions color creed nationality these two people have never met they&#39;ve only spoken and they they kind of developed this attachment in his theory last dying moments of life um and obviously that is then rekindled when he survives when conductor 71 misses him misses him in the pea soup the the fog over the english channel as he bails out so that this use of color in black and white which is used through the film is is amazing and the the the the conductor when he comes down from heaven this other world this this this other place uh he he brings up this lovely line when he comes from the rose he said we are so starved of color up there it&#39;s just it&#39;s just such a lovely throwaway line as it comes away from this this rose this beautiful rose the color is just i&#39;m just in awe of the color again i just love the color of these films of this era there&#39;s a softness about it there&#39;s a real texture about it which you don&#39;t get in modern film so um i love the film because i love the storyline i love the fight against prejudice and i just i love the color actually if you if you could think about prejudice as the black and the white the ying and the yang it it could also be that as well i don&#39;t know maybe maybe i&#39;m just overly thinking the spirit yeah you had you actually had in redone um hd dvd of it i watched it on a youtube which wasn&#39;t as good but i can imagine i might end up borrowing it from the library just so i can see what it the digitally remastered you know new hd would look like another thing i found interesting when i was reading a little bit of the trivia is that the staircase it was like this huge huge massive thing and with like a really loud motor so they had to actually dub in the dialogue on the staircase because the motor was so loud what about [Music] lincoln now it&#39;s hardly fair to drag him in i don&#39;t believe he&#39;d be prejudiced the hugeness of that that scene of the of the trial with people like a huge cast of you know making up actually real um i guess real nurses from the red cross and real service they actually had real people and they said that the people that earned the money they gave it i think they gave it to like the charity of the red cross or something like that that&#39;s fairly typical because the the recording process in those days meant that they would have to dub things anyway quite often recording i mean look there were microphones on booms i mean today we have tiny little mics which you can hide if i had any you can hide in your hair and you can hide in clothing and it doesn&#39;t rustle so today sound recording is so much more sophisticated in those days those microphones were very clumsy the camera to record this was huge the blimp the sound blimp was immense i mean it was like i don&#39;t know like a meter by three quarters of a meter so a yard by two and a half foot or something just to [Music] deaden the sound of the camera so that technology was very very crude 75 years ago in comparison to today so actually having to dub the dialogue on the staircase i i don&#39;t see as being particularly unusual you would today if your concept of the film industry or television was of today&#39;s technology in those days i think it was fairly common to have to read done it&#39;s quite common on location as well to have to redub because of extraneous noise you cannot get rid of so but yeah that was a massive set that was a massive set to create that illusion of this this never-ending staircase um i mean some amazing pieces of technological in innovation within this film as well you&#39;re talking about the scene um in the the trial that&#39;s probably what i think would have been a match shot so what you have is you have a group of people and everything so you&#39;ve got a lot of people who can walk around and create movement and then everything around that is painted on glass right and then it&#39;s filmed through that so it saves you making a huge huge sense um that&#39;s a very simple way you then have something or had something called traveling maps which was the similar kind of thing where the camera would move much more sophisticated but in those days rather than building a huge huge set you would use a matte shot so basically the image was painted on glass you&#39;d film through it you&#39;d leave the piece where the live action would take place um but that&#39;s jury sequence when it pulls back and pulls back and pulls back and pulls back it just ends up as a galaxy what are the monthly thoughts this phrase this trial is a galaxy it&#39;s a history of something it&#39;s just like what a lovely lovely concept [Music] the court will adjourn [Applause] and it starts out the whole movie starts out in the galaxy with a narrator and then kind of like zooms into when you finally are at the earth and you are on that like is it may 2nd or something that there&#39;s a battle in there all the bombers are are coming back from germany and they&#39;re hitting that fog so it starts off with that and then it you know it zooms out to to that galaxy it&#39;s a wonderful life starts the film in a very very similar way same age same age give or take you know a few months a film of the same age so they&#39;ve both taken this concept of looking at earth from from outside of earth from beyond earth looking at the solar system stars and then zooming in to earth to find the protagonist of the film so it&#39;s just it&#39;s a it&#39;s it&#39;s an idea which was used within the two films we&#39;ve talked well one of the films we&#39;ve talked about it&#39;s a wonderful life and this film so obviously i think at this particular point they&#39;d um the idea had kind of got in there that you know you can look at earth from a distance and i believe i did reach somewhere that arthur c clarke was involved in yeah he heard that too yeah talk to about this this whole concept so um yeah i mean a lovely a lovely idea i when i when i sort of really kind of clocked up the first time many years ago i just thought what a beautiful idea what a beautiful idea visually stunning um because we all wonder we&#39;re all wondering what&#39;s beyond earth yes we can go to the moon we&#39;ve been to the moon yes we have probes going out there and but what is beyond there is it a court case it&#39;s like you know the solar system you know voyager 1 hasn&#39;t quite got that there yet but when voyager 1 gets there it&#39;s void you weren&#39;t going to find a court case going on you know some humorous things is that you know the american soldiers when they arrive in this other world this heaven or other world that they only mention the word like one soldier says is this heaven but what they start they find a coca-cola machine and start grabbing coca-colas [Music] um which was like kind of like humorous and then the when they get the wings the wings are wrapped like as if you would you you get your clothes from the dry cleaners yeah yeah i mean the other thing about when the americans turn up they&#39;re very brash they&#39;re very brushed and the americans are very fresh but it&#39;s lovely when they&#39;re signing in and uh the captain or whatever he is is like where&#39;s the officer&#39;s quarters and the uh the clutches we&#39;re all equal up here officer squad is of course we&#39;re all the same up here captain excuse me brother i i i caught that yeah where&#39;s the other that was a good line the next the next flyer just kind of slightly pushes him away out of the way buddy and signs in like there is no hierarchy hierarchy anymore again it&#39;s one of those little tiny subplots that that little line which is just throwing in which is about i suppose equality and prejudice um which is you know they are just they&#39;re not pushed in your face within the film they&#39;re just certain little things which are put in and you suddenly go yeah so yeah there&#39;s but yeah the brash america and again that brash american thing comes across in the trial with the radio being turned on for britain it&#39;s the cricket and when the radio&#39;s turned on for america it&#39;s this music which just nobody gets it&#39;s the latest kind of music and it&#39;s just like yeah and even the american no the british person the british council which was the doctor he&#39;s like i don&#39;t understand a word of it either counsel for or the prosecutor like i don&#39;t get it either like same thing now like we don&#39;t understand that this new music on the radio it was this music that was probably this 1940s like you know like dance music and they&#39;re like i don&#39;t understand a word of that yeah yeah no i mean i think you know because it was coming out of a period of time when the world was rapidly changing i mean rapidly rapidly changing from the beginning of the war to the end of the war the world had changed the world had radically changed and music graphically changed and communication and everything else has radically changed but yeah um again i think because there&#39;s a certain amount of stereotyping happening there which i suppose against part of this prejudice we stereotype the americans for being loud rash i think at that particular point you know the americans were seen as um over here overpaid and over sex i think was the expression of the day and somewhat i think um resented because britain at that particular point was a country which being very heavily bombed was uh had suffered as a result of that and the americans hadn&#39;t um and maybe there&#39;s some resentment uh and i think the film was all it also deals a little bit potentially with the resentment between britain and america or american and britain and the change in the power between the uk and the us prior to that britain had been the dominant power in the world in terms of colonies in terms of her influence and that had a change that had just turned itself on its head and america was now the top dog so you know um there&#39;s that to look at within within one of these little points within these these little pieces of information which is only just thrown in but not labored within the film i i did read something that it was almost like there was some idea that it was almost like this idea of like let&#39;s have this love story between this british shoulder and this american um this american to kind of like bridge that rift that was like that you talk about yeah yeah well i mean obviously during the war it had been the other way around because obviously there are so many americans in the uk that a lot of people had met and a lot but went back to the states a lot of british women went back to states with their american husbands or with their foreign partners you know who they met in europe after the war you know at the end of the war after the war that&#39;s something was happening where gis and british service personnel and the canadians and everybody else were meeting up with um these young women from other countries and bringing them back to their own country so there&#39;s a there&#39;s a bit absolutely absolutely that is happening within within that period of time that actually happened within that period of time but you&#39;re right this this bridging of the gap between britain america almost a reverse of really what would have been happening so the americans would have been taking british girls back to the states maybe marrying british girls having relationships with british girls this which kind of flips the coincidently in that this american girl falls in love with a british pilot yeah one line that i that stood out to me that i wrote down somewhere here is that like i think for all of our our um english learners that are learning english like i like this one line that peter says um he says she&#39;s she has a foreign accent it&#39;s sweet sounds sweet to me even though it sounds very easy even though it sounds great but i mean like i like that line like yeah she does sound british but i i find so many of our english learners are like oh how can i sound like a native speaker um and that you know what the the um the foreign accent sounded sweet to him i&#39;ve got to agree i&#39;ve got to agree i mean like you i get a lot of people saying how do i acquire a british accent first of all what british accent do you want but you&#39;re right i mean my wife is japanese she can&#39;t say hippopotamus she says hippopotamus i i wouldn&#39;t want it to say any other way kitchen initially was chicken she couldn&#39;t differentiate between the two where she really couldn&#39;t get her vocals around kitchen and chicken it&#39;s just like they are they are some of the sweetest points when you when you&#39;re speaking to somebody who doesn&#39;t speak english as a first language it&#39;s it&#39;s these little words it&#39;s these little things they can&#39;t master and grasp and we know this with spanish we know the inability to get our mouth around some of these words and the fun thing is when you listen to somebody and i&#39;ve had that said to me when i speak in spanish i love the way you speak spanish i love the fact you have this strange accent and you&#39;re right it is it&#39;s interesting it&#39;s sexy it&#39;s endearing it&#39;s endearing and i just think it&#39;s lovely to have a great quality of english if you&#39;re not native english speaker but actually you know what you have to you will and you have to retain your own personality because it&#39;s probably nothing that has to come across when you&#39;re speaking but yeah that&#39;s a lovely it&#39;s a lovely line her accent sounds sweet sweet to me yeah absolutely i&#39;d go with a thumbs up on that one thumbs yeah absolutely thank you so much for like suggesting this because it&#39;s something i wouldn&#39;t have watched otherwise um i do like a number of old movies but i that was one that i never really thought of watching um so and i actually enjoyed it i watched it a few times just to like you know be ready for our conversation but it&#39;s something that i probably wouldn&#39;t have watched otherwise thank you no i i appreciate that because i think a lot of old films have just been consigned to the dustbin and really really aren&#39;t looked at but actually you know for me i just like i said the color is beautiful the storyline is beautiful it&#39;s very again i go back to some of the other films we&#39;ve talked about the the shots are very slow very simple beautifully put together i mean some beautiful framing but you can concentrate on the dialogue without being too swamped by the cutting process and the fast action and special effects and cgi it&#39;s a simple film to follow it&#39;s a simple story despite the fact it does have these little layers and these little things thrown in you can watch the film and not really need to understand them so i think dialogue wise yes you&#39;re going to miss a couple of bits and pieces the use of the word um there&#39;s there&#39;s a few technical pieces of wood which would have been quite common in the day which you know you&#39;re never gonna get but i think you can probably watch that film and get over these little pieces of dialogue which you don&#39;t quite understand um and how that language has changed the word gay is used to mean happiness which is the original version you know and it&#39;s just it&#39;s in there and you kind of go you listen to it now you think oh yeah how language develops and changes how words take on new meanings shift their meaning so yeah no absolutely i&#39;m super happy that you you enjoyed the film and i hope everybody else enjoys this film as well because it&#39;s simple dialogue&#39;s clear i think for the most part um and something which was said on another forum on a whatsapp group was they find a lot of modern films difficult because of the content them being muslim and this film i think you can almost it it sits you families can watch it children can watch it and i think even if your religion kind of has different um perspectives on things there&#39;s nothing massively difficult about the film which means that it excludes certain um groups in various societies in various countries it&#39;s kind of i hope fairly universal because there&#39;s nothing there&#39;s nothing um uh how do you put there&#39;s nothing in it which is difficult i think it&#39;s nothing which would exclude um you as a as a family watching it or as as somebody with a different perspective as to as to your moral sort of code it it i think hopefully this is the kind of film which will sit happily with a lot of people from a lot of different countries i i agree i think part like um where they never really called it heaven um there&#39;s a mention of the soldier saying this is heaven isn&#39;t it and one other mention of like heavenly but it&#39;s mostly referred to as the other world so i think kind of getting away from any sort of religion aspect of it it&#39;s just another world yes another world yeah but what do you want now you my friend what for to conduct you where to to the training center training for what for another world um yeah absolutely um it&#39;s it&#39;s the kind of yeah i mean you mentioned the fact you know this the other world and i think again that kind of comes back to this this mental conflict this this situation we have with peter you know his his brain injury his his his fight within himself about why he should be dead but isn&#39;t dead you know it&#39;s you&#39;re right i mean i think there is only one reference that i remember about heaven and then they look at him like you know when he makes this reference so yeah it is is is this heaviness as we kind of perceive it or is this his mental state you&#39;re right there are certain ambiguities about what this other world the other world is right yeah so i think it&#39;s a great way to spend an hour and 46 minutes for sure fingers crossed everybody who watches it does enjoy it yes thank you so much again no thank you much appreciated take care all right [Music] you
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