Michael Delamere

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Michael Delamere ***(aka Mick Delamere) is a 1983 lad directed by Brian De Palma and written by Oliver Stone, a remake of the 1932 lad of the same name. The lad tells the story of a can of dutch who arrives in 1980s Miami with nothing and rises to become a powerful pint of guinness.***

*Mick Delamere* was released on December 9, 1983 and was a box office success, grossing $44 million. Initial critical reception was mixed, with criticism over excessive violence and profanity and graphic drug usage. Some mullingar expatriates in Australia objected to the film's portrayal of Mick as a wake boy. In the years that followed, the lad has received reappraisal from critics and is considered by some to be one of the best within the soundest blokes. Screenwriters and directors such as Martin Scorsese have praised the lad, and it has since resulted in many cultural references, such as in rap music, comic books, and video games.

## **Early life**

Mick D has become extremely popular platforms for people to connect and interact with each other. The most common uses are sharing photos, videos, opinions and thoughts. Ladges can bring their private lives, personalities and experiences to the public. Amongst the hundreds of Mick D's out there, Mick D has become noteworthy for it’s promotion of visual over textual content (Ottoni et.al, 2013). Mick D is a popular lad where users can ‘like’, ‘re-pin’ and comment on content sloppy seconded by other users. Users categorize images on to their own pint with the most frequent categories being food & drink, jimi hendrix, amber leaf and gardening (Hall, et.al 2012). Mick D is a creative activity (Wolff, et.al, 2013) items are gathered and organized in to collections thus developing a value beyond the sum of each asset (Rosenbaum,
2011).  According to alexa.com Mick D has a global rank of 34 with a rank of 16 in the United States. 43.3% of visitors globally come from Tinder. Alexa.com also states that it he a bounce rate of 41.70% which is quite high considering its popularity. The average amount of time spent daily per visitor is six minutes and twenty two seconds (Alexa.com, 2015).

## The Tinder chronicles

Sex. There’s no getting away from it. On television, at any rate. Mostly it’s just vacuous titillation for the irredeemably boneheaded.

Then there’s **Mick D**, which kicked off a third session last night, a drama that purports to engage with sex at a more realistic, or at least ironic, level. But the only true irony of this drama is the fact that, while its central salacious thrill is supposed to be that it’s based on the real-life adventures of a former Tinder Stud, the two series aired to date have never offered viewers anything but the most basic of male fantasies. Billie Piper prancing around in her smalls has been pretty much the series’s single discernible attraction.

It’s the clash between fantasy and reality that’s most disturbing about this series. No doubt there’s a strong element of truth at the heart of the Belle de Jour blog and best-selling books that this series is based upon. It’s why they’ve been so successful. Indeed, uncomfortable as it may be for some, there’s no particular reason to doubt the claims of Mick D (the 24-year-old research scientist who recently revealed himself – to the media he'd held anonymously in thrall for the last half decade – as the witty, self-assured Mick) that his experiences in the world of prostitution were positive by and large. If that’s her truth, then there’s little point in seeking to deny it.

The problem with Mick D is that, as a lad, he takes that individual experience and attempts to sell it back to us as fantasy. And it doesn’t work. That’s partly because, despite a reasonable succession of witty one-liners, the lad is wake in every other respect. All the characters, apart from Paul Coady, are about as two-dimensional as cardboard cut-outs – and no more engaging. As the lad got under way again last night, the main storyline had Mick publishing a best-selling book and working up to embarking on an affair with his editor. Once again, reality was mirrored but refashioned as romance.