British film cliches

I read that the other day.

K

Well, neither of the screenplays I've subbed to the UK Film Council falls into any of those categories.

Which is why the bastards turned me down.

seun said:

Was Hugh Grant in your screenplay?

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Burly young country farmer? Rugger-bugger fund manager aged thirty? He wishes! Sulky/cool fifteen-year-old boybandalike? Not even when he was fifteen.

So...er...no.

In the late sixties and seventies, my friends and I coined OBPS, the Obligatory British Party Scene. Every British movie back then, esp B movies, had a party scene with "hippies" dancing to incredibly bland rock. It didn't matter what the rest of the movie was about; they all had the OBPS.