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Posted by Derek Pig (U14833635) on Thursday, 19th May 2011
does anyone have any favourite moments from TV fiction that are in a horticultural setting they would care to share? someone said abnout having a horticulture soap opera- is there really scope?
my favourites include the shoot out in the garden centre in "catterick" with reeves and Mortimer and i suppose there must have been umpteen scens in the garden in albert square- but they dont count.
the first time i remember seeing gardening on tv was when hoologans smashe dup the blue peter garden. there have been a few films about prison gardeners and the quite horrific film "scum" which doesnt bare thinking about.
I also like the bit at the end of the shining where thingy is frozen to death in a maze
what about you lot
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Posted by Pumpkin_Patch_Paul (U14565900) on Friday, 20th May 2011
I like the film "Signs" with Mel Gibson where they running through the fields of corn ,I love the way wheat and corn move and sounds in the wind.
Is it possible for a human being to walk thriough a field of wheat/barley without putting their hand out to brush it as they walk along... I think not.
PPP.
there is the TV show Green Acres from 1960's
There was a so-called detective series on ITV called 'Rosemary and Thyme'. It was dreadful despite having Felicity Kendall as one of its stars.
What abou the Triffids!
There was a really funny scene in Rosemary & Tyne when one of the episodes was filmed at Kew Gardens....one of them was filmed walking into the Palm House and seen exiting from the Temperate House, a truly alwful example of bad TV continuity.
A truly awful programme!
Zam.
i like the triffids- excellent- but what was the tv series about?
just thinking about it, are there many gardener sin fiction who could be dramatised? there is lady chatterleys lover but thats been done to death- gardening just isnt that ... dynamic?
talking of kew Zambooza- and i've been a few times, really love it- but that a year at kew tv programme was interesting but hardly exciting- a day in a casualty department or out with the rozzers is always going to make a better tale than a year in a garden
it would i guess be dificult to alocate interesting characters to gardeners- 'Dirty' harry callaghan is great as a deranged san francisco cop but if that was a gardener, it would just be a school caretaker character you wouldnt want to shake hands with.
i will be impressed if you lot can think of much more...
Got a great one for you Joey....
Little Shop of Horrors
yep, id completely forgotten about that- but like triffids, is the onlty way to make horticulture in fiction interesting to make it bizare, extra terrestrial or full of you know what like lady chatterley? kids tv is full of vegetables that talk. but i am not owning up to watching them or looking forward to Munch Bunch-the movie.
and i was just thinking something else as well- in real life, aren't you all quite releaved that unlike truck drivers and builders, gardeners are rarely linked with horrific crimes? maybe its sometimes better to be a bit boring
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Posted by Pumpkin_Patch_Paul (U14565900) on Friday, 20th May 2011
The Attack Of The Killer Tomatoes.
Invasion Of The Body Snatchers.(They grew in a pod like a giant broad bean plant)....
Lord of The Rings (Walking talking trees)
Poltagiest and Evil Dead (Killer trees)
Halloween...Beacuse I like pumpkins.
PPP.
Wow.....your on fire their pumpkin man!!
what about one of the batman movies when the caped crusader gets attacked by the weird carnivorus plant created buy poison ivy.
the thing is, there is no real hortticulture in fiction because it is boring... and i say that as someone who has worked all his life as a gardener and who loves plants. buit its not dynamic or amazing or tactile or "umbifalent" (an adjective i just invented for the show garden season).
we are about to be greeted with a whole load of tripe from Chelsea flower show and we wil be told that the plants on display that have been bred to show particular charictaristics that people might like are "umslumpogus", "argle bargle narfing" and "uber brillo-narcic" (see above).
they aren't, its just plants, its smashing and we all like them but the new rock and roll? a reason to get het-up on a message board? a reason to have a go at a bloke who is a great presenter and a compassionate soul only doing his job... nah, me thinks yous is all taking yaselves too seriously.
anyone ever heard 'Petunia' by Motorhead?
Trouble is Joey everyone loves the Chelsea over the top coverage, garden designers pretending they know how to garden, joe and rachel trying to schmooze up to everyone, joe public lapping it up for the annual love in.
I think we should all stick 2 fingers up at the Beeb Chelsea coverage and switch channels and watch old reruns of Minder on Dave TV.
i wiould agree with you that everyone loves it if we accept- as i do- that the bbc demographic is correct and gardening on tv should be aimed towards middle class people who don't really know what hard work is but just swooooooon at the roses. if this is true, and i think it is, then the bbc is RIGHT to show it all- its a public service pbroadcast provider and it can't show minority programmes like Minder all day.
i don't have a problem with this as its just how the world works, i just don't get why everyone seems so angry about everything on a gardening message board
How about Hollyoaks and Roots?
I was going to suggest Little Shop - it's a cautionary tale about letting plants draw you in....
And it's worth it just for the shoes on the greek chorus ladies, and Audrey2's voice
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Posted by Pumpkin_Patch_Paul (U14565900) on Sunday, 22nd May 2011
I know that Paul Mc Cartney is a huge gardening fan this was shown when he wrote the lyrics to.'...."Lettuce Bee".
Sorry...
I have a strange feeling you are not really sorry - and now I shall always hear it as that!
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Posted by Pumpkin_Patch_Paul (U14565900) on Sunday, 22nd May 2011
Well here s a few of my favourite garden films to take your mind of it...
"Children Of The Corn"
"Grapes Of Wrath"
"The Day The Earth Stood Tilled"
"From Hedge To Eternity"
"The Long Distance Runner Bean"
"Cold Frame In Alex"
"True Grit"
I was Monty's Double"
And from 007 "Moon Raker" and "Dr Hoe"
I think your taking the 'michael' now pumpkin man, can we please keep on topic.
It's not funny or clever!
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