The Comic Strip Presents (TV Series)
The Strike (1988)
Robbie Coltrane: Goldie, Dutch, Celebrity
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Quotes
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[first lines]
Verity : We're all very excited about your script, aren't we David?
Film Executive : Oh, we all love the script. All of us.
Verity : It's so wonderful. It's... It's quite fabulous.
Film Executive : Absolutely
Verity : It's brilliant, quite brilliant.
Bernard : Yes, well what initially attracted me to the idea is...
Verity : [to waiter] Bucks Fizz, please.
Bernard : ...is there's this unashamedly powerful, socialist epic. And as a director, the way Paul's captured the sheer size of the struggle...
Film Executive : [to waiter] Anything but a Coca Cola, thank you.
Bernard : ...millions of people unemployed. Families ripped apart, whole communities on tranquilisers.
[to waiter]
Bernard : Thank you. It's... It's... It's magnificent.
Verity : No, It's smashing stuff. I mean when I got to the end I felt as if I had been through the miners' strike myself.
Film Executive : Oh absolutely! I mean if we're going to revitalize the British film industry from an American perspective then 'Miners Strike' is undoubtedly the sort of film we should be doing this year.
Verity : Oh, I agree. It has terrific potential.
Film Executive : [pause] What about Al Pacino as Arthur Scargill?
Goldie : Can Pacino box?