TST Film Review Thread

[GooseOnTheLoose]

Out of interest, what do you mean by this?

Granted, I wasn’t really looking for this sort of thing, and Ibrahim was also the only actor I wasn’t previously familiar with out of the main four (I knew Helen Mirren and Pierce Brosnan, and while I didn’t immediately know the actress who played Joyce, I definitely recognised her face, even if I couldn’t think for the life of me where I knew her from), but I didn’t think the film emphasised or mentioned any kind of “ethnic” aspect to that character at all, if that’s what you’re referring to. It just seemed to treat him as another member of the gang!

In the book, Ibrahim (played by Ben Kingsley) is from Egypt and looks the part. Ben Kingsley is from Yorkshire and white.

Ben Kingsley won an Oscar for playing Mahatma Gandhi, in the film Gandhi. Ben Kingsley is from Yorkshire and is white, and famously browned up for the role.

 

[Bert2theSpark]

He also played a faux-Asian character in Iron Man 3, a Jewish person in Schindler's List and even more shockingly a French person in Hugo, he really is the man of all ethnicities…

 

[John_P]

Call me Sir Ben Kingsley was born Krishna Pandit Bhanji and his father was Indian.

He also played a faux-Asian character in Iron Man 3

He was a Scouser in that. I was actually at the match that he's watching in IM3.

 

[John_P]

Anyhow, Thursday Murder Club was alright but some amazingly skewed morality come the end.

Spoiler: Spoiler

Helen Mirren lets an actual gangster go free. Whilst helping have an immigrant who was forced to work under duress by a gang master arrested for murder. And forces a husband into a murder/suicide with his ill wife.