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drakula63 wrote:I've just watched a few minutes of the Olivia Newton-John biopic which has just started on Channel 5. I really don't think they could have found actors who looked any less like the people they were playing. Hank Marvin, Bruce Welch, Brian Bennett, John Rostill and John Farrar have to be seen to be believed. John Rostill, here, looks more like John-Paul Jones. And John Farrar didn't have a beard in 1970. Simple things to check up on. I'm recording it and will watch it all later. Delta Goodrem, although undeniably attractive and a good singer, is no match - in the beauty or voice stakes - for Olivia. This looks like it's going to be filled with inaccuracies... which most people won't notice!
JimN wrote:drakula63 wrote:I've just watched a few minutes of the Olivia Newton-John biopic which has just started on Channel 5. I really don't think they could have found actors who looked any less like the people they were playing. Hank Marvin, Bruce Welch, Brian Bennett, John Rostill and John Farrar have to be seen to be believed. John Rostill, here, looks more like John-Paul Jones. And John Farrar didn't have a beard in 1970. Simple things to check up on. I'm recording it and will watch it all later. Delta Goodrem, although undeniably attractive and a good singer, is no match - in the beauty or voice stakes - for Olivia. This looks like it's going to be filled with inaccuracies... which most people won't notice!
Olivia actually met The Shadows in 1966 in London, not 1970. Had it been 1970, she wouldn't have caught Bruce with The Shadows.
But... thanks for the alert, Chris. I set my recorder to catch it on 5+1 and then found that it was already available as a download on the My5 catch-up service.
Irrespective of the likenesses of the actors to the people portrayed, at least this Australian production is trying to tell the story with a little bit of accuracy. I loved the Mosrite guitar and bass on the recreation of the Oz TV music programme - but a Mosrite - even a Celebrity semi-acoustic model - with a Bigsby? Loses the whole point of the Mosrite and the Vibramute tailpiece, sort of... Still. At least the guitar (and the Bigsby) were available.
I'll watch the bulk of the film later, but based on what I've seen, I doubt that Bruce will like being depicted with a generic northern accent, sounding very Liverpudlian!
Uncle Fiesta wrote:I thought it really dragged in places. I'd been watching it for about 3 hours when I realised it was only halfway through.
With regard to the 'non-lookalikes', it's difficult enough finding people of about the right age, who can act, and pretend to sing or play an instrument convincingly, without visually being a carbon copy as well!
Although admittedly I was having difficulty at times, trying to work out who was supposed to be who.
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