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The Ploughman's Lunch. BAFTA FILM AWARD® nominee. James Penfield has made a career out of journalism. Now bankrupt, he finds himself with a group of other writers in ...
Partly financed by the newly created Channel 4 and coming at the end of the Falkland’s War, this film captured the zeitgeist of Thatcherite Britain. Ian McEwan’s script paints a bleak picture of perpetual one-upmanship in a media world where the historical truth is amended to suit the times. A ...
There’s always room at the top… 1950s Suez-era collapse in British national identity updated to the Falklands War/Greenham Common 1980s. Which means a sticking plaster over another 30-years of fecklessness and muddling-through as witnessed by a journalist's (Jonathan Pryce) attempts to shimmy-up the greasy social and sexual poles, just as Joe Lampton tried three-decades earlier.
This article examines Ian McEwan's script for director Richard Eyre's film, The Ploughman's Lunch (1983), the title of which alludes to a deceptive, post-World War II advertising campaign that promulgated a false narrative about British tradition. McEwan's script, and Eyre's film adaptation of it, offer a prescient exposé of Britain's culture of mendacity in the 1980s in ways that draw on ...
The Ploughman's Lunch: Directed by Richard Eyre. With Jonathan Pryce, William Maxwell, Paul Jesson, Andy Rashleigh. James Penfield (Jonathan Pryce) has made a career out of journalism.
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The film The Ploughman's Lunch (1983), from a screenplay by Ian McEwan, has a subtext that is "the way countries and people re-write their own history to suit the needs of the present". [20] The title alludes to the debatable claim that the supposedly "traditional" meal was the result of a marketing campaign of the 1960s devised to encourage people to eat meals in pubs.
