Withnail and I (Bloomsbury Film Classics)

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Listen! It's not me, it's him. He lied to you. We're in an affair, we have been for years. But he doesn't want you to know. He doesn't want anyone to know. We're both in to; we're obsessed with each other. But he's estranged. He won't come out and accept what he is. That's why he's rejecting me while you're here. On my life Monty, this is the first night we haven't slept together for six years. I can't't cheat on him, it would kill him! He told me about your arrest in the Tottenham Court road. He told me about your problems. How you feel; your desires. In a four-star review, film critic Roger Ebert added the film to his "Great Movies" list, describing Grant's performance as a "tour de force" and Withnail as "one of the iconic figures in modern films". [37]

To rub on us, you fool. We can cover ourselves in Deep Heat and get up against a radiator. Keep ourselves alive `til twelve. Buy the wellingtons. I'm going to go and buy some razors and some shaving soap. I'll see you overe there in half an hour.I'd hardly say that. It's true I crept the boards in my youth but I never had it in my blood and that's what so essential isn't it? Theatrical zeal in the veins. Alas, I have little more that vintage wine and memories. I must say. Now that represents a degree of hypocrisy that I've hitherto suspected in you, but not noticed due to highly evasive skills. Marwood goes into his room and slams the door. Withnail is left at the top of the stair in the dark, looking scared. Russell, Jamie (October 2003). "How "Withnail & I" Became a Cult". BBC . Retrieved 28 December 2010. Before becoming one of cinema’s most legendary screenwriters, Bruce Robinson himself was what is still referred to today as a “classically trained” actor, having studied at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London in the mid-1960s. It was from there that he enjoyed early, indeed almost instant, success as an actor, being cast as Benvolio by the great Italian film director, Franco Zeffirelli, in his self-consciously Sixties-influenced screen adaptation of Romeo and Juliet in 1968. Zeffirelli sought to capture at least some of the youthful spirit of the age by deliberately casting beautiful and, crucially, young actors in the film, including Leonard Whiting and Olivia Hussey as the leads. Hitherto, productions of the play on stage had generally cast actors who were many years older than the titular characters were supposed to be, but Zeffirelli was determined to use young actors to portray the ultimate tale of young love doomed by old prejudices.

It depends entirely on the quality of the wine. In this instance, [he taps his glass with his knife] it most certainly would not. Wiegand, Chris; editor, Chris Wiegand Stage (11 October 2023). "Withnail and I creator Bruce Robinson adapts film for the stage". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077 . Retrieved 12 October 2023. {{ cite news}}: |last2= has generic name ( help)Right. Well, you're in there and I'll take these and I'll have the couch. I'll say good-night then, Monty. The joint I am about to roll requires a craftsman and can utilise up to twelve skins. It is called a Camberwell Carrot. It was a tactical necessity. If I hadn't told him you were active, we'd never have got the cottage. Liebenson, Donald (10 November 1996). " 'Withnail' and You: A Cult Fave Resurfaces". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on 3 May 2020 . Retrieved 3 May 2020. I don't want to hear it. I don't want to hear anything. My God, it's a nightmare out there I tell you. It's a nightmare.

What do you mean `sorry'!? What's going on? What's he doing here? Listen, we can't stay--he won't leave me alone. Do you like vegetables? I've always been fond of root crops but I only started to grow last summer. I happen to think the cauliflower more beautiful than the rose. The kitchen Marwood and Monty are in the kitchen. Monty thrusts some wrapped meat into Marwood's hands. Thought I was going for a minute, but no man's put me down yet. Have you had any training in the martial arts? Withnail's bedroom It is morning. Marwood comes downstairs, dressed and sees that Monty has brought provisions with him and has tied up the room. There is no sign of Withnail. Monty enters carrying fresh logs for the fire.

Camden Town, London 1969.

How right you are, how right you are. We live in a kingdom of reigns where royalty comes in gangs. Come on lads, let's get home. The sky's beginning to bruise--night must fall and we shall be forced to camp. You have done something to your brain. You have made it high. If I lay 10 mills of diazipan on you, you will do something else to your brain; you will make it low. Why trust one drug and not the other? [To Withnail] That politics, innit it? The bathroom Marwood is in the bath shaving. His profile is visible in a mirror perched on the bath tray. Get that damned little swine out of here! It's trying to get itself in with you. It's trying for even more advantage. It's obsessed with its gut. It's like a bloody rugby ball now. It will die! It will die! I love the line where Withnail, complaining of the intense cold (yet again, inside Monty's farmhouse, says: "we might as well sit round a cigarette," or words to that effect.

The cottage It is the next day and Withnail and Marwood are sat at the table eating lunch. Marwood is spooning vegetables on to Withnail's plate. Grant, Richard E. (1996). With Nails: The Film Diaries of Richard E. Grant. Picador. ISBN 0879519355. He takes a plate with some rashes of bacon and puts them in frying pan that is cooking over the fire.

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Earliest version of cult classic Withnail and I will go under the hammer at Sotheby's". breakingnews.ie. 12 December 2015. Archived from the original on 14 December 2015. In September 1969, two unemployed young actors, flamboyant alcoholic Withnail and contemplative Marwood, live in a messy flat in Camden Town, London. Their only regular visitor is their drug dealer, Danny. One morning, the pair squabble about housekeeping and then leave to take a walk. In Regent's Park, they discuss the poor state of their acting careers and the desire for a holiday; Marwood proposes a trip to a rural cottage near Penrith owned by Withnail's wealthy uncle Monty. They visit Monty that evening at his luxurious Chelsea house. Monty is a melodramatic aesthete, who Marwood infers is homosexual. The three briefly drink together as Withnail casually lies to Monty about his acting career. He further deceives Monty by implying that Marwood attended Eton College, whilst a lithograph of Harrow School seen earlier in the flat suggests that both Monty and Withnail were educated there. Withnail persuades his uncle to lend them the cottage key and they leave. One of the most amusing British cult comedies of all time. But I must say that since I bought it on DVD, its does begin to wear a little thin on repeated viewing - mainly due to all those annoying fans who insist on reciting the best lines over and over.