Sexy Beast is a 2000 crime film directed by Jonathan Glazer (in his feature film directorial debut) and written by Louis Mellis and David Scinto. Starring Ray Winstone, Ben Kingsley, and Ian McShane, it follows Gary “Gal” Dove (Winstone), a retired criminal visited by a sociopathic gangster (Kingsley) who demands that he take part in a bank robbery in London.
Sexy Beast was critically acclaimed, and Kingsley’s performance earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor.[3] Total Film named Sexy Beast the 15th best British film. It was the final film to feature Cavan Kendall, who died of cancer shortly after filming ended.[4]
British ex-criminal Gary “Gal” Dove is happily retired on the Costa del Sol with his beloved wife DeeDee, his best friend Aitch, and Aitch’s wife Jackie. An old criminal associate, the feared sociopath Don Logan, arrives at Gal’s villa, intent on enlisting Gal for a bank robbery in London planned by crime lord Teddy Bass. Teddy has learned about the bank vault from Harry, the bank’s chairman, whom he met at an orgy. Gal declines, but Don continues to pressure Gal, growing increasingly aggressive and violent.
After Gal suggests that Don’s real reason for visiting is his infatuation with Jackie, with whom he had a brief affair, Don grows furious and leaves. On the plane back to England, Don refuses to extinguish his cigarette prior to takeoff, is aggressive to staff and other passengers, and is ejected, but avoids punishment by claiming that a flight attendant sexually assaulted him. He returns to the villa screaming obscenities and attacks Gal with a glass bottle. DeeDee emerges with Gal’s hunting shotgun and shoots Don, incapacitating him; the group beat him, shoot him to death, and bury him under the swimming pool.
To avoid raising suspicion among Don’s associates, Gal decides to do the job in London. When Teddy questions Gal about Don’s whereabouts, Gal lies, claiming that Don returned to London and called him from Heathrow Airport, which arouses suspicion in Teddy. The heist involves using diving gear to drill into the bank vault from a pool in a neighbouring bath house. The pool water muffles the sound of the drilling equipment and also floods the vault and shorts its security system. As Teddy’s crew empties the vault’s safe deposit boxes, Gal secretly pockets a pair of ruby and diamond earrings.
After the job, Teddy insists on driving Gal to the airport. He stops at Harry’s home, where he shoots Harry and demands that Gal tell him where Don is. Gal responds that he is “not into this any more”. While dropping Gal off, Teddy indicates that he knows that Gal was involved in something happening to Don, and implies that Gal would be severely punished if Teddy cared at all about Don. He suggests he may visit Gal in Spain and humiliates him by paying him only 10 for the job.
Gal returns to his friends and family in Spain, where DeeDee wears the earrings and life has returned to normal. Gal still hears Don’s voice in his head; he responds that Don is dead now and can “shut up”.
Sexy Beast was shot in London and Agua Amarga, Spain in the summer of 1999. Ray Winstone travelled to Spain two weeks before filming commenced to get as deep a tan as he could in the time possible and to eat as much as he could to bulk up considerably. He later called this “the best rehearsal time I’ve ever had in my life”.[5] Winstone had originally been considered for the role of Don, along with Anthony Hopkins.[6]
“Sexy Beast was the beginning of a new phase for me of working with first-time filmmakers. Jonathan Glazer was a television commercials director in the UK, and a wonderful talent. We were sent this script which he was attached to, and out came this wonderful film. It was very stimulating having a first time talent… The dialogue as you see in this film is exceptional. I had never read a script like it, and I thought, this has got to be made. It was very difficult to get insurance on the film actually. When the American studio bought the film, their legal department said: “You cannot make this.” It has something like 300 uses of the word “cunt”, and 400 “fucks”, but somehow it passed the censorship and got out there.”
It received praise from writers at the San Francisco Chronicle,[10] Entertainment Weekly,[11] Slate,[12] Rolling Stone[13] and the Los Angeles Times.[14] Stephen Hunter of The Washington Post was less enthusiastic, describing the plot as “preposterous” and highlighting “Ben Kingsley spraying saliva-lubricated variants of the F-word into the atmosphere like anti-aircraft fire for 10 solid minutes” as the film’s “one guilty pleasure”.[15]
Kingsley’s performance received a majority of the accolades given to Sexy Beast, winning Best Supporting Actor awards from the Broadcast Film Critics Association, Boston Society of Film Critics, Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association, Florida Film Critics Circle, San Diego Film Critics Society, Southeastern Film Critics Association and the Toronto Film Critics Association. He also was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award (losing to Ian McKellen for his performance in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring), a Golden Globe and an Academy Award (losing both to Jim Broadbent for his performance in Iris).
Original music for the film was composed by Spanish composer/saxophonist Roque Baos and English electronic band UNKLE in collaboration with South.[18] Dean Martin’s version of “Sway” accompanies the film’s end credits. The soundtrack also includes “Peaches” by The Stranglers, “Cuba” by The Gibson Brothers, “G-Spot” by Wayne Marshall, “Daddy Rollin’ Stone” by Derek Martin, and Henry Mancini’s “Lujon”.
A prequel television series based on the film was in development at Paramount Network, which was being produced by Paramount Television Studios and Anonymous Content. However, the series was scrapped by Paramount Network. On 15 February 2022, ViacomCBS Networks UK And Australia announced that the series was revived for Paramount+, but would instead be produced by Train a Comin’ Productions, Familystyle, Chapter One, Solas Mind, Anonymous Content and Paramount Television International Studios.[21] The eight-episode series was released on 25 January 2024.[22]
Sex scenes have been an essential part of Hollywood movies for a long time, sometimes to depict nuances of the storyline, other times to flesh out the characters, quite literally. Many movie sex scenes have gone down in history as being the most tasteful or the steamiest.
Unlike them, this list is all about sex scenes that went down like the Titanic, not so much because of the lack of chemistry, but because of the cheesiest, cringiest dialogues that accompanied them. So here are some of the least sexy lines that arguably ruined otherwise scintillating scenes, though maybe some of these cringe one-liners floats your boat.
Cillian Murphy and Florence Pugh seem to have decent chemistry, but the reason behind the overhyped sex scene is a dialogue, taken from the holy Hindu scripture, the Bhagvad Gita. To have it said while Pugh mounts Murphy is awkward, to say the least:
It is a really exciting film from a technical perspective. Shot on a mix of IMAX and Ultra-Panavision 65mm film stocks, the film mixes an ultra-wide aspect ratio of 2.76:1 (last used a decade ago for The Hateful Eight) with an ultra-tall image of 1.43:1 for the select IMAX sequences. I saw this on IMAX 70mm opening day and the shifting from a ultra-wide to ultra-tall image was jaw-dropping, opening up the frame in some key sequences to make audiences who see it in IMAX feel as though they are being transported to another place entirely alongside the characters. It stays in the ultra-wide image for the whole runtime when seen on non-IMAX formats, and even then the film is so good that it utilises this rare ultra-widescreen image in really exciting and unique ways. It being shot on the highest quality celluloid film formats means the film retains a thoroughly gorgeous and deeply cinematic look. It is rare for modern blockbuster films to shoot on film, let alone this first-of-its-kind combination, and the results are truly marvellous. This was absolutely gorgeous on the big screen both times I have seen it.
Sinners is a fascinating product of the circumstances of its existence. With Christopher Nolan changing studio allegiances to Universal, Warner Brothers desperately sought to bring new auteur filmmakers to their side. To do so, they went around town giving original voices lots of money and lots of freedom to do whatever they wanted. One of those people was Ryan Coogler. Director of Fruitvale Station, Creed, Black Panther and its sequel Wakanda Forever, Coogler was given $90 million to make whatever he wanted with total creative freedom and the rarest of contract clauses; after 25 years, the copyright ownership of the film will revert from Warner Bros back to Coogler, the kind of deal reserved only for the most respected of filmmakers such as Quentin Tarantino. Coogler actually owns this movie, and circumstances such as this help to make Sinners all the more thematically rich.
When we are able to express ourselves so truly through art, we escape to another plane of existence entirely where time cannot hurt any of us, and Sinners expresses this with such optimism and hard-fought joy
I find it even more moving as a lifelong film lover to see another filmmaker express, via the medium of music within his cinematic medium, just how soul-enriching art is and can be, and how art is in many ways how human beings escape their mortality, even if just for a second. When we are able to express ourselves so truly through art, we escape to another plane of existence entirely where time cannot hurt any of us, and Sinners expresses this with such optimism and hard-fought joy. It does all this whilst also touching on ideas of assimilation, migrant identities and culture clashes in really fascinating ways through its unique twists on familiar supernatural lore. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PLXQ8na2bIsko7MA31HKjSlqV0j9fgia/view
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Sexy Beast is a 2000 crime film directed by Jonathan Glazer (in his feature film directorial debut) and written by Louis Mellis and David Scinto. Starring Ray Winstone, Ben Kingsley, and Ian McShane, it follows Gary “Gal” Dove (Winstone), a retired criminal visited by a sociopathic gangster (Kingsley) who demands that he take part in a bank robbery in London.
Sexy Beast was critically acclaimed, and Kingsley’s performance earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor.[3] Total Film named Sexy Beast the 15th best British film. It was the final film to feature Cavan Kendall, who died of cancer shortly after filming ended.[4]
British ex-criminal Gary “Gal” Dove is happily retired on the Costa del Sol with his beloved wife DeeDee, his best friend Aitch, and Aitch’s wife Jackie. An old criminal associate, the feared sociopath Don Logan, arrives at Gal’s villa, intent on enlisting Gal for a bank robbery in London planned by crime lord Teddy Bass. Teddy has learned about the bank vault from Harry, the bank’s chairman, whom he met at an orgy. Gal declines, but Don continues to pressure Gal, growing increasingly aggressive and violent.
After Gal suggests that Don’s real reason for visiting is his infatuation with Jackie, with whom he had a brief affair, Don grows furious and leaves. On the plane back to England, Don refuses to extinguish his cigarette prior to takeoff, is aggressive to staff and other passengers, and is ejected, but avoids punishment by claiming that a flight attendant sexually assaulted him. He returns to the villa screaming obscenities and attacks Gal with a glass bottle. DeeDee emerges with Gal’s hunting shotgun and shoots Don, incapacitating him; the group beat him, shoot him to death, and bury him under the swimming pool.
To avoid raising suspicion among Don’s associates, Gal decides to do the job in London. When Teddy questions Gal about Don’s whereabouts, Gal lies, claiming that Don returned to London and called him from Heathrow Airport, which arouses suspicion in Teddy. The heist involves using diving gear to drill into the bank vault from a pool in a neighbouring bath house. The pool water muffles the sound of the drilling equipment and also floods the vault and shorts its security system. As Teddy’s crew empties the vault’s safe deposit boxes, Gal secretly pockets a pair of ruby and diamond earrings.
After the job, Teddy insists on driving Gal to the airport. He stops at Harry’s home, where he shoots Harry and demands that Gal tell him where Don is. Gal responds that he is “not into this any more”. While dropping Gal off, Teddy indicates that he knows that Gal was involved in something happening to Don, and implies that Gal would be severely punished if Teddy cared at all about Don. He suggests he may visit Gal in Spain and humiliates him by paying him only 10 for the job.
Gal returns to his friends and family in Spain, where DeeDee wears the earrings and life has returned to normal. Gal still hears Don’s voice in his head; he responds that Don is dead now and can “shut up”.
Sexy Beast was shot in London and Agua Amarga, Spain in the summer of 1999. Ray Winstone travelled to Spain two weeks before filming commenced to get as deep a tan as he could in the time possible and to eat as much as he could to bulk up considerably. He later called this “the best rehearsal time I’ve ever had in my life”.[5] Winstone had originally been considered for the role of Don, along with Anthony Hopkins.[6]
“Sexy Beast was the beginning of a new phase for me of working with first-time filmmakers. Jonathan Glazer was a television commercials director in the UK, and a wonderful talent. We were sent this script which he was attached to, and out came this wonderful film. It was very stimulating having a first time talent… The dialogue as you see in this film is exceptional. I had never read a script like it, and I thought, this has got to be made. It was very difficult to get insurance on the film actually. When the American studio bought the film, their legal department said: “You cannot make this.” It has something like 300 uses of the word “cunt”, and 400 “fucks”, but somehow it passed the censorship and got out there.”
It received praise from writers at the San Francisco Chronicle,[10] Entertainment Weekly,[11] Slate,[12] Rolling Stone[13] and the Los Angeles Times.[14] Stephen Hunter of The Washington Post was less enthusiastic, describing the plot as “preposterous” and highlighting “Ben Kingsley spraying saliva-lubricated variants of the F-word into the atmosphere like anti-aircraft fire for 10 solid minutes” as the film’s “one guilty pleasure”.[15]
Kingsley’s performance received a majority of the accolades given to Sexy Beast, winning Best Supporting Actor awards from the Broadcast Film Critics Association, Boston Society of Film Critics, Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association, Florida Film Critics Circle, San Diego Film Critics Society, Southeastern Film Critics Association and the Toronto Film Critics Association. He also was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award (losing to Ian McKellen for his performance in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring), a Golden Globe and an Academy Award (losing both to Jim Broadbent for his performance in Iris).
Original music for the film was composed by Spanish composer/saxophonist Roque Baos and English electronic band UNKLE in collaboration with South.[18] Dean Martin’s version of “Sway” accompanies the film’s end credits. The soundtrack also includes “Peaches” by The Stranglers, “Cuba” by The Gibson Brothers, “G-Spot” by Wayne Marshall, “Daddy Rollin’ Stone” by Derek Martin, and Henry Mancini’s “Lujon”.
A prequel television series based on the film was in development at Paramount Network, which was being produced by Paramount Television Studios and Anonymous Content. However, the series was scrapped by Paramount Network. On 15 February 2022, ViacomCBS Networks UK And Australia announced that the series was revived for Paramount+, but would instead be produced by Train a Comin’ Productions, Familystyle, Chapter One, Solas Mind, Anonymous Content and Paramount Television International Studios.[21] The eight-episode series was released on 25 January 2024.[22]
Sex scenes have been an essential part of Hollywood movies for a long time, sometimes to depict nuances of the storyline, other times to flesh out the characters, quite literally. Many movie sex scenes have gone down in history as being the most tasteful or the steamiest.
Unlike them, this list is all about sex scenes that went down like the Titanic, not so much because of the lack of chemistry, but because of the cheesiest, cringiest dialogues that accompanied them. So here are some of the least sexy lines that arguably ruined otherwise scintillating scenes, though maybe some of these cringe one-liners floats your boat.
Cillian Murphy and Florence Pugh seem to have decent chemistry, but the reason behind the overhyped sex scene is a dialogue, taken from the holy Hindu scripture, the Bhagvad Gita. To have it said while Pugh mounts Murphy is awkward, to say the least:
It is a really exciting film from a technical perspective. Shot on a mix of IMAX and Ultra-Panavision 65mm film stocks, the film mixes an ultra-wide aspect ratio of 2.76:1 (last used a decade ago for The Hateful Eight) with an ultra-tall image of 1.43:1 for the select IMAX sequences. I saw this on IMAX 70mm opening day and the shifting from a ultra-wide to ultra-tall image was jaw-dropping, opening up the frame in some key sequences to make audiences who see it in IMAX feel as though they are being transported to another place entirely alongside the characters. It stays in the ultra-wide image for the whole runtime when seen on non-IMAX formats, and even then the film is so good that it utilises this rare ultra-widescreen image in really exciting and unique ways. It being shot on the highest quality celluloid film formats means the film retains a thoroughly gorgeous and deeply cinematic look. It is rare for modern blockbuster films to shoot on film, let alone this first-of-its-kind combination, and the results are truly marvellous. This was absolutely gorgeous on the big screen both times I have seen it.
Sinners is a fascinating product of the circumstances of its existence. With Christopher Nolan changing studio allegiances to Universal, Warner Brothers desperately sought to bring new auteur filmmakers to their side. To do so, they went around town giving original voices lots of money and lots of freedom to do whatever they wanted. One of those people was Ryan Coogler. Director of Fruitvale Station, Creed, Black Panther and its sequel Wakanda Forever, Coogler was given $90 million to make whatever he wanted with total creative freedom and the rarest of contract clauses; after 25 years, the copyright ownership of the film will revert from Warner Bros back to Coogler, the kind of deal reserved only for the most respected of filmmakers such as Quentin Tarantino. Coogler actually owns this movie, and circumstances such as this help to make Sinners all the more thematically rich.
When we are able to express ourselves so truly through art, we escape to another plane of existence entirely where time cannot hurt any of us, and Sinners expresses this with such optimism and hard-fought joy
I find it even more moving as a lifelong film lover to see another filmmaker express, via the medium of music within his cinematic medium, just how soul-enriching art is and can be, and how art is in many ways how human beings escape their mortality, even if just for a second. When we are able to express ourselves so truly through art, we escape to another plane of existence entirely where time cannot hurt any of us, and Sinners expresses this with such optimism and hard-fought joy. It does all this whilst also touching on ideas of assimilation, migrant identities and culture clashes in really fascinating ways through its unique twists on familiar supernatural lore. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PLXQ8na2bIsko7MA31HKjSlqV0j9fgia/view
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