''We've been treated like shit here this morning''
Barbara Windsor to Kenneth Williams during the filming of '...Camping'
Every so often we hear a rumour that there will be another Carry On film. Carry On London is the title which keeps popping up. It's on, it's off, on again, off again. My advice is to leave well enough alone. Was nothing learnt from the appalling '...Columbus'?
Jim Dale, June Whitfield, Leslie Phillips and Jack Douglas have all commented that it was a mistake and that perhaps they regret their involvement. It would seem that it's impossible to recreate the Carry On formula in these times. There can never be another Sid, Hattie, Joan, Charlie or Kenneth and it seems futile to try and do this. Also, we live in a world where political correctness has gone beserk and the Carry on humour is deeply rooted in being incorrect.
I think that the Carry Ons should be left where they are. I'm a great believer in the expression 'if it's not broken, don't fix it.' I adore the Carry On films but don't want to see a dead horse flogged. Let us remember these films as they were - period pieces. Humour has become much less 'nudge nudge wink wink' and blatant innuendo does not translate well to the Carry On genre. It seems to be that whenever something popular and long-running is resurrected it is either doomed to failure or proves to be a disappointing and flimsy offering.
If Carry On London ever gets made then I wish all concerned the very best of British, they're going to jolly well need it!
3 comments:
I think that a new Carry on film could work, as long as they update it and don't try to use the old formula.
But isnt the old formula the whole point of Carry on films? The very un PC humour, the farce and the slapstick?
Captain Chaos,
Yes, I agree - however as this blogger has said, in the 'PC times' we live in it simply wouldn't work. If they can find a way to adapt the humour without watering it down then it could work. Farce and slapstick (which I love) are (unfortunately) outdated these days and I don't think that cinemagoers would welcome such a film. It's a shame, but a symptom of the society we now live in.
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