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From Quatermass to The Year Of The Sex Olympics, the voice of classic British screenwriter Nigel Kneale is still resonant and exciting...
Conflict drives drama. What people want and how they set out to get it makes for the best entertainment: Chief Brody wants to make Amity Island a safe place for his kids; Indiana Jones wants to find the Ark of the Covenant; Mark Watney wants to survive on Mars, A giant shark, a bunch of Nazis, and a planet without an atmosphere respectively stand in their way.
But conflict isn't only a device from which to hang big action sequences. The tension between ideas can make for brilliant drama - the kind of film and television that you think about for years afterwards - and one of the best screenwriters for this conflict of ideas was Nigel Kneale.
Kneale was born in 1922 in Barrow-in-Furness and,...
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From Quatermass to The Year Of The Sex Olympics, the voice of classic British screenwriter Nigel Kneale is still resonant and exciting...
Conflict drives drama. What people want and how they set out to get it makes for the best entertainment: Chief Brody wants to make Amity Island a safe place for his kids; Indiana Jones wants to find the Ark of the Covenant; Mark Watney wants to survive on Mars, A giant shark, a bunch of Nazis, and a planet without an atmosphere respectively stand in their way.
But conflict isn't only a device from which to hang big action sequences. The tension between ideas can make for brilliant drama - the kind of film and television that you think about for years afterwards - and one of the best screenwriters for this conflict of ideas was Nigel Kneale.
Kneale was born in 1922 in Barrow-in-Furness and,...
- 10/19/2015
- by simonbrew
- Den of Geek
Feature Philip Tibbetts 18 Jul 2013 - 07:00
To mark its 60th birthday, Philip salutes the Quatermass series, the grandfather of Doctor Who and mainstream UK sci-fi...
This year sees the anniversary of an iconic sci-fi show, perhaps one of the most important in British TV history. Pioneering in both writing and production, the show left an indelible heritage to the genre that will outlast even this diamond anniversary: Quatermass is sixty years old.
Professor Bernard Quatermass, leader of the British space programme, first appeared on the 18th of July 1953. Quatermass’ name – with its unusual surname and forename reference to the astronomer, Bernard Lovell – was intended to provide a sense of “awe and magnitude” to his character. In The Quatermass Experiment, the professor deals with the return of a manned space mission where the sole survivor transforms into something alien. This story only partially survives and was re-made live by the BBC...
To mark its 60th birthday, Philip salutes the Quatermass series, the grandfather of Doctor Who and mainstream UK sci-fi...
This year sees the anniversary of an iconic sci-fi show, perhaps one of the most important in British TV history. Pioneering in both writing and production, the show left an indelible heritage to the genre that will outlast even this diamond anniversary: Quatermass is sixty years old.
Professor Bernard Quatermass, leader of the British space programme, first appeared on the 18th of July 1953. Quatermass’ name – with its unusual surname and forename reference to the astronomer, Bernard Lovell – was intended to provide a sense of “awe and magnitude” to his character. In The Quatermass Experiment, the professor deals with the return of a manned space mission where the sole survivor transforms into something alien. This story only partially survives and was re-made live by the BBC...
- 7/17/2013
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
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