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post #1 of 5
12/22/08 at 12:28pm
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In the midst of 21 Up right now.
The best part about this series is the dramatic theme music. I'd also like to know what becomes of the polar bear at the zoo.
The characters I'm most interested in right now are the jockey, Psycho Susie and the affluent prick on the left.
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post #2 of 5
12/22/08 at 1:23pm
That theme music kills me at the end of every film. "DAH DAH DUMMMMM!!! DAH DAH DUMMMM!" It's so dramatic and out of nowhere and leaves it on a really weird note.

Great series, but I wouldn't try watching them one after the other. You'll end up seeing the same footage over and over (the films start getting really long because of this), and unfortunately the people that they chose to interview don't really have interesting lives. A few stopped showing up in later installments too, like that snobby Mr. Bean looking kid.
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post #3 of 5
12/22/08 at 1:32pm
People drop in and drop out. I disagree that they are uninteresting, but the films' strengths come from seeing the participants as parts of a mosaic. It probably would help if I lived in the UK and had a better grasp of their socio-economic structure, but I find it compelling nonetheless. I was reduced to tears by one person's arc in 49 Up.

And as I said in the "watching a whole film series in one go" thread (and to agree with Alex here), no need to watch them back to back. They cherry pick the earlier films to juxtapose against the new footage.
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post #4 of 5
12/22/08 at 1:35pm
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Yeah, I'll be spacing them out. Are they all mostly interviews? I was kind of expecting more day-in-the-life-of type footage.
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post #5 of 5
12/22/08 at 1:42pm
The day in the life stuff is pretty mundane (except the dude who goes all homeless). It's more about the interviews, and in the later films, about living their entire lives in front of a camera, which a fair share of them aren't happy about. Some of the subjects refuse to be interviewed by Apted; he has to send a proxy. I might be remembering that fuzzily, though.
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