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Igenlode is a member of the BFI, and just noticed that this month's program includes a showing of "Stocker's Copper" at the National Film Theatre on the South Bank (Saturday 9th July) -- being prominently billed as "starring Gareth Thomas".
http://www.the-medium-is-not-
Stocker's Copper is well worth seeing. This is the part that really got Gareth established in TV.
He plays a Welsh policeman transferred to Cornwall during a clay miners strike. The script is based on historical events.
As a Welshman, he is naturally sympathetic to the Cornish miners, but as a policeman in a special unit and proud of his job, he is pulled in two directions.
He is billeted with a Cornish family and gets very close to them in spite of their initial resentment at having him foisted on them.
As the strike draws on, the situation starts to deteriorate and the mine owners demand action.
This is well written drama, set at in 1913, a time when most people would never travel beyond the area they grew up in. Communities were close and outsiders viewed with suspicion.
It's one of Gareth's best TV roles, he's young, handsome and working with a really good cast.
Here's the first part on YouTube (and parts 2 and 3 are also on You Tube - the picture quality isn't brilliant, so if you can see if at the NFT, then go for it!)
http://www.the-medium-is-not-
Stocker's Copper is well worth seeing. This is the part that really got Gareth established in TV.
He plays a Welsh policeman transferred to Cornwall during a clay miners strike. The script is based on historical events.
As a Welshman, he is naturally sympathetic to the Cornish miners, but as a policeman in a special unit and proud of his job, he is pulled in two directions.
He is billeted with a Cornish family and gets very close to them in spite of their initial resentment at having him foisted on them.
As the strike draws on, the situation starts to deteriorate and the mine owners demand action.
This is well written drama, set at in 1913, a time when most people would never travel beyond the area they grew up in. Communities were close and outsiders viewed with suspicion.
It's one of Gareth's best TV roles, he's young, handsome and working with a really good cast.
Here's the first part on YouTube (and parts 2 and 3 are also on You Tube - the picture quality isn't brilliant, so if you can see if at the NFT, then go for it!)
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i'm vaguely tempted - the BFI just round the corner. nice to see gareth on the big screen. i went to the B7 thing they did at the BFI a while back - and it genuinely was exciting to see th same scenes that we'd seen hundreds of times before except larger and with other people.
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Fascinating to see Gareth Thomas 'being Welsh' -- and the contrast with the Cornish dialect! -- and an excellent analysis of the human element in a man who is just 'doing his job' with no particular ideological animus behind it. Indeed, he is very proud of the prowess of his countrymen when it comes to their toughness in strike action!
And -- from our modern perspective -- there's a rueful irony in the idea that police brutality consists of unarmed constables knocking people down with short wooden truncheons, rather than mine security fusillading strikers using automatic weapons...
Garath Thomas demonstrates a good singing voice :-D
And there is some striking cinematography, and some eloquent reaction shots.
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