“No I’m not in London. Penrith. PENRITH!”Last year, between lockdowns, I took a much needed trip up
“No I’m not in London. Penrith. PENRITH!”Last year, between lockdowns, I took a much needed trip up to a favourite location of mine, the Lake District. A place it’s never”a mistake” to go on holiday to. It proved a great opportunity to visit a couple more Withnail And I filming locations that I’d wanted to see properly. I’d already made the trek up to see “Crow Crag” (Sleddale Hall) way back in 2009, and I’m glad I did because it’s since been sold and is under renovation. This time round I decided it’d be nice to see the phone box Withnail filmed his agent from and, because it is only just up the road from that spot, the gate that Withnail left open allowing the bull to get out. Neither are in fact located in Penrith, despite what Withnail says on the phone, but 10 miles south in the tiny village of Bampton.To amuse myself during lockdown, to ‘get out of it for a while. Get into the countryside, rejuvenate,” I thought, why not do some sketches from the photos I’ve taken at all these Withnail spots, relive the holiday.I started out much more true to the actual location, with the bus stop and phone box having the correct scale relationship to each other. The thing is, knowing the scene in the film, the phone box is the focal point, both in framing, colour and and narrative. Considering that I’ve taken liberties and resized things. I had to reign myself in from really going to town and stretching the phone box to represent Withnail, while the background bus stop stood in for a shorter I / Marwood (an idea I still like). Rather than colour things up as shown on screen I opted to reference the lemony yellow sunset you see reflected from off camera in the phone box glass and also pull some of the palette from the Ralph Steadman Withnail And I film poster. Somehow my minds eye sees the whole film in sepia and warm tints despite the rains, “beastly mud and oomska.” -- source link
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