1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:03,320 Speaker 1: Right now, though, we turn our attention to Gail Edmunds, 2 00:00:03,320 --> 00:00:06,840 Speaker 1: who is a year to of course share her toppic 3 00:00:07,000 --> 00:00:09,360 Speaker 1: of what we should be watching on the big or 4 00:00:09,600 --> 00:00:12,080 Speaker 1: the small screen. What are we watching? 5 00:00:12,320 --> 00:00:13,400 Speaker 2: Gail Edmunds? 6 00:00:13,440 --> 00:00:15,680 Speaker 1: Welcome, Whye I scare? 7 00:00:15,720 --> 00:00:20,440 Speaker 2: We're watching Peaky Blinders an Immortal Man, the Peaky Blinders 8 00:00:20,480 --> 00:00:22,840 Speaker 2: movie that came out this week on Netflix. 9 00:00:22,920 --> 00:00:28,360 Speaker 1: Fantastical. Let's get to the trailer. Tommy, you live in 10 00:00:28,400 --> 00:00:36,320 Speaker 1: a house haunted as costs of people who died because 11 00:00:36,360 --> 00:00:44,400 Speaker 1: of you. You abandoned your kingdom, and you abandoned your son. 12 00:00:47,040 --> 00:00:49,839 Speaker 1: Should big perkid on? 13 00:00:52,159 --> 00:00:55,160 Speaker 2: So Gypsy's son isn't running the Peaky Blinders like it's 14 00:00:55,240 --> 00:00:56,920 Speaker 2: nineteen nineteen all over again. 15 00:00:57,760 --> 00:01:06,520 Speaker 1: Good Stone can help them because I'll not gomm lit more. 16 00:01:10,560 --> 00:01:12,720 Speaker 1: I need to know that you are willing to take 17 00:01:12,800 --> 00:01:15,520 Speaker 1: part in an act of treason that will decide this 18 00:01:15,640 --> 00:01:19,680 Speaker 1: war for Germany. 19 00:01:19,840 --> 00:01:22,160 Speaker 2: I'll it's usually shout at this watching your war. 20 00:01:24,440 --> 00:01:29,520 Speaker 1: There is now Oh, it's actually a little bit chilly. 21 00:01:30,760 --> 00:01:34,120 Speaker 1: Tell us a little bit about it, and especially also Gail, 22 00:01:34,280 --> 00:01:36,880 Speaker 1: for someone who hasn't maybe followed the series, if they 23 00:01:36,880 --> 00:01:39,840 Speaker 1: can jump straight in or if they need context, but 24 00:01:39,959 --> 00:01:41,960 Speaker 1: tell us about it right. 25 00:01:42,080 --> 00:01:44,399 Speaker 2: So I think that the truth is that if you 26 00:01:44,520 --> 00:01:48,200 Speaker 2: haven't watched the thirty six episodes of Peaky Blinders that 27 00:01:48,280 --> 00:01:51,480 Speaker 2: came before this between twenty thirteen and twenty twenty two, 28 00:01:51,480 --> 00:01:54,880 Speaker 2: which are available on Netflix too, then you're looking at 29 00:01:54,920 --> 00:01:58,800 Speaker 2: a very long viewing session before you get to this movie. 30 00:01:58,800 --> 00:02:01,480 Speaker 2: Because I think that it is it's the swan song 31 00:02:01,520 --> 00:02:06,040 Speaker 2: of the gangster Tommy Shelby, who is Killian Murphy's character 32 00:02:06,120 --> 00:02:09,840 Speaker 2: in Peaky Blinders. The action sort of takes place a 33 00:02:09,919 --> 00:02:13,799 Speaker 2: few years after the series where the series finished. He's 34 00:02:13,840 --> 00:02:17,600 Speaker 2: now living as a recluse in a big mansion sort 35 00:02:17,639 --> 00:02:20,560 Speaker 2: of somewhere far away from Birmingham, which is obviously where 36 00:02:20,560 --> 00:02:25,519 Speaker 2: his gang was operating. His son, Duke has taken over 37 00:02:25,560 --> 00:02:28,840 Speaker 2: the gangs, and it's nineteen forty, so it's the middle 38 00:02:28,840 --> 00:02:32,280 Speaker 2: of the war is raging and the bombs are falling, 39 00:02:32,760 --> 00:02:35,720 Speaker 2: and his son and the Peaky Blinders are busy robbing 40 00:02:35,760 --> 00:02:38,480 Speaker 2: the war effort of things that should be going to 41 00:02:38,800 --> 00:02:43,320 Speaker 2: the front lines, and so they're even more morally bankrupt 42 00:02:43,360 --> 00:02:49,280 Speaker 2: than the previous generation of gangsters. And then the big 43 00:02:49,280 --> 00:02:52,000 Speaker 2: sort of cruxy and it's actually based on a real 44 00:02:52,080 --> 00:02:56,079 Speaker 2: operation that the Nazis did have in place called Operation Bernhard, 45 00:02:56,560 --> 00:02:59,960 Speaker 2: which was they made a whole lot of counterfeit power 46 00:03:00,639 --> 00:03:04,040 Speaker 2: currency and their plan was hither drop it over Britain, 47 00:03:05,320 --> 00:03:07,840 Speaker 2: flood the economy and crash it and they make it 48 00:03:07,880 --> 00:03:12,200 Speaker 2: easier for the Germans to invade. But instead they chose well, 49 00:03:12,320 --> 00:03:14,280 Speaker 2: I mean that didn't take place, but they sort of 50 00:03:14,400 --> 00:03:19,080 Speaker 2: chose fifty agents throughout, and one of them is selected 51 00:03:19,360 --> 00:03:23,200 Speaker 2: is the gangster Duke, who is Tommy Shelby's son, and 52 00:03:23,240 --> 00:03:27,240 Speaker 2: so eventually Tommy Shelby must come out of isolation and 53 00:03:27,440 --> 00:03:30,400 Speaker 2: go down to Birmingham and sort out the mess. And 54 00:03:30,919 --> 00:03:33,480 Speaker 2: what's interesting about this film is that it's really got 55 00:03:33,520 --> 00:03:37,600 Speaker 2: some heavy hitters in it. It's got Rebecca Ferguson as 56 00:03:37,840 --> 00:03:43,119 Speaker 2: the Romanique sort of queen who comes down to sort 57 00:03:43,160 --> 00:03:47,280 Speaker 2: of rile him of his out of his isolation. It's 58 00:03:47,320 --> 00:03:50,720 Speaker 2: got Tim Roth as John Beckett, who is the sort 59 00:03:50,720 --> 00:03:55,000 Speaker 2: of agent of the Nazis. And it's quite interesting because 60 00:03:55,000 --> 00:03:59,600 Speaker 2: there was actually a politician during this time called John 61 00:03:59,640 --> 00:04:03,760 Speaker 2: Beckett who was interred during the war for being an 62 00:04:03,840 --> 00:04:06,880 Speaker 2: arts you know, a Nazi sympathizer, but it's not really 63 00:04:06,920 --> 00:04:09,200 Speaker 2: based on him. It's more a sort of composite of 64 00:04:09,280 --> 00:04:14,960 Speaker 2: lots of different characters. I think Barry key O plays Duke, 65 00:04:15,440 --> 00:04:18,279 Speaker 2: and Stephen Graham from adolescence, you know, he wrote it 66 00:04:18,320 --> 00:04:21,520 Speaker 2: and started he also joins the cast. It's got quite 67 00:04:21,520 --> 00:04:26,960 Speaker 2: a hardcore, heavy hitting cast and it is I think 68 00:04:27,000 --> 00:04:30,160 Speaker 2: that in all and all, it looks great and it is, 69 00:04:30,240 --> 00:04:32,400 Speaker 2: as I say, the swan song of Tommy Shelby. So 70 00:04:32,440 --> 00:04:34,479 Speaker 2: anyone who's sort of familiar with the character is going 71 00:04:34,560 --> 00:04:37,719 Speaker 2: to enjoy it. But I don't think you can watch 72 00:04:37,800 --> 00:04:41,680 Speaker 2: this cold. You're going to really battle to know who's 73 00:04:41,720 --> 00:04:43,760 Speaker 2: who are. There's sort of a really great set piece 74 00:04:43,760 --> 00:04:46,240 Speaker 2: in the beginning as he gets back to Birmingham and 75 00:04:46,279 --> 00:04:49,760 Speaker 2: he walks into his old sort of pub and there's 76 00:04:49,760 --> 00:04:51,920 Speaker 2: a whole lot of sort of guy sitting in there, 77 00:04:52,200 --> 00:04:55,880 Speaker 2: and one of them says, who is Tommy Shelby? And 78 00:04:56,240 --> 00:04:58,520 Speaker 2: it's kind of like a flashback to sort of the 79 00:04:58,720 --> 00:05:02,640 Speaker 2: nineteen nineteen ginning of Peaky Blinders. So it is read 80 00:05:02,760 --> 00:05:05,880 Speaker 2: and Stephen Knight, you created Peaky Blinders, you know, he 81 00:05:06,320 --> 00:05:09,200 Speaker 2: this is It's a good, well written script. It's good, 82 00:05:09,200 --> 00:05:11,360 Speaker 2: but it really is a bit of one for the. 83 00:05:11,279 --> 00:05:15,320 Speaker 1: Fans, right, so become a fan and you can enjoy 84 00:05:15,400 --> 00:05:15,800 Speaker 1: this a. 85 00:05:15,760 --> 00:05:17,799 Speaker 2: Whole lot more pretty much. 86 00:05:18,800 --> 00:05:22,720 Speaker 1: Girl. Peaky Blind is also known for its very dark, stylish, 87 00:05:22,800 --> 00:05:27,840 Speaker 1: tense vibe. Does the movie capture that absolutely different from 88 00:05:27,839 --> 00:05:29,200 Speaker 1: it captures all of that? 89 00:05:30,000 --> 00:05:33,000 Speaker 2: Yes, it almost. It does to a large extent, feel 90 00:05:33,040 --> 00:05:36,279 Speaker 2: like an extended episode of the series. It's got the 91 00:05:36,320 --> 00:05:39,279 Speaker 2: same you know Birmingham's got that it starts at the beginning, 92 00:05:39,360 --> 00:05:41,600 Speaker 2: is that it's sort of one of the small ammunition 93 00:05:42,279 --> 00:05:45,000 Speaker 2: plants and Birmingham was actually bombed and that's the sort 94 00:05:45,000 --> 00:05:48,760 Speaker 2: of opening scene. And it is you know, that sort 95 00:05:48,760 --> 00:05:51,839 Speaker 2: of mud and dark, and you know, you do get 96 00:05:51,880 --> 00:05:55,360 Speaker 2: a sense of that whole feeling. Again. It's beautifully it's 97 00:05:55,360 --> 00:06:01,160 Speaker 2: beautifully filmed. I mean, Killiam Murphy is absolutely brilliant as 98 00:06:01,200 --> 00:06:05,960 Speaker 2: Tommy Shelby. The character is absolutely chilling. So and I 99 00:06:06,000 --> 00:06:08,200 Speaker 2: think that the only sort of the only way that 100 00:06:08,640 --> 00:06:11,320 Speaker 2: because he is a villain, right is that he comes 101 00:06:11,320 --> 00:06:13,719 Speaker 2: to fight the sort of Nazi who is the bigger 102 00:06:13,760 --> 00:06:16,640 Speaker 2: villager villain. But they don't try, They don't try and 103 00:06:17,160 --> 00:06:22,239 Speaker 2: redeem Tommy Shelby. That cannot be done. But they certainly say, well, 104 00:06:22,320 --> 00:06:24,920 Speaker 2: there are some lines even Tommy Shelby will not. 105 00:06:24,920 --> 00:06:28,120 Speaker 1: Cross brilliant and I think that's a good place to 106 00:06:28,240 --> 00:06:30,880 Speaker 1: leave it. Gail, thank you so much for sharing that 107 00:06:31,279 --> 00:06:34,479 Speaker 1: top pick with us, Gail Edmonds of course coming on 108 00:06:34,920 --> 00:06:38,479 Speaker 1: to Weekend Breakfast to always share what to watch on 109 00:06:38,520 --> 00:06:41,840 Speaker 1: the big and the small screen, and highly recommending Peky 110 00:06:41,839 --> 00:06:46,760 Speaker 1: Blinders movie any Mortal Man currently on Netflix, and of course, 111 00:06:46,800 --> 00:06:49,080 Speaker 1: as she said, don't go into it called, do some 112 00:06:49,160 --> 00:06:52,360 Speaker 1: catch up, become a fan and you're going to enjoy it.