Thursday 8 July 2021

Hustle - Season 1 (2004 Tony Jordan / Bharat Nalluri)

Was this modelled on Out of Sight? I mean from a style point of view. It has that same kind of music and visual tricks like the freeze frames. Vic Boydell, who edited the first three - and thus set the series style - is having fun with all sorts of wipes all over the place, at times moving the whole image across the screen and bringing on the next. There's some bloody clever CGI too in which a scene freezes but some of the characters in it move around. Also a very funny musical number in the third episode featuring Adrian Lester and Mark Warren doing a routine in a night club. With Robert Vaughan, Robert Glenister, Jaime Murray.

It is apparently an urban myth that eye drops will cause instant diarrhoea. Also very dodgy art knowledge to suggest that Neo-Plasticist Mondrian would have come up with Cubism before Picasso - the other way around in fact (Cubism inspired him).

First three shot by Adam Suschitzky, directed by Bharat Nalluri who came up with the idea.

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