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Is it 'real' or not?

posted 20 years ago by Wilde_child
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I just watched this film a couple of days ago and I am confused about this partial documentary.
The scenes with Ray, the roadie, are real or is he acting throughout it all?
I read a comment right here at IMDb in which someone says he wrote the script for his scenes.
If he did so, bravo! Ray totally convinced me.

I think I must have one of those faces you can't help believing.

[–] srharry 20 years ago

Ray Gange was brought in as an actor, and was not a real Clash roadie at all.

[–] janie_jazz 20 years ago

But Ray was also friends with the band too. He wasn't a real roadie per se but he hung out and traveled with them.

[–] andrew-1604 18 years ago

Note: Ray Gange has no later acting credits.
Might be the role fo his life?

[–] podwilliams 19 years ago

Wilde Child says: I read a comment right here at IMDb in which someone says [Ray Gange] wrote the script for his scenes. If he did so, bravo! Ray totally convinced me.

As he makes clear on the DVD, he wrote diddly-squat.

The lion and the calf shall lie down together, but the calf won't get much sleep.

[–] Wilde_child 19 years ago

I watched the film on a Festival, haven't seen the dvd yet.
Thanks for the info.

I think I must have one of those faces you can't help believing.

[–] baddlydrummedboy 18 years ago

He's so middle class it hurts...

[–] InsaneClownPotsie 19 years ago

Joe Strummer was pretty good as Joe Strummer

[–] brontiustrex 19 years ago

That was Joe Strummer? I've just lost a bet that it was Meryl Streep!

Please tell me that Nicky Headon was played by Richard Pryor, I can't afford to loose two bets.

"I first became aware of it Mandrake, during the physical act of love."

[–] InsaneClownPotsie 19 years ago

brontinus your bookie must be really happy right now

[–] brontiustrex 19 years ago

He is. And I've just had to sell my pile to pay for the errors I made with The Great Rock And Roll Swindle.

It looked like R2-D2 playing the lead anyway.

"I first became aware of it Mandrake, during the physical act of love."

[–] Rhubarb156 19 years ago

yeah the guy is apparently annoyed to this day that everyone thinks that he is exactly as his charachter is. he is just acting, albeit playing a charachter with his name

[–] Studman_Productions 19 years ago

Really? Wow.

"We're gonna get drunk with Russell Crowe and head-butt some goddamn kangaroos."

[–] norah-e 17 years ago

jah?
haha.

[–] eweide 18 years ago

Well according to the recent DVD re-release, Ray Gange was friends with the band, and owned a record shop. The filmmakers approached him and he decided to go ahead and do the film. As for writing his scenes, yes and no. In his interview, he talks about how the filmmakers would just give him a really rudimentary idea of what kind of scene they wanted, and just sent him out to do it. So, for the most part, it was improv on his part.

[–] moo664 18 years ago

id be very surprised if it wasnt scripted, some of the scenes with ray and joe sound really forced

great live footage, terrible film

[–] mwoodkw 17 years ago

Ray didn't write his own lines, and he also admitted he didn't like most of his lines. I specifically remember he didn't like the line: Ray to Strummer: "Do you have to put politics into your music?" It is true, Ray and Joe were friends...and being a punk fan he would have never thought of a stupid quesion like that. Ray read lines...but the band made up their responses on the spot. That is what makes the film seem "real". Also, some of the events in the film happened in real life. When Topper and Paul get arrested for shooting pigeons...that happened.