When Extremes Meet
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- TriviaThis film was directed and started in by my great grandfather Alfred Collins and Great Grandmother Maud Lucy. They are the coster couple who cause all the trouble on the benches. Alf started with Paul's in the 1890s and moved to Gaumont where he directed over 200 films many of them now lost.
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'When Extremes Meet' is an early example of comedy springing from class consciousness: we are clearly expected to sympathise with the lower-class characters against the middle-class ones, even though the lower-class couple are depicted in too broadly comic a manner to be plausible as real people.
A middle-class couple are sitting on a park bench, but their privacy is invaded by the sudden arrival of a garishly-dressed lower-class couple, who crowd onto the bench even though it is too narrow to support four people. The lower-class couple are drunk, and they start to grope each other in a manner surprisingly explicit for a movie made in 1905. The middle-class couple are offended by this display, and they promptly move to another bench... but the lower-class couple follow them. Then the lower-class man tries to kiss the middle-class woman. A fight starts between the two men, which escalates into a fight between the two women. A clergyman tries to intercede. A constable arrives, and of course he mistakes the clergyman as the cause of the trouble. The cop hauls the priest off to prison. The film ends with the lower-class couple cheerfully snogging away, delighted at all the trouble they've caused.
I found this film mildly funny, but I suspect that it aroused very hearty laughs indeed in 1905.
A middle-class couple are sitting on a park bench, but their privacy is invaded by the sudden arrival of a garishly-dressed lower-class couple, who crowd onto the bench even though it is too narrow to support four people. The lower-class couple are drunk, and they start to grope each other in a manner surprisingly explicit for a movie made in 1905. The middle-class couple are offended by this display, and they promptly move to another bench... but the lower-class couple follow them. Then the lower-class man tries to kiss the middle-class woman. A fight starts between the two men, which escalates into a fight between the two women. A clergyman tries to intercede. A constable arrives, and of course he mistakes the clergyman as the cause of the trouble. The cop hauls the priest off to prison. The film ends with the lower-class couple cheerfully snogging away, delighted at all the trouble they've caused.
I found this film mildly funny, but I suspect that it aroused very hearty laughs indeed in 1905.
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- F Gwynplaine MacIntyre
- Nov 30, 2002
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