sex n the stix /in which i turn Sophies article into a piece of music

the history assassins

sniping about liberties

liberties with the truth

Foxcatcher , an angry debate

head explodingly incorrect

i asked the DOE

are any of them any good

a truth slippery and subjective

razor sharp jokes

deliberate mistakes

in compressed time



we got it wrong

post-modern comic whimsy, complete with time-travelling devices

flagging up the jokes

we had a puppet rat to do that

two California teenagers with a time machine,

Napoleon is "a short dead dude"

Caesar is "a salad-dressing dude"

nothing wrong with a puckish approach

People laughed, even in the trenches



sometimes the accurate

bits are cut

some films mess about with history

its more troubling

blacklist for "un-American activities"

rehabilitated in an Orwellian touch

a film made with the armed forces of Iran, Syria or North Korea

what if you were faithful to Che Guevara's Reminiscences

take out the character n emotion

hours of grim guerrilla campaigns

you'd make a packet

come back to deconstruct the film in class

you might balk at the f word 




That's not just about film and TV – it's a life skill."

everyone makes mistakes 

Anne Boleyn was beheaded with an axe 

a blunder 

it was a French swordsman 

Everyone knows that i do now 

the power of the moving image 

even when its tosh 

it takes root in my imagination 

they emanated from that great steaming heap of lies

but its a fictional movie 


some films blur the line 

what you see on the screen 

is completely made up 

n interfered with 

sometimes the director 

is a dunce bully or class clown 

tough questions 

nine men about to change history 



all these years to make a film that powerful

far out hairstyles 

the conmen were not so amiable in real life 

a heroic version 

the drug is poison 

 humdrum macho heroism

the nuns were lovely 

they save themselves by murdering civilians