{"id":5626,"date":"2024-05-11T16:21:15","date_gmt":"2024-05-11T20:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robinjohnson.net\/wp\/?p=5626"},"modified":"2024-05-11T16:21:15","modified_gmt":"2024-05-11T20:21:15","slug":"uk-publicity-still-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/robinjohnson.net\/wp\/uk-publicity-still-24\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Publicity Still #24"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>&#8220;You&#8217;re a big man, hit me again!&#8221;<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/storage.googleapis.com\/rjnet-wordpress\/2023\/03\/0f553055-ts-uk-still-no-24-front_1080p.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5560\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.googleapis.com\/rjnet-wordpress\/2023\/03\/0f553055-ts-uk-still-no-24-front_1080p.jpg\" alt=\"24. Pamela's father [Peter Coffield] loses his temper with Nicky (ROBIN JOHNSON) when she refuses to tell him the whereabouts of his daughter. A scene from &quot;TIMES SQUARE&quot; distributed by COLUMBIA\/EMI\/WARNER Film Distributors.\" width=\"1353\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/storage.googleapis.com\/rjnet-wordpress\/2023\/03\/0f553055-ts-uk-still-no-24-front_1080p.jpg 1353w, https:\/\/storage.googleapis.com\/rjnet-wordpress\/2023\/03\/0f553055-ts-uk-still-no-24-front_1080p-300x239.jpg 300w, https:\/\/storage.googleapis.com\/rjnet-wordpress\/2023\/03\/0f553055-ts-uk-still-no-24-front_1080p-1024x817.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/storage.googleapis.com\/rjnet-wordpress\/2023\/03\/0f553055-ts-uk-still-no-24-front_1080p-768x613.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1353px) 100vw, 1353px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m starting to think that there are two separate sets of UK black-and-white publicity stills, one with borders, one without. You know, just to make things more confusing. Thankfully, so far at least there isn&#8217;t another one labeled &#8220;24&#8221; but not full-bleed.<\/p>\n<p>On the <em>Times Square<\/em> commentary track recorded around 1999-2000, Robin says:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Peter had so much trouble with this&#8230; It was hard for him to be rough and violent with me, actually. I remember him having some trouble with that&#8230; He&#8217;s such a doll&#8230; I didn&#8217;t want to do that fake, camera-angle stuff so I let him really smack me around. [laughs] It&#8217;s my S&amp;M streak. &#8216;Smack me!'&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Although it&#8217;s hard to tell if he&#8217;s really hitting her in the film &#8211; for instance she&#8217;s definitely turning her head several frames before his hand starts traveling &#8211; as far as I can tell this still is unique in that it&#8217;s actually from the shot used in the film, just from a different, closer angle. I&#8217;d assume from that that there was no run-through or rehearsal, or even a second take, in order to reduce the wear and tear on both actors.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/storage.googleapis.com\/rjnet-wordpress\/2024\/04\/8ea2cacb-vlcsnap-2024-04-27-23h56m12s851.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-1\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.googleapis.com\/rjnet-wordpress\/2024\/04\/8ea2cacb-vlcsnap-2024-04-27-23h56m12s851.png\" alt=\"Mr. Pearl slaps Nicky.\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5631\" srcset=\"https:\/\/storage.googleapis.com\/rjnet-wordpress\/2024\/04\/8ea2cacb-vlcsnap-2024-04-27-23h56m12s851.png 853w, https:\/\/storage.googleapis.com\/rjnet-wordpress\/2024\/04\/8ea2cacb-vlcsnap-2024-04-27-23h56m12s851-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/storage.googleapis.com\/rjnet-wordpress\/2024\/04\/8ea2cacb-vlcsnap-2024-04-27-23h56m12s851-768x432.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 853px) 100vw, 853px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s impossible to tell from the film angle, but this photo definitely makes it look like a solid face-smashing slap that took something out of both performers. It seems something of a shame that it was never used for anything, as far as I know, and perhaps hasn&#8217;t been seen by anybody until now.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/storage.googleapis.com\/rjnet-wordpress\/2023\/03\/419ca900-ts-uk-still-no-24-rear_1080p.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-2\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5561\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.googleapis.com\/rjnet-wordpress\/2023\/03\/419ca900-ts-uk-still-no-24-rear_1080p.jpg\" alt=\"24. Pamela's father loses his temper with Nicky (ROBIN JOHNSON) when she refuses to tell him the whereabouts of his daughter. A scene from &quot;TIMES SQUARE&quot; distributed by COLUMBIA\/EMI\/WARNER Film Distributors.\" width=\"1350\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/storage.googleapis.com\/rjnet-wordpress\/2023\/03\/419ca900-ts-uk-still-no-24-rear_1080p.jpg 1350w, https:\/\/storage.googleapis.com\/rjnet-wordpress\/2023\/03\/419ca900-ts-uk-still-no-24-rear_1080p-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/storage.googleapis.com\/rjnet-wordpress\/2023\/03\/419ca900-ts-uk-still-no-24-rear_1080p-1024x819.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/storage.googleapis.com\/rjnet-wordpress\/2023\/03\/419ca900-ts-uk-still-no-24-rear_1080p-768x614.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1350px) 100vw, 1350px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;You&#8217;re a big man, hit me again!&#8221; I&#8217;m starting to think that there are two separate sets of UK black-and-white publicity stills, one with borders, one without. You know, just to make things more confusing. Thankfully, so far at least there isn&#8217;t another one labeled &#8220;24&#8221; but not full-bleed. On the Times Square commentary track [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5560,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[25,128,27,64,68,70,4,16,80],"class_list":["post-5626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-times-square","tag-25","tag-128","tag-nicky","tag-nicky-marotta","tag-peter-coffield","tag-promotion","tag-robin-johnson","tag-times-square-2","tag-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/robinjohnson.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/robinjohnson.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/robinjohnson.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/robinjohnson.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/robinjohnson.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5626"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/robinjohnson.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5639,"href":"http:\/\/robinjohnson.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5626\/revisions\/5639"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/robinjohnson.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/robinjohnson.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/robinjohnson.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/robinjohnson.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}