The Comic Strip Presents...1982

[first lines]

Verity:
We're all very excited about your script, aren't we David?

Film Executive:
Oh, we all love the script. All of us.

Verity:
It's so wonderful. It's... It's quite fabulous.

Film Executive:
Absolutely

Verity:
It's brilliant, quite brilliant.

Bernard:
Yes, well what initially attracted me to the idea is...

Verity:
[to waiter] Bucks Fizz, please.

Bernard:
...is there's this unashamedly powerful, socialist epic. And as a director, the way Paul's captured the sheer size of the struggle...

Film Executive:
[to waiter] Anything but a Coca Cola, thank you.

Bernard:
...millions of people unemployed. Families ripped apart, whole communities on tranquilisers.

[to waiter]

Bernard:
Thank you. It's... It's... It's magnificent.

Verity:
No, It's smashing stuff. I mean when I got to the end I felt as if I had been through the miners' strike myself.

Film Executive:
Oh absolutely! I mean if we're going to revitalize the British film industry from an American perspective then 'Miners Strike' is undoubtedly the sort of film we should be doing this year.

Verity:
Oh, I agree. It has terrific potential.

Film Executive:
[pause] What about Al Pacino as Arthur Scargill?

Goldie:
Can Pacino box?