The screaming one is the railway. The station BR totems are from the 50s/60s, and the carmine/cream coaches and green engine are from the 50s/60s, too. By this time, station signs were bog standard black text on white background boards, and trains were decked out in blue, yellow and grey.
shareCarmine & cream coaches were still in use in the UK railways by the mid-80s. Their effort in obtaining those coaches was not bad.
shareVisually, I thought they captured the seventies very well. But the script had a few anachronisms. A couple of instances of modern phraseology that wasn't in use then:
"where are the fit birds then?"
"good luck with that" (used ironically)
But apart from those minor issues, I thought it was really good.
Yes I thought the period setting wasn't bad. The firm's annual dinner dance was spot on - I've seen a few pics in my company's archives just like that!
I don't think they quite captured the true hideousness of seventies fashion though - if you look at old pics people usually have really greasy hair (washed once a fortnight on 'bath night') dreadful spacky collars, purple shirts, nylon tanktops etc. Everybody looked a bit 'seventies retro' in this film, particularly Snork with his stingy-brim trilby hat.
The cars looked a bit new, too. Yes people still had 1950s cars in the 1970s, but they were beat-up, battered old things. You didn't see immaculate 50s cars in the 1970s.
I also didn't think Fienne's character would live in a victorian-gothic villa like that (which is actually a house in Highgate, north London, near where I used to live) He would have had a modern Span-type executive Barret home.
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Agree, it didn't look or feel like the 70's I knew, it was like a 21st century retro representation of the 70's making it definitely feel and look wholly artificial.
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