Jenkin added: “I don’t know if the film comes across like this to some people, but the book certainly did where I wrote it as a metaphor, a story. The consistency of attention is very striking and that’s something to cause a lot of debate around the world.” “But it’s not about being commendable, it’s about bringing change. “These guys are very modest, but to convert a concept like the ending of apartheid into a calculable action is imminently commendable,” he said. With the film debuting at time when there is global upheaval surrounding racial discrimination, Annan said the film not only contributes to the discussion, but also on Jenkin’s achievement. They even dressed me up in a prison uniform so that was very evocative.” Daniel Radcliffe and Daniel Webber, who portrays co-conspirator Stephen Lee in the film, talks with director Francis Annan on set. The whole experience being there was quite amazing. “ I’ve even been to lockpickers conferences. “I’ve never been allowed to forget the story, having rewritten the book three times and a documentary’s been shown of it and I’ve talked about it over and over,” he explained. The experience brought up old memories for the activist.
Jenkin was present for the production of the film and makes a cameo as a fellow prisoner. I think he captured that pretty well and while some of the scenes are not a hundred percent accurate, but in a film like this you need to keep tension and it’s true to the narrative.” Daniel Radcliffe stars in the new film 'Escape from Pretoria', directed by Francis Annan. “But Francis had a difficult job because it was an escape that took place over a year and a half, and he had to summarise a whole lot of different actions into one little scene.
“Of course, the individual scenes are fiction,” he said. According to Jenkin himself, the film remains accurate to the narrative. My rating: 7/10.Jenkin wrote about the ordeal in his 2003 book Inside Out: Escape from Pretoria Prison, on which the film is largely based. Good prison-set movies don't come out all that often. If it lacks depth, it definitely possesses a good entertainment value, further fulfilled with great acting work.
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"Escape from Pretoria" is a great procedural thriller, a successful execution of genre mechanics, a carefully planned movie about planning. Visually, the movie excels as well, using various cool camera tricks and touching up the suspense with technical means, the cinematic language is on point all throughout. However, the performances make up for that. With the focus being on atmosphere, excitement and genre mechanics, the script is lacking in the area of depth, more precisely the characters, there's not a lot of set-up or backstory for them. The pacing's nice and even, with some great pick-ups here and there. "Escape from Pretoria" is a neat and successful exercise in a familiar formula, utilized since way back when, Clint Eastwood's "Escape from Alcatraz" has the same qualities.
It's all about the thrill of finding the means to reach freedom. Most of the time we spent inside the prison, following the routine and efforts of our three main heroes - the story focuses a lot on creating suspense and in doing so has it has created many good and very enjoyable sequences. Soon after Tim Jenkin (Daniel Radcliffe) and Stephen Lee (Daniel Webber) get arrested and sent to prison for 8 or more years, there they meet politically related Denis Goldberg (Ian Hart) and their third accomplice Leonard Fontaine (Mark Leonard Winter). The movie starts with an introduction of the political events taking place in South Africa during that time, more precisely the Apartheid. "Escape from Pretoria" is based on the prison escape of two political captives from Pretoria Central Prison in South Africa in 1979.
Francis Annan's "Escape from Pretoria", while flawed in some areas, gives legitimate thrills and keeps you excited all throughout, as you follow the trio of men on the quest of freedom. Not two weeks after "Guns Akimbo" Daniel Radcliffe rewards us with yet another great performance, this time in a tightly made, old-school B-like jailbreak thriller set against a historically true background.
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