Warm up!? We may as well sit round a cigarette. This is ridiculous. We'll be found dead in here next spring. Robinson, Bruce (1999). Withnail and Us. Channel 4. Event occurs at 1:31. The movie takes place over, um... you know, two or three weeks and the reality of the story was over two or three years.

No man, this was more like a long white hat. So he looks at the coalman and says 'What's all this? This is a court, man. This ain't fancy dress' and the coal man looks at him and says 'You think you look normal, your honour?'. Cunt give him two years.Well, you've got ten minutes, right? I want you out, `cos I want to get in. Ten minutes, right? You'd better be on your feet. In September 1969, two unemployed young actors, flamboyant alcoholic Withnail and contemplative Marwood, live in a messy flat in Camden Town, London. Their only regular visitor is their drug dealer, Danny. One morning, the pair squabble about housekeeping and then leave to take a walk. In Regent's Park, they discuss the poor state of their acting careers and the desire for a holiday; Marwood proposes a trip to a rural cottage near Penrith owned by Withnail's wealthy uncle Monty. They visit Monty that evening at his luxurious Chelsea house. Monty is a melodramatic aesthete, who Marwood infers is homosexual. The three briefly drink together as Withnail casually lies to Monty about his acting career. He further deceives Monty by implying that Marwood attended Eton College, whilst a lithograph of Harrow School seen earlier in the flat suggests that both Monty and Withnail were educated there. Withnail persuades his uncle to lend them the cottage key and they leave.

You're the food and plumbings man. I've no idea. I wish I'd found this an hour ago. I'd have taken great pleasure in gunning this pullet down.They enter the house. Marwood lights a match and as the light comes up the inside of the cottage becomes visible. It is rather spartan. What wine does withnail confiscate from monty's supplies claiming best of the century what wine does withnail confiscate from monty's supplies claiming best of the century'. Withnail makes no move, so he opens the door. Withnail virtually falls out then stands against the car. The policeman offers him a Breathalyser bag. Now, it must be stressed that Robinson has never alleged that Zeffirelli ever pursued him in such a direct manner. Nevertheless, the idea of an older man pursuing a younger man for his own ends (and against the young man’s own wishes) was inspired by Robinson’s experience on Romeo and Juliet, and it is also telling that Withnail and I is set not in the 1970s, when Robinson’s own acting career hit the skids, but in the late 1960s, when he was actually a youthful success. The period setting is vital, because at that time, of course, homosexuality had only just been legalised in Britain and it effectively remained illegal in Italy until much later. It is in that historical context that both the real-life exploits of Zeffirelli and the fictional predation of Uncle Monty must be seen. Both were older men who obviously struggled with their own sexuality (Zeffirelli himself only came out as openly gay very late in life) and if at times they resorted to an over-zealous pursuit of younger men, then it must be remembered that during their own youth any latent homosexual instincts would have had to be suppressed for fear of imprisonment. As “I” finally says of Uncle Monty, having read the note he leaves in the cottage after fleeing during the night, “Poor old bastard”. Withnail scoffs, but that lament could have applied to an entire generation of middle-aged and older homosexual men who could not easily, or even legally, join in the sexual revolution of the Sixties.