Talk:Leo the Last

Testerton Street
Testerton Street was used for a film: 1969 Back at Latimer Road, a decade after the race riots, John Boorman captured the changing psychogeography, as successfully as Cammell and Roeg, in Leo the Last. Or he succeeded in making an equally ‘infuriating symbolic fantasy’, as far as Halliwell was concerned. On the site of the Lancaster West Estate, Marcel Mastroianni from La Dolce Vita stars as Leo, an alienated aristocrat who brings about a ‘firework revolution’ in which his façade house across Testerton Street is destroyed. Keefe West, as ‘Jasper’, the Michael X-style charming pimp, sums it up, telling Leo, “You can afford to choose poverty.” One of Jasper’s henchmen is played by Roy Stewart, the founder of the Globe bar on Talbot Road, the black hero ‘Roscoe’ (Calvin Lockhart) wears a Clash-style leather jacket, and Brinsley Forde of Aswad is the lead black kid ‘Bip’. The urban blues soundtrack is by Ram John Holder, who also appears in the film as the priest and has a ‘Notting Hill Landlord Eviction Blues’ number.

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EDLIS Café 18:41, 20 April 2014 (UTC)  — Preceding unsigned comment added by EdRicardo (talk • contribs)