Blue Juice

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Blue Juice
Promotional film poster
Directed by	Carl Prechezer
Produced by	Simon Relph
Written by	Carl Prechezer Peter Salmi Tim Veglio
Starring	Sean Pertwee Catherine Zeta Jones Ewan McGregor Steven Mackintosh
Music by	Simon Davison
Cinematography	Richard Greatrex
Editing by	Michael Ellis
Release date(s)	September 15, 1995
Running time	90 min.
Country	UK
Language	English
IMDb profile

Blue Juice is a 1995 British film directed by Carl Prechezer and starring Sean Pertwee, Catherine Zeta Jones, Ewan McGregor and Steven Mackintosh. It follows JC (Pertwee) as he attempts to reconcile his surfer lifestyle and loser friends with the pressure to grow up from his girlfriend (Jones). Blue Juice was set in Cornwall, England and released in 1995 by FilmFour productions. It was rated 15 by the British Board of Film Classification.

1 Plot
2 Wardrobe and Props
3 Supporting Cast
4 Filming Locations
5 Soundtrack
6 DVD Artwork
7 References
8 External links

[edit] Plot

JC seems to have it all figured out. By day he runs a surf school, at night he lies down next to his beautiful girlfriend Chloe. However, when his mates arrive from London unannounced it releases tensions which have long been simmering under the surface of JC and Chloe's seemingly perfect relationship. His friends, especially drug-dealer Dean are intent on causing mischief and sucking JC back into his old habits which Chloe had hoped were long gone...

[edit] Wardrobe and Props

Many of the film's characters are dressed in clothing from the pressure group Surfers against Sewage. A lot of the Characters also wear the Australian Surfwear label Mambo Graphics and Stussy hats. Wetsuits used in the film and in publicity shots were manufactured by Gul.

Surfers Against Sewage stickers and posters are widely used throughout the film, visible in the Aqua Shack scenes and applied to the blue Bedford CF van driven by JC and Chloe for the surf school.

Pertwee used toupée tape to hold a sock in place, in the scene where JC appears nude apart from a black sock. “...I came up with this ingenious ploy - wrapping toupée tape on my chap. You won't believe how difficult it is to remove..."^[1]

[edit] Supporting Cast

Blue Juice features an appearance from Jenny Agutter as a retired actress turned hotel proprietor, called Mary Fenton, who had found fame playing the role of Guinevere in a fictional television show called Arthur’s Knights.

The film also features late soul singer Edwin Starr as the fictional soul singer Ossie Sands, who had hits with Movin' On Up and The Price Of Pain, as sampled by Josh. The songs featured were recorded by Starr for the film.

Actor, comedian and writer Keith Allen had a small part as Mike, a tabloid newspaper editor, who pays the Ewan McGregor character, Dean, for stories about record producer Josh.

The role of Shaper, played by actor, artist and writer Heathcote Williams, was also offered to Nigel Terry, best known for his portrayal of King Arthur in the1981 John Boorman film Excalibur^[2].

Mark Frost, who played Moose, appeared in the 2008 ITV soap Echo Beach, also set on the Cornwall coast and featuring aspects of surf culture.

[edit] Filming Locations

The main location of the Aqua Shack is in Mousehole, whilst other locations in Cornwall included Chapel Porth, Godrevy, Newquay and St. Ives. The scene filmed at the train station was in St. Erth, just outside of Hayle. The map examined by JC, Josh and Dean whilst trying to work out where Terry has gone on the bike shows Godrevey Point and the B3301 road, a few miles north of Hayle.

The large wave and surfing sequences were filmed in Lanzarote, whilst some of surf action close ups were filmed in a specialist wave pool, as shown in the documentary that accompanies the DVD release.

[edit] Soundtrack

Movin' On Up, performed by Edwin Starr
The Price Of Pain, performed by Edwin Starr
Freedom Bug, performed by Heavy Stereo, written by Gem
Get It On
Leave Them All Behind
Half The Man, written and performed by Jamiroquai
Duel
Lonely For You Baby, performed by Sam Dees
I Need Something Stronger, performed by Apollo 440
You're The One, performed by Gillian Wisdom
You were the dream, Roscoe Shelton

[edit] DVD Artwork

For the year 2000 DVD release, the DVD case artwork for the international market was redesigned with a picture of Ewan McGregor replacing Sean Pertwee on the cover, even though McGregor had a smaller role. McGregor is depicted clean shaven and in a wetsuit, despite the fact his character in the film isn't a surfer and had a beard and long hair. Several reviewers and consumers picked up on this, including a review at www.dvdverdict.com which stated: While it is perfectly understandable to attempt to sell the disc to consumers, it is questionable whether or not this marketing push steps over the line into disinformation^[3].

A later release on DVD in 2004 reverted to the original artwork featuring Sean Pertwee and Catherine Zeta-Jones, whilst a further release in 2008 saw the artwork entirely redesigned with FilmFour branding and a fresh image of Pertwee and Zeta-Jones.

[edit] References

^ Empire Magazine, October 1995
^ IMDB, retrieved April 2008
^ Case Number 00408, Blue Juice Review, http://www.dvdverdict.com/reviews/bluejuice.php retrieved March 2008