KINKY BOOTS [2005 / 2017] [Blu-ray] [German Release] One of The Best British Feel-Good Performances of The Year! Inspired By A True Story!
Comedy-drama from director Julian Jarrold based on actual events in the UK town of Northampton. Charlie Price [Joel Edgerton], owner of the traditional men's footwear factory that has survived in his family for generations, faces the imminent closure of his beloved business which would have a severe impact on the employment prospects of local people. That is, until a chance meeting with flamboyant cabaret act Lola [Chiwetel Ejiofor] convinces him that, to stay afloat, his company's footwear range will have to branch out. Turning out stylish kinky boots for transvestites like Lola and her colleagues is not quite what he had in mind. Fun and original it's a must-have film that proves the best way to fit in is to stand out!
FILM FACT No.1: Awards and Nominations: 2005 British Independent Film Awards: Nomination: British Independent Film Award for Best Actor for Chiwetel Ejiofor. Nomination: British Independent Film Award for Best Screenplay for Geoff Deane and Tim Firth. Nomination: Douglas Hickox Award for Julian Jarrold. 2006 Black Movie Awards: Nomination: Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role for Chiwetel Ejiofor. 2006 Florida Film Festival: Win: Audience Award for Best International Feature for Julian Jarrold. 2006 London Critics Circle Film Awards: Nomination: ALFS Award for British Actor of the Year for Chiwetel Ejiofor. 2007 Golden Globes: Nomination: Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture in a Comedy or Musical for Chiwetel Ejiofor. 2007 Black Reel Awards: Nomination: Best Supporting Actor for Chiwetel Ejiofor.
FILM FACT No.2: An episode on a BBC 2 documentary series “Trouble at the Top” that was broadcast on 24th February, 1999, that inspired the film and featured Steve Pateman with a struggling shoe manufacturer business, with the imminent possible closure of W.J. Brooks Ltd, a family-controlled Earls Barton, Northamptonshire shoe factory, that soon catered to the male market for fetish footwear under the “Divine” brand. A stage musical adaptation of the same name Kinky Boots debuted on Broadway in April 2013, following an out-of-town try-out at the Bank of America Theatre in Chicago; Cyndi Lauper, music and lyrics; and Harvey Fierstein, co-wrote book. Director Jerry Mitchell is also the choreographer.
Cast: Joel Edgerton, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Sarah-Jane Potts, Jemima Rooper, Nick Frost, Linda Bassett, Robert Pugh, Ewan Hooper, Stephen Marcus, Mona Hammond, Kellie Bright, Joanna Scanlan, Geoffrey Streatfeild, Leo Bill, Gwenllian Davies, Sebastian Hurst-Palmer, Courtney N. Phillip, Ilario Bisi-Pedro, Joe Grossi, Barry McCarthy, Josh Cole, Paul Critoph, Benjamin Wilkin, Daniel Naprous, David MacCreedy, Jake Canuso, Mark Haddon, Sandra, Fausto Danese, Gianni Dileo, David Moulden, Tom Sapsford, Carmello Segura, Karl Stevens, Marcos Parker-White, David Oltan, Robert Nurse, Simon Williams, Michael Rolnick, Rod Buchanan, Robert Garrard, Anthony Palmer, Stephen Walker, The Workforce of Tricker's Shoe Factory in Northampton, Lasco Atkins (uncredited), Greg Bennett (uncredited), Dora Clouttick (uncredited), Julie Eagleton (uncredited), Christopher Fosh (uncredited), Katrina Jones (uncredited), Christopher Lee-Power (uncredited), Henry Martens (uncredited), Shivarna Mitra (uncredited), Ralph Morse (uncredited) and Henry Andrew Winkler (uncredited)
Director: Julian Jarrold
Producers: Mairi Bett, Nicholas Barton, Peter Ettedgui and Suzanne Mackie
Screenplay: Geoff Deane and Tim Firth
Composer: Adrian Johnston
Make-up & Hair Designer: Trevor Proud
Costume Designer: Sammy Sheldon
Cinematography: Eigil Bryld (Director of Photography)
Image Resolution: 1080p (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1 (Anamorphic)
Audio: German: 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio
English: 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio
German: 5.1 Dolby Digital Audio
English: 5.1 Dolby Digital Audio
Subtitles: German
Running Time: 106 minutes
Region: Region B/2
Number of discs: 1
Studio: Harbour Pictures / Price Productions Ltd / MIRAMAX Films / BBC Films / StudioCanal
Andrew’s Blu-ray Review: ‘KINKY BOOTS’ [2005] is a totally brilliant and over the top very funny film that gives us a terrific “souled and healed” in this classic British comedy with the best good feel factor ever. With the film ‘KINKY BOOTS’ it demonstrates a timelessness take on that “little guy surviving against the odds in slightly quirky circumstances” themed genre film that is so beloved of British comedies. It's underpinned by a show stopping performance by Chiwetel Ejiofor as Lola a performing drag artiste who inspired a line in shoes, and is more uplifting than a nine-inch stiletto.
Lola/Simon [Chiwetel Ejiofor] who is the strapping heroine/ hero of this quasi-inspirational British comedy film and is the very model of a modern brilliant film involving a performing drag artiste Lola who is a flamboyantly confrontational but tender-hearted under her brassy personality, where Lola/Simon, embodies a cross-dressing archetype that is sashaying ever closer to the centre stage of pop mythology. Lola arrives just in time to be the 21st-century replacement for that poignant outcast from an earlier era, in giving us a performance of the whore with a heart of gold.
Transvestism sometimes in films is rarely a pretty one, so full marks to Chiwetel Ejiofor for making the character of Simon aka Lola so well-rounded and caricatured. Chiwetel Ejiofor cross-dressing creation provides the inspiration for Charlie Price [Joel Edgerton], a damp squib whose plans to escape provincial Northampton life are dealt a bitter body blow when his father dies and he is stuck with an ailing shoe factory. Faced with cut-price competition from the Third World, Charlie Price needs to find a niche or lay off most of his staff. Step forward Lola and “her” size nines!
In the film ‘KINKY BOOTS’ starts with the Northampton shoe factory's transformation begins after its reluctant new owner, Charlie Price [Joel Edgerton], who visits London and happens to save Lola [Chiwetel Ejiofor] from being mugged. But after seeing Lola perform and of course sings "Whatever Lola Wants," what else, and suddenly Charlie Price decides to convert his business into a niche-market of a well healed boot manufactory for cross-dressers and Dominatrix, with Lola/Simon as design consultant. After a couple of false starts, it works like a total charm and makes you feel like a 100% warm glow of satisfaction.
The performing drag artiste Lola, who loves the flouting of taboos, is a preening cross-dresser performing drag artiste that definitely goes one better and Lola’s battle cries that says, "I'm more man than you'll ever be, and more woman than you'll ever get" (which was used originally in the film ‘Car Wash’) is meant to strike fear into the hearts of her male heterosexual persecutors. But having been the lifelong target of contempt and rejection, Lola has also developed a compassion for those frightened and benighted heterosexual fools, especially with the fact that Lola is a performing drag artiste entertainer and the star of a cheesy London nightclub, where Lola rattles on about sexiness and how her thigh-high red stiletto boots are “tubular sex.”
In the film ‘KINKY BOOTS,’ we have the scenario of a tale of a failing men's shoe factory in the dreary part of Northampton and out of the blue is saved from total ruin with the drag artists help, and Lola being as a black gay performing drag artiste, who gives an extra layer of alienation and insight into Lola’s type of oppression, which automatically translates into an extra layer of nobility and especially in one scene, where Lola deliberately loses an arm-wrestling competition with a heterosexual bully to allow him to save face. Now that's what I call saintly and boy, can she/he arm-wrestle!
‘KINKY BOOTS’ is now the newest in a profitable line of British films, inspired by the success of the film ‘The Full Monty,’ that portray the awakening of working-class Britons from hidebound customs and prejudices into the brave new world of exhibitionism and narcissism. Produced by the same people that were involved in the brilliant film ‘Calendar Girls,’ which was a massive hit internationally, but not for some unknown reason was a big hit in the United States.
‘KINKY BOOTS’ directed by Julian Jarrold, and is a film that is said to be based on a true story. The facts, whatever they may be, have been beaten into a totally feel-good film. But despite the fact that it might be riddled with plot holes that have the shape of a ready-made musical, which of course is so ironic with the help of the brilliant singing artist Cyndi Lauper that went onto win loads of awards. But near the end of the film it is helped right down to its dizzy and amazing finale at a Milan fashion show that is taken over by a troupe of British performing drag artists, and the film practically shouts to be danced and sung on a stage and I predict it will make you want to get up and dance and definitely cheer with glee.
‘KINKY BOOTS’ doesn't ask you to believe a single detail of what is splashed across your TV screen. All the film wants is for you to immerse you for 106 minutes of true magical wonderment and leave you with a glow of vicarious comradeship, as blue-collar blokes and performing drag artiste pull together to save the day. Foot fetishists will drool and salivate.
But most of all with the film ‘KINKY BOOTS’ it is the latest would-be crowd-pleasing British comedy saviour, that takes its cue from a true story, and offers befuddled Joel Edgerton, who has just inherited a traditional Northampton shoe factory that is heading for a disastrous bankruptcy, but in the unlikely salvation in the form of a beefy actor Chiwetel Ejiofor playing a performing drag artiste – who reveals a hitherto unsuspected niche for sturdy high heels suitable for chaps in dresses.
Thus we get triumph-of-the-underdog with a sequinned twist, except that the film makes a real meal of getting to its all-singing, all-dancing finale at a Milan fashion show. But to some critics they felt that a dreary half-hour of contrived complications in the middle of the film, for instance, while the chemistry between the two male leads is policed to rule out any suggestion of mutual attraction – instead, Charlie Price faces a clumsily loaded choice between his duck-faced nominal fiancée and Sarah-Jane Potts perky salt-of-the-earth employee. Whereas Chiwetel Ejiofor, on the other hand, runs through his dance routines with gusto, gets to sing “Whatever Lola Wants” with gusto, but we get the feeling of Lola’s no discernible sexuality of his own. Overall, the film is a totally breezy experience and again by the end of the film, you get the glow of total satisfaction with the fact that you have just witnessed a well-deserved British classic feel good film that also deserved all the awards it received.
Performance wise Joel Edgerton and Chiwetel Ejiofor complement one another in a brilliant and fantastic fashion. With the balance of man and drag artiste that really does work out for such a good and interesting ride, mainly due to the high level of performance put in from both actors. Ejiofor has always impressed me with his incredible range in different roles but as Lola I feel this is on a totally different level! With Edgerton I am seeing this as around the time he was starting to break out into bigger and leading roles, I have seen a lot of his recent work and he always impresses as well and it is definitely such a good combination in the feel good film genre that you really should not miss out on any circumstances.
This film is dedicated to the Men and Women of the original Kinky Boot Factory, Northampton, England. Filmed on location in Northamptonshire, London, Milan, Clacton on Sea and at the Ealing Studios.
KINKY BOOTS MUSIC TRACK LIST
THE PRETTIEST STAR (1970) (Written by David Bowie) [Performed by David Bowie]
WILD IS THE WIND (1957) (Music by Dimitri Tiomkin) (Lyrics by Ned Washington) [Performed by Nina Simone]
I PUT A SPELL ON YOU (1956) (Written by Screamin’ Jay Hawkins) [Performed by Nina Simone]
MY HEART BELONGS TO DADDY (1938) (Written by Cole Porter) [Performed by Chiwetel Ejiofor]
IT’S A MAN’S MAN’S MAN’S WORLD (1964) (Written by Betty Newsome and James Brown) [Performed by James Brown]
THE STRING VEST (Written by Barry Ashworth and Jason O'Bryan) [Performed by The Dub Pistols]
SUMMER HOLIDAY (1962) (Written by Bruce Welch) [Performed by Jemima Rooper]
I WANT TO BE EVIL (1953) (Written by Raymond Taylor and Lester Judson) [Performed by Chiwetel Ejiofor]
WHAT EVER LOLA WANTS (1955) (Written by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross) [Performed by Chiwetel Ejiofor]
TOGETHER WE ARE BEAUTIFUL (1980) (Written by Ken Leray) [Performed by Chiwetel Ejiofor]
MR. BIG STUFF (1971) (Written by Carrol Washington, Ralph Williams and Joseph Broussard) [Performed by Lyn Collins]
MY BONNIE LIES OVER THE OCEAN (published 1881) [Performed by Louis Jarrold]
LARGO AL FACTOTUM (from The Barber of Seville) (1816) (Composed by Gioachino Rossini) [Performed by Roberto Servile, Failoni Kamerazenekar aka The Failoni Chamber Orchestra] [Conducted by Will Humburg]
MR. MAYBE (Written by Jon Cooper) [Performed by The Visitors]
UNDERBOYS (Written by Kenneth Sarup, Nicolaj Christophersen, Allan Mattsson, Stefan Gejsing and Lasse Lyngbo) [Performed by Diefenbach]
THESE BOOTS ARE MAD FOR WALKIN’ (1966) (Written by Lee Hazlewood) [Performed by Chiwetel Ejiofor in a medley]
IN THESE SHOES (1999) (Written by Kirsty MacColl, Pete Glenister, Willie Bobo (aka Willie 'Bobo' Correa) and Melvin Lastie) [Performed by Chiwetel Ejiofor in a medley]
CHA CHA HEELS (1988) (Written by Larry Steinbachek (aka Lawrence Cole) and Steve Bronski) [Performed by Chiwetel Ejiofor in a medley]
GOING BACK TO MY ROOTS (1976) (Written by Lamont Dozier) [Performed by Chiwetel Ejiofor in a medley]
YES SIR I CAN BOOGIE (1977) (Music by Rolf Soja) (Lyrics by Frank Dostal) [Performed by Chiwetel Ejiofor during the end credits]
IN THESE SHOES (1999) (Written by Kirsty MacColl, Pete Glenister, Willie Bobo (aka Willie ‘Bobo’ Correa) and Melvin Lastie) [Performed by Kirsty MacColl during the end credits]
BONUS: I totally recommend you purchase the Original Soundtrack Compact Disc for the film ‘KINKY BOOTS,’ as you get to hear thirteen brilliant songs used in the film, but of course the best bonus of all is that you get to hear all the songs in full and it is a totally amazing package that I know that every time you put this Original Soundtrack Compact Disc on, it will lift your spirits to great heights and knowing you did the right thing in purchasing this totally brilliant Original Soundtrack Compact Disc. Highly Recommended!
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Blu-ray Image Quality – Harbour Pictures, Price Productions Ltd, MIRAMAX Films, BBC Films and StudioCanal presents us the film ‘KINKY BOOTS’ with a really wonderful 2.35:1 aspect ratio that is an anamorphic enhanced widescreen transfer. The 1080p image detail is really excellent indeed, with clarity throughout the film, and you get no noticeable softness and negligible edge to the image enhancement. There are no signs of digital artefacts. The colour scheme is quite amazingly broad and even with the usual dreary Northampton settings, you instead experience a nice palette pf colours that includes rich vibrant reds and solid blacks, allowing for decent shadowing. So all in all, this is a very good effort on the part of MIRAMAX and STUDIOCANAL. Please Note: Playback Region B/2: This will not play on most Blu-ray players sold in North America, Central America, South America, Japan, North Korea, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Southeast Asia. Learn more about Blu-ray region specifications.
Blu-ray Audio Quality – Harbour Pictures, Price Productions Ltd, MIRAMAX Films, BBC Films and StudioCanal brings us two outstanding and good solid audio experiences that consist of German: 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio and English: 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio for the film ‘KINKY BOOTS.’ The dialogue is presented very clearly, and predominantly coming from the front speakers. There are no significant effects to speak of, other than the atmospheric noises like stilettos clicking or factory machines whirring. But most of all is the film music score by the brilliant composer Adrian Johnston, but of course more importantly, the amazing soundtrack that really makes up for viewing this brilliant film is the songs (both performed and backing) brings the audio track to life and really gets you in the mood of this film in a very uplifting way and is totally “Bootylicious!”
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Blu-ray Special Features and Extras:
Special Feature: Audio Commentary from Julian Jarrold, Joel Edgerton, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Sarah-Jane Potts [Audio only] [2017] [1080p] [2.35:1] [102:35] With this featurette, we get to hear this exclusive and interesting audio commentary from director Julian Jarrold and with the ‘KINKY BOOTS’ cast members like Joel Edgerton, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Sarah-Jane Potts and delivers a really decent audio commentary track. Up first to introduce himself is Julian Jarrold and informs us that he was the director for the film ‘KINKY BOOTS,’ and then wants to introduce and they are Joel Edgerton as Charlie Price, Chiwetel Ejiofor as Lola/Simon, and last up to ne introduces is Sarah-Jane Potts as Lauren and of course they all say hello. As the film starts we get to see young boy actor Sebastian Hurst-Palmer as Young Charlie Price and they talk about this young boy actor and they auditioned loads of your boy actors until they were very happy with Sebastian Hurst-Palmer’s performance and we see him dancing on the pier in the rad high heal shoes and was very keen to do that scene, but unfortunately wooden pier was very slippery and very cold. Next we are at the shoe factory in Northamptonshire, which they took over for three gruelling weeks, where see Joel Edgerton as Charlie Price, the son of the original owner of the shoe factory and then we see father and son on the only hill in Northampton and they say about the actor Robert Pugh who of course plays Harold Price the father who they say was a very charismatic actor. They say director Julian Jarrold was obsessed in showing 100’s of shoes being made in the shoe factory, but mainly to celebrate the craft of shoe making, and felt it made it look useful and rich as possible. Next we see Joel Edgerton as Charlie Price with Robert Pugh as Harold Price [Father] talking to the workers in the factory and at the same time we see Joel Edgerton wearing new white trainers and all the commentators laugh out loud about the fact that Joel Edgerton was not wearing proper shoes from the factory, which I suppose is quite ironic, and of course a lot of the staff listening to Robert Pugh as Harold Price speech, were most of the original staff of Price & Sons Ltd., mixed in the with actors. Joel Edgerton says he was very impressed when he walked into the Price & Sons Ltd. shoe factory, and to actually shoot in the original shoe factory was really great, and the room where the office was actually designed by Alan MacDonald and they felt he did a really brilliant job, and was actually filmed in the room cavity of the shoe factory, and behind the actors are photos of other shoe factory workers in other shoe factories in Northamptonshire that sadly no longer exists. Then we see the hilarious scene where Charlie Price has to do a talk to the workers, but he forgets to press the red button on the microphone. They talk about the actor Nick Frost and although he does not have a lot of audio prescience, they felt that he had a strong presence in the film. When we see Charlie Price spill the mug of tea on the desk top, they say this was a very tricky scene to film and of course Charlie Price finally opens the top draw and find all the information the dire straits Price & Sons Ltd. are in losing money, then Charlie Price goes in one of the store rooms and finds hundreds of boxes full of shoes that were due to go to a firm that has now gone bust, and finds out people do not want the top quality shoes they make, rather buy cheaper ones that do not last. So Charlie Price goes to a pub to drown his sorrows and when he comes out of the pub and finds a tramp with his dog sitting on the pavement, all the commentators say, “There is a star of the film,” which was actually shot in Soho in London. Just at that point Charlie Price thinks he sees a women being pursued by some nasty belligerent thuggish men, but of course unknown to him at the time, does not know it is Lola the performing drag artiste, and unfortunately, Lolo hits Charlie Price in the face with her foot wear and he collapses on the pavement and is knocked out, but we are informed that it was actually Joel Edgerton’s twin brother, and when Charlie Price wakes up he is in Lola’s weird and wonderful flat, he thinks he is in heaven, and they all comment on the lovely film score by Adrian Johnston being played in the background. They ask Chiwetel Ejiofor how long it takes to put on his elaborate make-up and says it can take up to a couple of hours, but it took a couple of weeks work it all out with the make-up artist Trevor Proud. Now we see Charlie Price leaving Lola’s flat, hears music and looks through the curtain and sees Lola and the other performing drag artists performing on a stage, and the other performing drag artists with Lola were only in real dancers who are just ordinary performing dancers in real life and were only used for the film and we find out that had a terrible time in the high heel boots, as they normally dance in ordinary dancing shoes, and the place they were performing in was the old The Raymond Revuebar (1958 – 2004) was a theatre and strip club at 11 Walker's Court (now the location of The Box Soho nightclub), in the centre of London's Soho district. Next we see Joel Edgerton and Sarah-Jane Potts in The Raymond Revuebar the Soho club watching Lola performing with his drag artists dancers and Charlie Price suddenly gets an epiphany idea to rescue the shoe factory in Northamptonshire, by making highly stylised thigh length boots with strong steel heals for the performing drag artists, as well as transvestites, and we see a big red background lighting, and Julian Jarrold felt it was a very James Bond setting, and they loved shooting all the transvestites in the audience, then we see Sarah-Jane Potts, Joel Edgerton and Chiwetel Ejiofor in his drag day outfit in a Soho café and Charlie Price asks what Lola’s weight is, which is quite a funny scene, but of course they have to know the right weight so they can fit a strong enough steel heal, and this was the point they say is the strongest connection between Lola and Charlie Price. But now we are back at the shoe factory in Northamptonshire and they say this is where Charlie Price makes his bit mistake in the thigh length boot for Lola without realising it, and while we see Charlie Price making the boot, Joel Edgerton informs us how long he trained to make that thigh length boot and then we see Charlie Price fitting the thigh length boots on the actress Sarah-Jane Potts and the actress says that because she is not very tall, the thigh length boots came right up to her crutch, whereas with Lola it would be the right length, and Sarah-Jane Potts says, “this is where Charlie Price and Lauren have their sort of romantic connection, which of course we see again near the end of the film. But of course when Charlie Price takes the red thigh length boots to Lola and it is not a good scene for Charlie Price, as Lola lays into him really badly, saying he had made the red thigh length boots for a man, as the heals are just ordinary. At chapter five, it is the first time Lola has come up to the shoe factory in Northamptonshire and all the straight me stand there with their mouths wide open and all three commentators say what a great entrance for Lola and of course as Lola walks through the factory, Charlie Price is shit scared that he is seen with Lola, and this a really great moment when Charlie Price shows Lola the red thigh length boots made for her/him again and of course Lola really lays into him and tells Charlie Price in so many words that the red thigh length boots are crap and again says they are made for a man, and Lola puts the boots down where the red button on the microphone is and it is that oops moment and of course all the workers can hear the rage of Lola really laying into Charlie Price, and all the workers just stare up at the office in amazement seeing and hearing all this goings on and are in total silence. After Charlie Price tells Lola he wants the factory to succeed, so while Lola is in the factory, this is where the tied is now turning and Lola helps to get the ball rolling in getting the Kinky Boots in production that will suit the performing drag artists, and we Simon/Lola in man’s clothing and showing his vulnerable side of being like a fish out of water in being so out of his comfort zone, then we see Simon/Lola and Charlie Price in the men’s toilet discussing the problem being Simon and all the workers are outside the toilet listening to their conversation as their voices are quite loud, and this eventually is where the great friendship between Charlie Price and Simon/Lola begins. Now Charlie Price has made a great decision to ONLY make Kinky Boots and this is where the film really gets exciting, and there is a great scene where one of the workers asks Simon/Lola why he wants to be like he is, and of course Simon/Lola says, “that women want men to be more fundamentally like a woman,” and of course the heterosexual man looks utterly puzzled and I personally blame the parents for this situation. Another great scene in the film is where Lola turns up at the pub and Nick Frost as Don Barton who is the Arm Wrestler Champion for 2000 to 2005 and of course Lola challenges Don Barton, and as you will see something we all would hope Lola would win, but Lola wanted Don Barton to win so he does not lose face in front of his heterosexual mates. When we get to chapter nine, you have Charlie Price and Lauren coming back to the factory and all the lights are on blazing away and all of the workers are hard at it to make the new Kinky Boots and it is a very emotional scene, because Simon/Lola has got the workers motivated and informs Charlie Price and Lauren how it all happened, and all the commentators say it is really a magical moment and especially seeing all the workers pushing themselves to make the shoe factory a great success, and then when they have made their first batch of Kinky Boots, they all have a great party to celebrate and Simon/Lola dances with a few of them, especially Lauren and it is a really enjoyable experience, full of joy and happiness, and of course the next stop is Italy and the amazing Milan Fashion Week, where they are showing off all the stilettos, heeled boots, chunky clog silhouettes and some generally weird-looking shoes and especially the new sensational Kinky Boots. Next we get to see Charlie Price in a restaurant and Lola turns up to join him, and Charlie price feels totally embarrassed as he thinks everyone is starring at him being with Lola, and of course Lola gives Charlie Price a good telling off, as Lola tells him he is talking a load of rubbish, as Lola is nor in the business of making amazing and sensational Kinky Boots, and suddenly Charlie Price is with Lola outside the restaurant having a right royal argument and Charlie Price is making himself look so stupid and ignorant with Lola, and at that moment a tear is running down Lola’s cheek and the commentators say that they thought it was an Oscar winning moment, as well as a Golden Globe moment. At chapter ten we see Lola sitting very sad and dejected on a bench on the wooden pier and reliving the time when he was a young child dancing in red high heel shoes and at that time his father being a right royal miserable moron feeling his son was not a real man, and Chiwetel Ejiofor says it was quite dangerous doing what he did on the wooden boards like he danced when he was a young boy in the red high heel shoes and Chiwetel Ejiofor felt he was in fear of breaking his legs, and the other commentators say that the seagulls behind Lola perform beautiful. Next we are in Milan for the amazing Milan Fashion Week extravaganza in showing off all the amazing shoes as well as the Kinky Boots and before they went in we are told that they wanted to film everyone arriving on a train, but they set the camera up in the wrong place, but the train arrived on another platform, and they had a good laugh about it, and then suddenly you see Charlie Price with Lauren with one of the supervisor worker with the boxes of Kinky Boots that they hope to wow everyone in what they have created, and of course a little later on we get to view an amazing spectacular sight, but as to the place where this event is happening with the catwalk and the audience, this was actually filmed in the Ealing Studios, and they say they had about 300 catwalk models used for the main shooting sequences, but of course we get a really hilarious moment where Charlie Price has to go out onto the catwalk in one of the Kinky Boots because of the massive embarrassing row with Lola, but of course it all goes hilarious tits up, but of course we get to see a form of the cavalry comes to the rescue, but of course who turns up the rescue Charlie Price is Lola with all her preforming drag artists in the Kinky Boots and outrageous and amazing costumes, because Charlie Price before the show telephoned Lola to apologise profusely in admitting he was wrong what he said to Lola, and that actual performance with Lola and her other performing drag artists was a totally over the top magical moment, and of course Charlie Price and Lauren have their romantic connecting moment at last. At chapter twelve, we see Lola back at the club announcing her final performance, as Lola is starting a brand new career in making Kinky Boots in Northamptonshire, and Lola decides to go out in a blaze of glory and has an amazing music to accompany Lola and her other performing drag artists, and some of the workers from the Price & Sons Ltd shoe factory are in the audience enjoying the over the top entertainment, and of course sadly we are coming to the end of this amazing film and of course we get to see the words that the film is dedicated to the men and women of the Original Kinky Boots factory. At that point the director Julian Jarrold wants to thank Joel Edgerton, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Sarah-Jane Potts for their contribution to this extra special audio commentary for the fabulous film ‘KINKY BOOTS’ and thank you for listening. For me personally, I just want to sum up about this audio commentary and to say that it has been the most exciting and total utter pleasure to hear all of the contributors and I can definitely give this audio commentary a massive to five star rating, and is definitely one of the BEST audio commentary I have heard in a very long trime.
Special Feature: Image Gallery: Here you get to view 12 wonderful 1080p colour images related the film ‘KINKY BOOTS.’
Special Feature: Making of ‘KINKY BOOTS’ and the shoe factory [2017] [1080p] [2.35:1 / 1.78:1] [14:33] With this featurette, explores the real-life story of the factory, and how the idea was turned into the ‘KINKY BOOTS’ film, and talks about the wonderful BBC Documentary on the real Price & Sons Ltd shoe factory in Northamptonshire, because the boss was losing a great deal of money and decided to go into business making specialised boots for Transvestites and Drag Artists and how the performers used their interactions with the owners in their performances and more, and especially explores the real-life story of the factory in Northampton, and much more. We also get to see them filming the drag acts in the establishment we see in the film. Contributors include: Nick Barton [Producer], Steve Pateman [Factory Owner], Joel Edgerton [Charlie Price], Suzanne Mackie [Producer], Peter Ettedgui [Producer], Chiwetel Ejiofor [Lola], Trefor Proud [Make-up & Hair Designer], Julian Jarrold [Director], Sammy Sheldon [Costumer Designer], William Evans [Trucker's Head of Design], Linda Bassett [Melanie], Sarah-Jane Potts [Lauren] and Nick Frost [Don].
Special Feature: Deleted Scenes + Journey of a Brogue [2005] [1080p] [1.37:1] [10:32] With this featurette, we get to view 14 deleted scenes from the film ‘KINKY BOOTS.’ Plus: We get to view a short in-depth look which charts the manufacturing of a shoe at the Price & Sons Ltd. shoe factory in Northamptonshire.
Special Feature: Deleted Scenes [Audio only] [2005 / 2017] [1080p] [1.37:1] [9:36] With this featurette, we get to view seven deleted scenes from the film ‘KINKY BOOTS,’ but this time it includes an in-depth audio commentary from director Julian Jarrold. But to me personally, I felt they should have been left in the film ‘KINKY BOOTS.’
Special Feature: Theatrical Trailers: Here we get to view two original trailers and they are as follows:
‘La La Land’ [2017] [1080p] [2.35:1] [2:16] With this featurette, we get to view the Original Theatrical Trailer for the film ‘La La Land.’ This is in German and has no English subtitles.
‘The Beatles: Eight Days A Week: The Touring Years’ [2016] [1080p] [1.78:1] [2:15] With this featurette, we get to view the Original Theatrical Trailer for the film ‘The Beatles: Eight Days A Week: The Touring Years.’ This is in English but has visible German subtitles.
Special Feature: DVD, Blu-ray and Digital Trailers: Here we get to view three more trailers and they are as follows:
‘Can A Song Save Your Life’ [2013] [1080p] [1.78:1] [1:51] With this featurette, we get to view the Original Trailer for the film ‘Can A Song Save Your Life.’ This is in German and has no English subtitles.
‘Love & Mercy’ [2014] [1080p] [1.78:1] [2:28] With this featurette, we get to view the Original Trailer for the film ‘Love & Mercy.’ This is in German and has no English subtitles.
‘Sing Street’ [2016] [1080p] [1.78:1] [2:28] With this featurette, we get to view the Original Trailer for the film ‘Sing Street.’ This is in German and has no English subtitles.
BONUS: You have a totally stunning printed Blu-ray Slip Cover that has physical glitter on the kinky boots and on the back cover it has again physical glitter on the three stars and one kinky boot.
Finally, ‘KINKY BOOTS’ brings us no surprises to learn that the film ‘KINKY BOOTS’ is from the same team who gave us the brilliant film ‘Calendar Girls.’ It is well slick and impossible to dislike, it also presents a side of provincial British life rarely seen nowadays: that of the frustrated dreamer. Australian actor Joel Edgerton does just enough to convince that he was born and bred in Northampton. But this is of course ultimately Chiwetel Ejiofor's parade and takes you beneath Lola's sequins and delivers one of the best performances of the year. The film has such a good balance of drama, comedy and music to make it an all-round lovely film to view. I definitely feel that a huge compliment should be aimed at the film and fits in with that very good British natured story. So if you have not seen this brilliant funny and profound film, then I demand you get to view it very soon as you will certainly be missing out on something really special, because it so profound and again it is definitely a 100% feel good factor film. So please do not miss it at your peril. Very Highly Recommended!
Andrew C. Miller – Your Ultimate No.1 Film Aficionado
Le Cinema Paradiso
United Kingdom
