directed by Phil Davies, produced by Judith Hunt
starring
1991 Channel Four television
.
George, a wheelchair user, living in an institution for disabled people, is a rebel who loves Heavy Metal music and dreams of joining a motorcycle gang. A frustrated artist who would give anything to paint lurid designs on Hell's Angel bikes. Then one day, he meets a girl in a leather jacket and discovers she is the girlfriend of the leader of a bike gang.
After proving his courage, he is accepted as an associate member, but ends up being seduced by the Boss-man's moll. The climax comes when he incites the gang to create street art which ends in a battle with the police.
This teleplay was especially written as a starring role vehicle for me. It was the first time on British television that a genuinely disabled actor played the romantic lead and got to do a "bedroom scene".
It was also subversive in another way, in that it encouraged and inspired many disabled people to express themselves militantly and become actively involved in protest movements.
© 1997 jinghiz@msn.com
"Man is what he wills himself to be after his thrust toward existence. Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself."
- Jean Paul Sartre
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