- Scummy Man
Infobox Film | name = Scummy Man
caption = TheDVD cover
director = Paul Fraser
producer = Mark Herbert and Diarmid Scrimshaw
writer = Paul Fraser
starring = Stephen GrahamLauren Socha Andrew Turner
music =Arctic Monkeys
cinematography = Danny Cohen
editing =
distributor =Domino Records
released =2006-04-10
runtime =
language = English
budget =
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imdb_id ="Scummy Man" is a
short film , written and directed byPaul Fraser and produced byMark Herbert andDiarmid Scrimshaw , based on the song "When the Sun Goes Down" by theArctic Monkeys , and released onDVD on10 April 2006 byDomino Records . [cite news| url=http://www.amazon.co.uk/Arctic-Monkeys-Scummy-Man/dp/B000EHREFS/ref=pd_ka_1/202-0118418-1058207?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1172806237&sr=8-1| title=Directors' Review| publisher=amazon.co.uk| accessdate=2007-03-02] The film, like the song, focuses onprostitution inSheffield , and uses the same actors as themusic video to document a night in the life of thefictional 'Nina', a 15 year old drug addict who works as a prostitute in theNeepsend district.The film stars
Lauren Socha as 'Nina' and Stephen Graham as George, known by the nickname of 'Scummy Man', a violent and manipulative 'customer' of 'Nina's, who attacks and intimidates both 'Nina' and those who try to help her escape prostitution, such as a magician who offers her a job as his assistant in his act. The magician becomes a victim of the Scummy Man's behaviour but is not without his own flaws, as the film-maker begs if anyone is really inherently good. cite news| url=http://www.dominorecordco.com/site/index.php?page=releases&releaseID=633| publisher=Domino Records | title=Arctic Monkeys - Scummy Man| accessdate=2007-03-02]In order to achieve a documentary feel for the footage, the film was shot in
16mm film byDanny Cohen . The DVD includes an extra film titled "Just Another Day", which is more hopeful and upbeat in tone, and focuses on how every day events, such as being offered a lift by ataxi driver , present opportunity and hope for her future. "Just Another Day" depicts the same chain of events, but from the perspective of the taxi driver who brings the Scummy Man to Nina, who takes pity on her as she reminds him of his own daughter who died young and would have been the same age as Nina were she still alive.The name of the film comes from a line in "When the Sun Goes Down", describing the "customer" of the girl featured in the song,
The film won an award for "Best Music DVD" at the 2007
NME Awards on1 March 2007 . [cite news| last=Brandle| first=Lars| url=http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003552729| title=Arctic Monkeys Snatch Two NME Trophies| date=2007-03-01 | publisher=Billboard| accessdate=2007-03-02]References
External links
* [http://www.arcticmonkeys.com/AlbumLyrics.aspx?id=2 Arctic Monkeys When the Sun goes down Lyrics]
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