"Black Mirror" Fifteen Million Merits (2011)

Director:

Euros Lyn

Writers:

Charlie Brooker &
Konnie Huq

TV Series:

"Black Mirror" (2011)

Original Air Date:

11 December 2011 (Season 1, Episode 2)

Genre:

Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller

Plot:

In a bleak,automated future Britain Bing is one of millions who pedal exercise bikes to create energy as a living...

Plot Keywords:

TV Mini-Series

Cast

Daniel Kaluuya	...	Bing
Jessica Brown Findlay	...	Abi
Paul Popplewell	...	Dustin
Rupert Everett	...	Judge Hope
Julia Davis	...	Judge Charity
Ashley Thomas	...	Judge Wraith
Isabella Laughland	...	Swift
David Fynn	...	Oliver
Colin Michael Carmichael	...	Kai (as Colin Carmichael)
Hannah John-Kamen	...	Selma Telse
Kerrie Hayes	...	Glee
Eugene O'Hare	...	Hammond
Jaimi Barbakoff	...	Anna
Merce Ribot	...	Big Shot Registration Lady
Matthew Burgess	...	Botherguts Host
Laura Power	...	Interviewer
Matt Stokoe	...	Guard
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Chloe Driver	...	Cleaner
Alan Lambie	...	Rude Dancer
Bryony Neylan-Francis	...	Sex Worker

Directed by
Euros Lyn

Writing credits
Charlie Brooker		&
Konnie Huq		(as Kanak Huq)

Produced by
Charlie Brooker	....	executive producer
Annabel Jones	....	executive producer
Emma Pike	....	line producer
Barney Reisz	....	series producer

Original Music by
Stephen McKeon

Cinematography by
Damian Bromley

Film Editing by
Jamie Pearson

Casting by
Shaheen Baig

Production Design by
Joel Collins		(series designer)
Daniel May

Art Direction by
Caroline Barclay

Set Decoration by
Robert Wischhusen-Hayes

Costume Design by
Jane Petrie

Makeup Department
Natasha Dickson	....	makeup artist
Lesley Lamont-Fisher	....	makeup designer
Jo Sweeting	....	hair & make-up supervisor

Production Management
Alistair Hopkins	....	post-production supervisor

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Lydia Currie	....	first assistant director
Alex Jeffrey	....	third assistant director
Hayley Longhurst	....	second assistant director

Art Department
Bryony Bradford	....	art department assistant
Dave Davidson	....	3d artist
Dougie Glenn	....	stand-by props
Dean Hawley	....	hod painter
Vicky Hurley	....	stand-by art director
Gemma Kingsley	....	graphic art director
Alejandro Mackay	....	stand-by props
Jim Mate	....	dressing props
Erica McEwan	....	graphic designer
Wesley Peppiatt	....	dressing props
Scott Rogers	....	property master
Ellie Shanks	....	production buyer
Sophie Tarver	....	prop maker
John Watt	....	supervising carpenter

Sound Department
Chris Ashworth	....	sound mixer
Jason Bennett	....	sound maintenance engineer
Jodie Campbell	....	sound assistant
Philip Clements	....	foley editor
Catherine Duffy	....	sound assistant
Luis Fernandez Garcia	....	mix technician
Jim Goddard	....	sound effects editor
Martin Jensen	....	sound re-recording mixer
Forbes Noonan	....	adr recordist

Special Effects by
Bernard Newton	....	special effects
Scott Peters	....	special effects technician

Visual Effects by
Justin Atkinson	....	visual effects supervisor
Justin Hutchinson-Chatburn	....	visual effects supervisor

Stunts
Crispin Layfield	....	stunt coordinator

Camera and Electrical Department
Jon Beacham	....	first assistant camera
Damian Bromley	....	camera operator
Martin Cox	....	electrician
Giles Keyte	....	stills photographer
Mark Kozlowski	....	digital imaging technician
Ian Murray	....	h.o.d. rigger
Ian Murray	....	standby rigger
Ian Rolfe	....	rigger
Alba Maria Ruiz	....	camera assistant
Grant Taylor	....	rigger
Jackson Taylor	....	clapper loader
Steve Weightman	....	grip
Jon Beacham	....	camera operator: "b" camera (uncredited)

Casting Department
Layla Merrick-Wolf	....	casting assistant
Aisha Walters	....	casting associate

Costume and Wardrobe Department
Emma Ackerman	....	costume assistant
Genevieve Cox	....	costume standby
Vanessa Lingham	....	wardrobe supervisor
Holly Smart	....	wardrobe mistress

Editorial Department
Michelle Cort	....	digital intermediate technician
Andrea Cuadrado	....	content editor
Alastair Hopkins	....	post production supervisor
Andrew Melhuish	....	assistant editor
Des Murray	....	on-line editor
Jateen Patel	....	digital intermediate technician
Gareth Spensley	....	colorist
Katelin Westwood	....	data transfer
Steve Owen	....	data transfer (uncredited)

Other crew
Adrian Banyard	....	script editor
James Davidson	....	floor runner
Rachel Donkor	....	production accountant
Non Eleri Hughes	....	script supervisor
Kelly Lee	....	assistant co-ordinator
Sharon McGuinness	....	unit manager
Chrissy Murray	....	assistant accountant
Robin Pim	....	location manager
Stephen Quinn	....	production runner
Anna Robertson	....	assistant to executive producers

Production Companies

• Zeppotron

Distributors

• Channel 4 (2011) (UK) (TV)
• Cinemax (2012) (Hungary) (TV)
• Home Box Office (HBO) (2013) (Netherlands) (TV) (HBO3) (limited)
• Sky Cinema (2012) (Italy) (TV) (Sky Cinema 1)
• Sveriges Television (SVT) (2012) (Sweden) (TV) (SVT1)

Other Companies

• I'm Rigging  rigging services

Runtime:

62 min

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Netherlands:16

Company:

Zeppotron

What was that?

Whatever it was, it nearly made me suffocate with holding my breath.

You know that feeling you get, that almost nausea, that exhilarating terror when you take the plunge over a roller-coaster loop, that feeling of stretching out a finger to barely touch something transcendental, that white blank feeling you get when you've hit ground zero and the truth is there, almost there...

No?

I've had that feeling before. I almost can't quite remember when, just that the enormity of feeling something like that couldn't possibly be contained in a memory.

This makes no sense, does it?

I don't know - but tell me you didn't feel something rare when you watched Bing nearly commit cultural, political and physical suicide on that stage. I've never seen anything that's managed to depress and stimulate me at once. I've never seen anything that raw and human. Not for a long time.

Watch it?

And transcribe the end speech. I would have that tattOOED.