Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Withnail and I" in English language version.
The movie takes place over, um... you know, two or three weeks and the reality of the story was over two or three years.
The reason he's called Withnail is because when I was a little boy, um, I knew this bloke named Jonathan Withnall N-A-double-L and I 'cause I can't spell I called him 'Nail'. And he backed his Aston Martin into a police car coming out of a pub car park. And he was like the coolest guy I had ever met in my life so, consequently, that name stayed in my... my head.
Paul McGann's character is Marwood, uh, but he's only referred to as 'I' in the story.
Marwood was always like that little grain of sand...
I've got pictures to prove it. I've never been fat. [...] I think that's part of the 'auteur' self-worship that directors indulge themselves in. [...] Bollocks to that!
I have to confess, I first heard about Withnail and I in terms of a drinking game – could you watch the film while matching the two lead characters shot for shot, pint for pint, Camberwell carrot for Camberwell carrot?
And he leans over to me and says 'Are you a sponge or a stone?'
