When Ireland doubles for somewhere-else

George White

An increasing number of British programming is being made over here. Primeval, Foyle's War, Ripper Street, 13 Steps Down, the first series of George Gently before they moved to the actual setting of Tyneside,A Life of Crime, The Ice Cream Girls,plus Vikings, Tudors,
And loads of non-Irish set movies from schlock like Roger Corman stuff, Harry Alan Towers stuff eg FU MANchu, Boorman's stuff

What is the funniest or least convincing film set abroad but clearly made in Eire...
Primeval had empty streets, Dublin bus, Irish numberplates, no blacks, duff Irish stage actors trying British accents and it was London...

oisindoyle

"Eire"??

December2012

Vikings is visually amazing

gugleguy

Parts of wicklow for movie the blue max with pre A Team george peppard. Supposed to be set on WW1 western front

George White

Ah yes, Grandad workedon that.

Judgement Day

gugleguy wrote: »

Parts of wicklow for movie the blue max with pre A Team george peppard. Supposed to be set on WW1 western front

I think you're missing the OP's point, there was nothing unrealistic in the transformation of parts of Ireland (Calary Bog), Weston Aerodrome etc. to WW1 locations French locations. Cracking film and realistic portrayal of locations.

I recently watched "The Flame is Love" (1979) - an adaption of a Barbara Cartland story so need I say more. Dublin doubled for Paris and England in the low budget effort and just did not ring true - there were even white road markings evident in one shot despite the film being set in the 19th century! The whole budget must have been splashed on Linda Purl's wardrobe.

George White

I recently watched "The Flame is Love" (1979) - an adaption of a Barbara Cartland story so need I say more. Dublin doubled for Paris and England in the low budget effort and just did not ring true - there were even white road markings evident in one shot despite the film being set in the 19th century! The whole budget must have been splashed on Linda Purl's wardrobe. [/quote]
sounds endearingly awful.

sunbeam

Educating Rita (1983) was set in Liverpool but filmed in Dublin, complete with shots of various Dublin busses and of 'Rita' tottering across the cobblestones in TCD to meet her Open University tutor.

AnonoBoy

George White wrote: »

What is the funniest or least convincing film set abroad but clearly made in Eire...
Primeval had empty streets, Dublin bus, Irish numberplates, no blacks, duff Irish stage actors trying British accents and it was London...

Eh..... don't mean to shock you but there's plenty of black people in Ireland. If the production company don't have black actors or extras in their show it's not because they're not available in this country.

George White

AnonoBoy wrote: »

Eh..... don't mean to shock you but there's plenty of black people in Ireland. If the production company don't have black actors or extras in their show it's not because they're not available in this country.

i know. i am mixed race myself

AnonoBoy

George White wrote: »

i know. i am mixed race myself

So I don't get your point.

George White

i meant that the Primeval creators aeem to be white supremacists. The only black or ethnic characters bar doomed Egyptologist Sarah have all beeb villainous or dodgy. even in the UK made eps