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The Field RTE 1

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  • #32
    Yurt2
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    The Bull McCabe resides in the dark heart of every Irishman.


  • #33
    Duckworth_Luas
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    Yurt! wrote: »
    The Bull McCabe resides in the dark heart of every Irishman.
    No Yank would be foolhardy enough to come between Philip from Bosco and his sticky tape


  • #34
    branie2
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    Sean McGinley's finest scene is coming up


  • #35
    [Deleted User]
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    Conas wrote: »
    In the play version I thought Tadhg battered William to death from behind over the head. I don't think The Bull battered his head against a rock like that. Could be wrong.

    From what I recall the play was quite different in the characterisations. The Bull was just a brute in the play, though he is a dark character with a lot of redeeming features and a strong moral code in the film.


  • #36
    Gwynplaine
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    Brings back memories of the Junior Cert. Best Irish film ever.


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  • #37
    ziedth
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    Hate to be "that guy" but I found the play much better. Having all the added drama of the tinker girl, Tadgh getting beaten up by the american and the ending while good takes from I think.

    In the play they both jump the guy and Tadgh kills him and the remainder of the story is the Bull basically getting ducks in a row to get away with it. He "wins" in the end but the final scene is very sad.

    It's worth a watch if you like a amateur group is putting it on near you or something.....

    Having said all that Richard Harris is amazing in the film and Sean Bean is excellent


  • #38
    Badly Drunk Boy
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    malinheader wrote: »
    One that you can't help but watch whenever it's on. Classic.

    The film has been around for 63% of my life but I still haven't seen it.


  • #39
    MyStubbleItches
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    One of my favourite films. Harris was incredible in it. A few of us even did a bit of a ‘tour’ to Leenane, found the widow’s cottage, found the field itself, pulled rocks out of it with our bare hands as the Bull did. The smallest of us sat up on the stone wall and quoted John Hurt - ‘is it a motor’? - with an English accent. We had a bit of a play fight at the falls and headed down to the village for a pint in the Bull’s local.

    Happy times.


  • #40
    [Deleted User]
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    BoroMan32 wrote: »
    Go on now Tadgh.

    Tadhg. His name is Tadhg.

    I take this very personally.


  • #41
    George White
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    Yamanoto wrote: »
    Not sure a masterpiece can have such ropey cinematography.

    Harris is powerful though.

    It was made by Granada, and it looks like a TV production.
    Even the contemporaneous Jeremy Brett Sherlock Holmes telefilms made by Granada look miles better.
    Surprised it cost 5 million pounds. I would have said 2 at the most.


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  • #42
    Graces7
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    watched it once and once was more than enough thank you!


  • #43
    JohnnyFlash
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    Graces7 wrote: »
    watched it once and once was more than enough thank you!

    Why?


  • #44
    Sandor Clegane
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    RikkFlair wrote: »
    "Can't you just get another field?"

    :eek:

    Jaysus you're as foreign here as that yank!


  • #45
    Dakota Dan
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    It was based on a true story that happened in Kerry. https://www.google.ie/amp/s/amp.independent.ie/regionals/kerryman/news/the-unsolved-murder-that-shook-the-county-27378365.html


  • #46
    Yamanoto
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    George White wrote: »
    It was made by Granada, and it looks like a TV production.
    Even the contemporaneous Jeremy Brett Sherlock Holmes telefilms made by Granada look miles better.
    Surprised it cost 5 million pounds. I would have said 2 at the most.

    Yeah, there were some odd bits of direction too - like Berenger and Harris both looking out the parochial house window with their backs to camera, while talking to the priest. Brenda Fricker angling the mirror toward the floor during the Bulls breakdown was another curious scene.

    When the widow exits her cottage after Tadhg puts a slate on the chimney, the way the camera zoomed out to reveal Tadhg & the Bird behind a wall was like some hokey ITV drama, as you say.

    By contrast, the shots of cattle hurtling through the air was visually impressive.


  • #47
    Dakota Dan
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    Westport festival and little Johnnie Hurt.


    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yQgkV-djsC0


  • #48
    Yamanoto
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    JohnnyFlash wrote: »
    Why?

    With that particular poster, my money's on the 'showing travellers in a bad light' angle


  • #49
    StringerBell
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    Loved the film, loved the play.

    The film for the performance of Harris in particular though he had a strong supporting cast with the likes of Bean, Hurt, Fricker etc. also turning in quality work. The ending and how it differs from the stage version is very good in its own way also.

    The stage version is just top class work all round in my opinion, a great pieces of writing and its own ending is probably better in the grand scheme of things. Definitely one to go and see if it is ever playing near you, even if you didn't like the film there is every chance in the world you will feel differently about the play.

    "People say ‘go with the flow’ but do you know what goes with the flow? Dead fish."



  • #50
    c.p.w.g.w
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    The cast was pretty solid.

    Richard Harris, Sean Bean, John Hurt & Tom Beranger.

    All those actors had previously had lead/big roles in previous films.

    Cinematography wasn't great or editing. But some solid performances and of course a stellar performance from Harris as "The Bull".

    Very good film


  • #51
    Mad_maxx
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    Film is uneven but its a towering performance by Richard Harris

    Standout scene for me is where Harris delivers a monologue (when meeting the priest and the American) about what the field represents to him, it totally captured the fanaticism of the man

    "myself, my mother and father were in the field saving the hay before rain, suddenly my mother took ill, she was dieing, my father told me to go fetch a priest, I said, let's bring the hay in first!

    At that moment, my father looked at me with tears of pride in his eyes "

    The bull was a monster but so was his father, the land was the only thing in the world that mattered, his wife didn't matter, they hadn't spoken in ten years, shamey was neglected, his first son committed suicide

    The field is a horror movie


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  • #52
    Dakota Dan
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    Ray McNally was cast to play the bull and Richard Harris was cast for the priest. McNally was in poor health and couldn’t play the part.


  • #53
    branie2
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    Two Fair City actors in the film, the late Tom Jordan as a villager and Áine Ní Mhuirí as the priest's housekeeper.


  • #54
    MyStubbleItches
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    Mad_maxx wrote: »

    "myself, my mother and father were in the field saving the hay before rain, suddenly my mother took ill, she was dieing, my father told me to go fetch a priest, I said, let's bring the hay in first!

    At that moment, my father looked at me with tears of pride in his eyes "

    She sort of keeled over so to speak.


  • #55
    Graces7
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    Yamanoto wrote: »
    With that particular poster, my money's on the 'showing travellers in a bad light' angle

    That is unjustified frankly as I almost never have involved except to say treat everyone the same..

    were there travellers in it?

    I saw it soon after I arrived in Ireland and hated it. Knew nothing about travellers etc. Just hated it. So no way would I want to see it again.


  • #56
    fryup
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    utterly depressing film hated it too...

    ....and as for John Hurt's OTT portrayal of an irish gombeen...the less said the better


  • #57
    Oasis1974
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    Great acting and cast but the film itself was pretty average. The ending if I remembered was the Bull chasing the bulls into the sea or some shyte like that?


  • #58
    Graces7
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    Oasis1974 wrote: »
    Great acting and cast but the film itself was pretty average. The ending if I remembered was the Bull chasing the bulls into the sea or some shyte like that?

    all very..symbolic!


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