The wind that shakes the barley

Sarah** · 15-12-2008 05:01PM #1

Hi All,

Totally random thread and not like me to begin them at all but here goes....

Im just venting... After watching the film last night on TV3, the patriotic feeling came over me and i had the whole hate for the British again and I could really understand how the IRA was formed and why there is such hate towards the British in older generations.

I dont know if anyone feels the same but just thought id open up the topic for discussion!! - Im dont usually have any feeling on the situation but lastnight and this morning i did!

challengemaster · 15-12-2008 05:04PM

I thought the film was a pile of ****e.

funk-you · 15-12-2008 05:04PM

Sarah** wrote: »

Hi All,

Totally random thread and not like me to begin them at all but here goes....

Im just venting... After watching the film last night on TV3, the patriotic feeling came over me and i had the whole hate for the British again and I could really understand how the IRA was formed and why there is such hate towards the British in older generations.

I dont know if anyone feels the same but just thought id open up the topic for discussion!! - Im dont usually have any feeling on the situation but lastnight and this morning i did!

It's called 'Rocky syndrome'

-Funk

Tchaikovsky · 15-12-2008 05:05PM

Yeah I had the same feeling when I saw it in the cinema.... the apathy will return, don't worry;)

Morlar · 15-12-2008 05:05PM

You might be better off reading some books on Irish history than relying on a movie.

Shacklebolt · 15-12-2008 05:05PM

I personally hope that film is never shown on TV again its become the new AH obsession like head-shops a while back.... Everywhere you look theres a thread about it, often an incoherent drunken OP as well.

PS. This thread is fine though and I actually like the film myself. It does anger up the blood a little.

mike65 · 15-12-2008 05:05PM

If you wish to vent your Brit-bashing maybe the History/Heritage forum is for you (it contains little else!)

Its worth saying it took a BRITISH company to film the story.

jimmycrackcorm · 15-12-2008 05:06PM

It made me hate Cork people.

Curvy Vixen · 15-12-2008 05:06PM

Am waiting for the sequel re: the Omagh bombing and the Manchester bombing...my bile is rising too :rolleyes:!

1mcampo1 · 15-12-2008 05:06PM

i thought the movie was good

flyton5 · 15-12-2008 05:06PM

It was over 80 years ago. Get over it. If Sinn Fein and the DUP can powershare in Stormont you can get through "The Wind That Shakes The Barley" without wanting to petrol bomb a truck full of British people. To be fair the only people who still hate the "Brits" are knackers who sit about pubs all day claiming to be in the IRA while drinking the dole money.

AnonoBoy · 15-12-2008 05:06PM

Shacklebolt wrote: »

I personally hope that film is never shown on TV again its become the new AH obsession

This is the first thread I've seen about in AH. Have there been others recently?

CountingCrows · 15-12-2008 05:07PM

I've got my boot filled with riffles ready to free our occupied territory, room for one more...

Sarah** · 15-12-2008 05:08PM

Im not relying on the movie for the Irish history - I know all about the Irish history but to sit and watch it was upsetting. The way in which the irish were treated, how our language was stamped out and the torture. And overall the fight they fought (in the film) was for nothing as Ireland was still under british rule.....

Anyway - i liked the film, i was just saying how it made me feel towards the British compared to how i usually dont really care either way.

mike65 · 15-12-2008 05:08PM

CountingCrows wrote: »

I've got my boot filled with riffles ready to free our occupied territory, room for one more...

Grafton Street?

Shacklebolt · 15-12-2008 05:09PM

AnonoBoy wrote: »

This is the first thread I've seen about in AH. Have there been others recently?

Yes but they were blocked mainly because they were incoherent ****e.

Sarah** · 15-12-2008 05:10PM

And im not Brit Bashing either - i have no problems with the Brits i was just saying how it made me feel. An Bord Scannan made this film did they not?? The IRISH film board - hense the reason there were so many Volunteers as it was a low budget production.

stovelid · 15-12-2008 05:10PM

Switched off halfway through, because I felt that my tiocfaidh strings were being plucked.

CountingCrows · 15-12-2008 05:10PM

mike65 wrote: »

Grafton Street?

I thought it might be more iconic to set off from the GPO, but I'm easy....

Shacklebolt · 15-12-2008 05:11PM

Sarah** wrote: »

And im not Brit Bashing either - i have no problems with the Brits i was just saying how it made me feel. An Bord Scannan made this film did they not?? The IRISH film board - hense the reason there were so many Volunteers as it was a low budget production.

Ken Loach made it.. Not sure if he had assistance from Bord Scannan or not.

SEPT 23 1989 · 15-12-2008 05:11PM

maybe they should have extended the film and shown what these brave heroes
did to Protestant families in the Cork area a few years later

CountingCrows · 15-12-2008 05:12PM

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

maybe they should have extended the film and shown what these brave heroes
did to Protestant families in the Cork area a few years later

Try to sell them Virgin Mary statues?

stovelid · 15-12-2008 05:13PM

Bit hard to listen to all those Cork accents too. You almost sympathized with the Auxiliaries and Black and Tans at the end. They're only human and have their limits, after all.

Nodin · 15-12-2008 05:13PM

Sarah** wrote: »

Hi All,

Totally random thread and not like me to begin them at all but here goes....

Im just venting... After watching the film last night on TV3, the patriotic feeling came over me and i had the whole hate for the British again and I could really understand how the IRA was formed and why there is such hate towards the British in older generations.

I dont know if anyone feels the same but just thought id open up the topic for discussion!! - Im dont usually have any feeling on the situation but lastnight and this morning i did!

As our situation is more or less resolved, it might be better to use those feelings to have some empathy for what its like for those poor bast/ards around the world who are still occupied, be they Iraqis, Palestinians or Chechens, Papuans or whatever.

flyton5 · 15-12-2008 05:13PM

CountingCrows wrote: »

Try to sell them Virgin Mary statues?

I believe murder them....and burn their houses down....probably people from Mayfield/The Glen

TerrorFirmer · 15-12-2008 05:14PM

Didn't think it was a great film. It was alright but not remotely as good as people made it out to be. Still thought Michael Collins was a better and more enjoyable film. The scene at the start in 1916 is brilliant; how often do you see something that large in scale about modern Irish history on the big screen? Never.

Lockstep · 15-12-2008 05:14PM

I didn;t like it.
My old man hated it, he teaches Irish history at university and kept pointing out all the flaws in it (such as the scene where all the boyos are singing the national anthem, depsite it not having been written yet)

TerrorFirmer wrote: »

Still thought Michael Collins was a better and more enjoyable film. The scene at the start in 1916 is brilliant; how often do you see something that large in scale about modern Irish history on the big screen? Never.

Couldn't agree more.
I loved the way they had everyone there: Pearse, Connolly (on the ground and all) etc.

I thought Michael Collins was a mighty fine movie although there was a bit too much DeV bashing and errors (Collins being head plenipotentiary in the Treaty delegation)

mike65 · 15-12-2008 05:14PM

Sarah** wrote: »

An Bord Scannan made this film did they not?? The IRISH film board - hense the reason there were so many Volunteers as it was a low budget production.

Its a euro soup production

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0460989/companycredits

TV3 :eek:

Smart Bug · 15-12-2008 05:17PM

I think it's a really good film, but I reckon whatever (if any) anti-British sentiment stirred up by it is counterracted by the sheer tragedy of the Civil War.

Shacklebolt · 15-12-2008 05:17PM

TerrorFirmer wrote: »

Didn't think it was a great film. It was alright but not remotely as good as people made it out to be. Still thought Michael Collins was a better and more enjoyable film. The scene at the start in 1916 is brilliant; how often do you see something that large in scale about modern Irish history on the big screen? Never.

That film had so many historical inaccuracies it was like a work of fiction at times.

kickoutthejams wrote: »

I didn;t like it.
My old man hated it, he teaches Irish history at university and kept pointing out all the flaws in it (such as the scene where all the boyos are singing the national anthem, depsite it not having been written yet)

It had been written it just wasnt the official anthem at that time-'God Save Ireland' was. At least it wasnt as bad as Michael Collins (See above)

Gone Drinking · 15-12-2008 05:19PM

Sarah** wrote: »

And im not Brit Bashing either - i have no problems with the Brits i was just saying how it made me feel. An Bord Scannan made this film did they not?? The IRISH film board - hense the reason there were so many Volunteers as it was a low budget production.

I wouldn't mind being the wind that shakes your barley

The wind that shakes the barley

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