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Wild Mountain Thyme - Jamie Dornan & Emily Blunt

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  • #122
    golondrinas1
    Registered Users Posts: 108 ✭✭golondrinas1


    breezy1985 wrote: »
    Maybe "Outside Mullingar" will be looked back on someday as Ireland's "Springtime for Hitler"

    Excuse Me I liked springtime for Hitler.


  • #123
    CastorTroy
    Registered Users Posts: 28,790 ✭✭✭✭CastorTroy


    Going by the Irish accents I hear in films and tv, I can't even do an Irish accent.

    Not a dig at his accent, but I find it funny that in the tv series Warrior, they have an English actor playing an Irish man who's fighting because they're giving Irish jobs to foreigners,


  • #124
    TICKLE_ME_ELMO
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 23,925 Mod ✭✭✭✭TICKLE_ME_ELMO


    pixelburp wrote: »
    That's a good point: further to that, IIRC they used regional English accents to accentuate relative Russian status and social class, which was a neat move. Assuming it was deliberate of course.

    All the miners were Scottish, I believe, so I think you might be right.
    I agree about not making actors do accents, tbh. Nothing takes me out of a film more than a bad accent. Holidate on Netflix was a recent example of them just letting the lead actor use his natural Australian accent and it didn't make a blind bit of difference to the story, other than me not cringing everytime his accent slipped.


  • #125
    erada
    Registered Users Posts: 30 ✭erada


    gmisk wrote: »
    Then she is in new york....and no twin towers so it's set past 2001...

    Sounds about right. Land Rover Defender, modern John Deere tractor and cattle with plastic tags so you are correct it's 2001 at the earliest.


  • #126
    JP Liz V1
    Registered Users Posts: 84,927 ✭✭✭✭JP Liz V1


    If it gets a cinema release here I can see it breaking box office records :p nearly on 10 pages for thread so far and all over the media
    https://forumofgames.com/




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  • #127
    CastorTroy
    Registered Users Posts: 28,790 ✭✭✭✭CastorTroy


    4 pages here. But yeah I was thinking the same. Probably more pages than a lot of better films have after release.


  • #128
    siblers
    Registered Users Posts: 12,354 ✭✭✭✭siblers


    One eyed Jack wrote: »
    Saw this on the Today show earlier, and even Daithí O Sé struggled with it. It’s very much geared towards an “Irish diaspora” in the US audience, same as Normal People and PS I Love You before it... and then some -


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edBNaGuRAks
    Not sure where the comparison with Normal People is coming from. There was nothing 'diddly i' about that


  • #129
    Homelander
    Registered Users Posts: 4,345 ✭✭✭Homelander


    Now I truly understand how the people of Kazakhstan feel about Borat....


  • #130
    Mickeroo
    Administrators, Computer Games Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 32,132 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Mickeroo


    joe40 wrote: »
    I don't think actors should change their accents at all in movies. Just act. The TV show chernobyl was one of the most gripping dramas I have seen, it would have been ruined by everyone trying to do Russian accents.

    Funnily enough, our own Jessie Buckley was the only one who didn't use her own accent in that show I think?
    Homelander wrote: »
    Now I truly understand how the people of Kazakhstan feel about Borat....

    I could be wrong but I'm pretty sure most Kazakhs look more Asian than Eastern European too :o


  • #131
    TICKLE_ME_ELMO
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 23,925 Mod ✭✭✭✭TICKLE_ME_ELMO


    Mickeroo wrote: »
    Funnily enough, our own Jessie Buckley was the only one who didn't use her own accent in that show I think?

    Barry Keoghan too


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  • #132
    breezy1985
    Registered Users Posts: 24,343 ✭✭✭✭breezy1985


    Mickeroo wrote: »
    Funnily enough, our own Jessie Buckley was the only one who didn't use her own accent in that show I think?

    There are a fair few Irish actors who I've either never heard their real accents or its been so long I've forgotten. Ide say people got some shock when they head down to Cork expecting everyone to sound like Myers and Murphys TV accents and imagine Chernobyl if Buckley done the whole thing sounding like Daithi O'Se


  • #133
    cosatron
    Registered Users Posts: 2,004 ✭✭✭cosatron


    how they haven't colm meaney cast as the dad is beyond me.


  • #134
    Homelander
    Registered Users Posts: 4,345 ✭✭✭Homelander


    cosatron wrote: »
    how they haven't colm meaney cast as the dad is beyond me.

    Realistically because they had no interest in Irish accents. Of course they know Irish people don't speak like that. The actors involved also know this.

    The whole production plays to stereotypes believed by a shocking amount of American people to be actually reflective of real life in Ireland.

    It is annoying, but a lot of countries are a victim of this at various points.


  • #135
    TICKLE_ME_ELMO
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 23,925 Mod ✭✭✭✭TICKLE_ME_ELMO


    Homelander wrote: »
    Realistically because they had no interest in Irish accents. Of course they know Irish people don't speak like that. The actors involved also know this.

    The whole production plays to stereotypes believed by a shocking amount of American people to be actually reflective of real life in Ireland.

    It is annoying, but a lot of countries are a victim of this at various points.

    It's not even the accents that get me, although they are awful, it's the dialogue. Some of the sentence structures are just weird. Even in a real Irish accent they'd sound ridiculous.
    It's actually something I noticed in another trailer this year for a film called Pixie, also featuring bad Irish accents. The main character speaks in a weird way too. I know maybe we have a different way of saying things to the English or the Americans but it's like they're trying to replicate a way of speaking but end up just making it sound like we're just talking s**te.


  • #136
    breezy1985
    Registered Users Posts: 24,343 ✭✭✭✭breezy1985


    cosatron wrote: »
    how they haven't colm meaney cast as the dad is beyond me.

    Cause ide say Meaney would tell them to F off.
    Im sure someone will pop up here with some awful film that I've forgotten but I always thought Meaney picked his roles well


  • #137
    ixoy
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 17,988 Mod ✭✭✭✭ixoy


    breezy1985 wrote: »
    Cause ide say Meaney would tell them to F off.
    Im sure someone will pop up here with some awful film that I've forgotten but I always thought Meaney picked his roles well
    He wasn't in a position to say anything when 'Star Trek: The Next Generation' did that racist Irish episode linked to earlier but, when his star power had increased in 'Star Trek: Deep Space Nine', he indeed told the writers to F off when they wanted to write an episode featuring a leprechaun. They changed it. Good on him.


  • #138
    breezy1985
    Registered Users Posts: 24,343 ✭✭✭✭breezy1985


    TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »
    It's not even the accents that get me, although they are awful, it's the dialogue. Some of the sentence structures are just weird. Even in a real Irish accent they'd sound ridiculous.
    It's actually something I noticed in another trailer this year for a film called Pixie, also featuring bad Irish accents. The main character speaks in a weird way too. I know maybe we have a different way of saying things to the English or the Americans but it's like they're trying to replicate a way of speaking but end up just making it sound like we're just talking s**te.

    I agree it's not the accents it's "wen he says dose tings"


  • #139
    breezy1985
    Registered Users Posts: 24,343 ✭✭✭✭breezy1985


    ixoy wrote: »
    He wasn't in a position to say anything when 'Star Trek: The Next Generation' did that racist Irish episode linked to earlier but, when his star power had increased in 'Star Trek: Deep Space Nine', he indeed told the writers to F off when they wanted to write an episode featuring a leprechaun. They changed it. Good on him.

    I've wrote a bit before on Trek forums to explain to Americans about how O'Brien is a good example of a real foreign character. He likes a pint but isn't a drunk, his best friend is English and there's no controversy or mention of the 800 years and they even do Battle of Britain reenactments together, his wife is Japanese because not all Irish people end up with redhead Coleen's and he gets away with saying feck on TV. He is probably one of the most real Irish characters on US TV because the let the actual Irish man have an input in his character.

    The leprechaun story was an episode where peoples dreams come to life and his daughter was supposed to dream of a leprechaun and he said F off so it was changed to Rumpelstiltskin


  • #140
    iguana
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 12,909 Mod ✭✭✭✭iguana


    ixoy wrote: »
    He wasn't in a position to say anything when 'Star Trek: The Next Generation' did that racist Irish episode linked to earlier but, when his star power had increased in 'Star Trek: Deep Space Nine', he indeed told the writers to F off when they wanted to write an episode featuring a leprechaun. They changed it. Good on him.

    Pity that Voyager hadn't temporarily needed O'Brien's skills when they departed DS9 and got stuck in the Delta Quadrant. He could have fücked the Fair Haven episodes right off out of the show too.


  • #141
    KungPao
    Registered Users Posts: 4,781 ✭✭✭KungPao


    Still my favourite, to be sure, is the episode of Murder She Wrote, set here on the Emerald Isle.

    A mad mix of made up accents and, ah to be sure now Jessica, paddywhackery turned up to 11.

    Quite unbelievable, so it was, to be sure now.


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  • #142
    TICKLE_ME_ELMO
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 23,925 Mod ✭✭✭✭TICKLE_ME_ELMO


    dashcam123 wrote: »

    Walkens is poor but he pulls off some lines really good like when he says he doesn't see a path to leave the farm and he's asked from where to where and he says "from me to you". Did that perfectly imo.

    Yeah, bizarrely the few seconds Walken remembers to do an accent it's actually passable. But the majority of his lines he just sounds like Christopher Walken.


  • #143
    Lollipop95
    Registered Users Posts: 1,269 ✭✭✭Lollipop95


    TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »
    It's not even the accents that get me, although they are awful, it's the dialogue. Some of the sentence structures are just weird. Even in a real Irish accent they'd sound ridiculous.
    It's actually something I noticed in another trailer this year for a film called Pixie, also featuring bad Irish accents. The main character speaks in a weird way too. I know maybe we have a different way of saying things to the English or the Americans but it's like they're trying to replicate a way of speaking but end up just making it sound like we're just talking s**te.

    “It was he who kissed me!” Yep - an actual line from the trailer


  • #144
    JP Liz V1
    Registered Users Posts: 84,927 ✭✭✭✭JP Liz V1


    cosatron wrote: »
    how they haven't colm meaney cast as the dad is beyond me.

    He is busy as Santy for Aldi
    https://forumofgames.com/




  • #145
    BuyersRemorse
    Registered Users Posts: 97 ✭✭BuyersRemorse


    Der's more to Ireland dan dis.


  • #146
    HBC08
    Registered Users Posts: 3,285 ✭✭✭HBC08


    cosatron wrote: »
    how they haven't colm meaney cast as the dad is beyond me.

    Colm Meaney is above that and anyway he was busy doing Paddy Power ads and the Lidl Santy.


  • #147
    breezy1985
    Registered Users Posts: 24,343 ✭✭✭✭breezy1985


    JP Liz V1 wrote: »
    He is busy as Santy for Aldi

    There's a great Facebook page about him called Roddy Doyle's Star Where the mix his Rabbitte character with O'Brien


  • #148
    JP Liz V1
    Registered Users Posts: 84,927 ✭✭✭✭JP Liz V1


    ixoy wrote: »
    He wasn't in a position to say anything when 'Star Trek: The Next Generation' did that racist Irish episode linked to earlier but, when his star power had increased in 'Star Trek: Deep Space Nine', he indeed told the writers to F off when they wanted to write an episode featuring a leprechaun. They changed it. Good on him.

    wvEc1GN2uwLsTvMB7

    Meaney did play a Leprechaun
    https://forumofgames.com/




  • #149
    sky88
    Registered Users Posts: 8,689 ✭✭✭sky88


    as ridiculous as the accents are i prob wouldn't do a better one if i tried another irish accent


  • #150
    Hangdogroad
    Registered Users Posts: 4,882 ✭✭✭Hangdogroad


    breezy1985 wrote: »
    Speaking of outside Mullingar, my favourite tweet so far:

    "Wait wait wait #WildMountainThyme is based on a play called outside Mullingar? Mountains? The Flipping Sea? Ridey Men? How far outside Mullingar is this place?"
    Theres a movie from the early 90s called Hear My Song which has the Cliffs Of Moher in Offaly.


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  • #151
    KungPao
    Registered Users Posts: 4,781 ✭✭✭KungPao


    sky88 wrote: »
    as ridiculous as the accents are i prob wouldn't do a better one if i tried another irish accent

    That’s true for me too in fairness. I can do Fintan from along the south dart line, and Deco from the north dart line.

    A decent tinker accent maybe. But that’s about it.


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