![]() ![]() The trailer joined the illustrious company of Cats and Sonic the Hedgehog in the world of promos that the internet universally made fun of, with the accents mocked for being wide of the mark (like, the whole North Atlantic Ocean, wide of the mark.) Now if you excuse me I have to run out the back to milk a cow while ensuring a pick a few potatoes for dinner on the way and I’ll have a chat with a leprechaun while I’m at it, because that is obviously the real Ireland as Shanley sees it.Wild Mountain Thyme was a movie in some ways damned before it was ever released. ![]() I always, try and find something redeeming in even the most awful film but nothing works here. So I think you can gather that I hated this. I mean Colin Farrell and Michael Fassbender have no problem being understood! Shanley again takes credit for that telling Variety in December 2020 that no one would understand the characters if they sounded exactly like his relatives spoke, and said “you have to make the accent more accessible to a global audience”. To be fair apparently the actors aren’t to blame for the accents. Blunt actually looks completely unconvinced throughout. Walken dials it in and awful doesn’t begin to describe his attempts at the accent. I was particularly astonished that Dornan’s accent was so bad since he actually is Irish. On a scale of one to Tom Cruise in Far and Away it’s an eleven. Every single solitary accent is appalling. Have I sold it to you yet? Wait, there’s more. Fast forward to lots of “hilarious” confusion, culture clashes and the most hackneyed stereotyping you have seen in many years. So enter his American cousin Adam (Hamm) who makes his intentions towards her clear as he arrives in Ireland to look into taking over Anthony’s family farm. Rosemary (Blunt) who is described as “headstrong farmer” in the official synopsis (so she’s Biddy from Glenroe if Biddy looked like a model and had a terrible accent and knew nothing about farming), is infatuated with her neighbour Anthony (Dornan) who is oblivious to her charms, which of course makes her want him all the more. Yet, ironically, this film isn’t a parody and he is serious! So before I even tell you what this is about I think you can pretty much gauge the disdain that he judges our nation with. Writer/ director Shanley didn’t make it for the Irish telling the Irish Independent last December: “no good will come from trying to get the Irish to love you.” He added: “I told Emily (Blunt) when we first talked about this project, ‘I’m not making this movie for the Irish’.” And in the same interview the poor dear also compared himself to John Millington Synge and Frank McCourt, claiming that their works drew criticism for their depiction of Ireland as impoverished and its people as primitive and violent. Even the truly awful Chasing Leprechauns was less patronising than this movie. ![]() Treat it like a Coronavirus super spreader that you don’t even want to be in vicinity of because this is Paddywhackery on an astonishing level. I don’t usually start a review like this but if you are Irish and don’t want your blood to boil then avoid this film like the plague. Starring: Emily Blunt, Jamie Dornan, Jon Hamm, Dearbhla Molloy, Christopher Walken ![]()
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