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Local Hero (1983: Bill Forsyth)

 
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 2:24 pm    Post subject: Local Hero (1983: Bill Forsyth) Reply with quote
Local Hero (1983: Bill Forsyth)

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Bill Forsyth became a one-man Scottish film industry with That Sinking Feeling and Gregory’s Girl, low-budget comedies, with teenage actors and little in the way of budget. For Local Hero, he recruited a Hollywood star and retreated to the Highlands. Burt Lancaster plays the head of an oil company that wants to buy land for a refinery, but changes his mind when he sees it. The film attracted the same sort of criticism as Whisky Galore!, and the carping was equally misguided. Forsyth builds stereotypes only to undermine them - the Highland idyll shattered by a low-flying jet, the remote wee village whose minister is black, and, most memorable of all, the meal in the hotel that turns out to be the bunny rabbit Peter Capaldi had rescued from the roadside.

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Top movie!

Nice to see a film with proper storyline and where characters are varied, humorous and given time to develop and breath in their roles.
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