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Jun 6, 2023 · Yet, the film was also remarkably prophetic. Decades before climate change was a widely discussed issue, Local Hero was one of the first contemporary films to draw attention to our impact on our ...
- Anthony Frajman
Nov 27, 2022 · On one level Local Hero is a prophetic film about ongoing environmental catastrophe. But Melville hints other matters are afoot – the relationship between Scotland and America being one. Like The Maggie, Alexander Mackendrick’s 1954 Ealing pic, Scots outsmart the Americans.
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Could its be down to the way the story is a timeless (and prophetic) eco-fable? A rapacious Texan oil company shifts from its attempts to buy up a picturesque Scottish fishing village for the creation of an oil terminal, to create instead an institute dedicated to preserving and understanding the natural world. Or is it the gradual seduction of cyn...
The enduring appeal of Local Hero was only part of the reason for the EIFF screening – as well as celebrating the past life of the film, this event looked forward to a new future for Local Hero the musical. When playwright David Greig took up his post as artistic director of Edinburgh’s Royal Lyceum Theatre in 2016, he asked Forsyth if they could w...
It is well known that the film setting was itself a fiction. Shooting took place in two separate locations 175 miles apart to portray this idealised Scottish community. The main village of whitewashed fishermen’s cottages with its hotel, harbour and iconic red telephone box was filmed in Pennan on the east coast, looking out to the North Sea. The b...
- Alistair Scott
Sep 24, 2019 · Local Hero: Our Man in Ferness. B ill Forsyth is Scotland’s most famous filmmaker, and Local Hero (1983) is his most famous film—for many, the true subject of Local Hero ’s title is the Glasgow-born writer-director himself. The enduring affection and adulation for Local Hero stem from the way the film testifies, thematically and tonally ...
Local Hero is a 1983 British dramedy film written and directed by Bill Forsyth and produced by David Puttnam. It stars Peter Riegert, Burt Lancaster, Denis Lawson, Peter Capaldi, and Fulton Mackay. Riegert plays an American oil company representative who is sent to the fictional village of Ferness on the west coast of Scotland to purchase the ...
Oct 9, 2022 · The film is funny, but perhaps its real power lies in the fact that it’s more than funny and at times is exactly the opposite. Forsyth told The Herald that he was first inspired to write the ...
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The enduring call of Local Hero 40 years on. Alamy. Local Hero was released in 1983 and is recognised as a classic. It is the story of a US petro-chemical giant seeking to build a refinery in a ...
