Waking Ned Devine

djm · Post by **djm** » Tue Nov 13, 2007 9:22 pm

Both series of Irish R.M. are on DVD. I also have the soundtrack CD. The Irish R.M. books have lots more stories in them, but somehow weren't nearly as funny as the tv show.

djm

cowtime · Post by **cowtime** » Tue Nov 13, 2007 9:27 pm

The Irish R.M. is the first series I ever recorded on my first vcr. I've still got it. Law, that was a long time ago....

fel bautista · Post by **fel bautista** » Tue Nov 13, 2007 11:57 pm

what's a vcr??

jbarter · Post by **jbarter** » Wed Nov 14, 2007 4:59 am

I love Waking Ned but I can't quite understand why Devine needed to be added to the title in the US.

emmline · Post by **emmline** » Wed Nov 14, 2007 5:42 am

jbarter wrote:I love Waking Ned but I can't quite understand why Devine needed to be added to the title in the US.

I don't understand why Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone was changed to Sorcerer's Stone for the U.S. market, or why Phillip Pullman's Northern Lights was changed to The Golden Compass.

I suppose Americans must be thought incapable of grasping subtlety, and perhaps--in many cases--that's an accurate charge.

edited for errant reflexive apostrophe usage.

jbarter · Post by **jbarter** » Wed Nov 14, 2007 5:57 am

My favourite movie name change was when the play The Madness Of George III was filmed as The Madness Of King George. The reason given was that if Americans saw that 'III' in the title they would assume it was a sequel and not watch it because they hadn't seen the other two.

jsluder · Post by **jsluder** » Wed Nov 14, 2007 10:37 am

jbarter wrote:My favourite movie name change was when the play The Madness Of George III was filmed as The Madness Of King George. The reason given was that if Americans saw that 'III' in the title they would assume it was a sequel and not watch it because they hadn't seen the other two.

Oh, and I suppose you're gonna tell us that Georges I and II weren't mad?

jbarter · Post by **jbarter** » Wed Nov 14, 2007 10:42 am

jsluder wrote:
jbarter wrote:My favourite movie name change was when the play The Madness Of George III was filmed as The Madness Of King George. The reason given was that if Americans saw that 'III' in the title they would assume it was a sequel and not watch it because they hadn't seen the other two.
Oh, and I suppose you're gonna tell us that Georges I and II weren't mad?

No it's definitely the IIIs that are mad. You just wait until we get Charles III.

HDSarah · Post by **HDSarah** » Wed Nov 14, 2007 3:38 pm

I saw Waking Ned Devine several years ago. I remember that I loved it, but I'm fuzzy on the details now. I'd better go rent it again.

Will O'B · Post by **Will O'B** » Thu Nov 15, 2007 7:15 pm

We have the dvd of Waking Ned. I can't remember if it was because the Irish was a little thick in spots or if the dialog was too soft, but I do remember that there were parts I had trouble understanding. I need to watch it again.

There is an other movie from out of Ireland that had a great premise and I think would have been much better if it was recast with Chris Rock or Eddie Murphy or someone who could give more character to the comedic role. It's about a black guy from Los Angeles who receives word that he has won a pub in a tiny Irish coastal town. He has no clue where the island is and thinks he is going to some tropical paradise. He has no more idea about Irish culture and music than the town's people have about his culture and music. I think the pub is ready to be repossessed by the bank and the town is looking to him to save the pub. I don't remember much about the movie, only that it was a disappointment with so many missed opportunities to play off of the cultural differences from both sides, and in turn learn something about themselves as well as the other person.

Will O'B · Post by **Will O'B** » Thu Nov 15, 2007 7:21 pm

jbarter wrote:My favourite movie name change was when the play The Madness Of George III was filmed as The Madness Of King George. The reason given was that if Americans saw that 'III' in the title they would assume it was a sequel and not watch it because they hadn't seen the other two.

s1m0n · Post by **s1m0n** » Thu Nov 15, 2007 9:21 pm

emmline wrote:I enjoyed it. The old lady going over the cliff in the phone booth was a little rough, but funny.

"I don't remember that part" thinks I. "Isn't it funny what you don't remember?" I call up the cliff-top scene. "The next parish west," I hear, "is the parish of New York." And then I realize I'm actually thinking of Hear my Song starring Ned Beatty.

Unless I'm mistaken, there was some flutin' in it on the voyage back to Liverpool. IMDB isn't confessing whom that might have been. They do say that Nollaig Casey was the (uncredited) fiddle player.