Author A.W. Wainwright visits Scotland taking in the sights of Cape Wrath, the Isle Of Skye, the Torridon Mountains and Glen Coe. An additional programme includes the Cairngorms.
Advantages: Great strong story, memorable characters, wonderful performances and a powerful film. Disadvantages: Plot at times a bit complex and I cannot remember the soundtrack.
Belonging to a film club I get to see a lot of films. In fact, watching films is one of my favourite pastimes. Recently I watched ?The Last King of Scotland?. It is a 2006 British drama film based on Giles Foden's novel.
It tells the fictional tale of Dr Nicholas Garrigan (James McAvoy). He is a young Scottish doctor who visits Uganda and meets with dictator Idi Amin (Forest Whitaker). On meeting Idi Amin he soon becomes his personal physician and this is where the story begins. The film is based around actual events of Amin's dictatorship.
The film begins in Scotland 1970 when Nicholas Garrigan graduates from medical school. The young man has no idea of the events that are about to take place in his life. He has no idea how his work will change history or where he will end up. Maybe if he did know then he wouldn't choose ...
Watching my brother-in-law-to-be, all 19 and a half stone of him, slide gracefully across the piste, I began to wonder if spending my stag weekend skiing in the Cairngorms was such a great idea.
Ordinarily, seeing a pal skiing makes me feel warm inside because it generally means I?m skiing too, and I love a bit of snow action I do.
This time, however, was different. Surreal almost.
My impending newest relative did slide gracefully, being the accomplished skier he is.
It?s just that he was going diagonally backwards, uphill, looking as bemused as it is possible to look when you?re wrapped up like a polar explorer.
We?d flown as a group of 6 from Luton to Inverness with easyjet, and were meeting a further 2 of our party at the house we?d rented for the weekend. They?d flown from Manchester with BMi, on an aircraft that still ...
Muffin_the_Mule 27.02.2009
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Advantages: A classic film with cult status Disadvantages: Not many extras here.
Highlander is one of those films that caught the audience unawares when it first came out. It had very little in the way of publicity, but the strong story and great 'presence' of the film soon spread the word that this was one movie to go and watch.
The plot is pretty simple, a Scottish warrior of the MacLeod clan in 1536 is fighting another clan and is wounded in battle. He realizes that he is different from everyone else, however, when his near fatal wounds heal up completely and it makes everyone else afraid. He meets a strange man (Connery) who explains that MacLeod is an immortal and cannot die.
It transpires that the immortals have fought each other through time and he has to train to fight to the death (which, for an immortal, means decapitation with a special sword) Refusing this, he hides out. The audience next join him ...
pbyron 29.03.2001
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Author A.W. Wainwright visits Scotland taking in the sights of Cape Wrath, the Isle Of Skye, the Torridon Mountains and Glen Coe. An additional programme includes the Cairngorms.
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