HI
im an irish girl and im doing a project for school so i was wondering if you could help me.
i would like to know if watching the movie affected your views of irish people at all.
for example did it make you think we all talk like that?
or that we all believe in leprechauns??
or we all lived in thatched cottages and drive horse drawn carriages??
thanks a mill, hope you can answer as soon as possible! (projects due tomorrow!!)
I only watched this movie since adulthood. My wife and I watch it frequently. I know it is only a movie and doesn't depict the Irish culture exactly. But I would love to visit Ireland and soak in the culture and the countryside!
shareThis movie, and "The Quiet Man" depict a long-gone mythical Ireland that everyone knows no longer exists. DOATLP in particular is a fantasy and creates a fantasy "world" (sometimes pretty scary) for kids that I don't think anyone really believe existed.
I visited post-WWII Europe in the late 1950s and 1960s. There were villages something similar to that shown in the "Quiet Man" and even reminiscent of DOATLP
In those days, most people were generally poor and there were few cars. Most people walked, or rode bicycles, or took the bus. People strolled in the shopping areas with baskets each day to shop. Actually, not a bad way of life. But, probably a bit boring, particularly when people saw a more prosperous post-WWII America on the TV, which at the time was definitely enjoying the spoils of war and did not have its homeland economies ruined like Europe did, and was saturating the TV airwaves with Hollywood programming.
I've been back to Europe since and of course nothing looks the same any more. Cars everywhere, just like the US. Small shops are gone and replaced with superstores.
I was surprised when I watched the DVD features, such as the interview with Sean Connery, that this was filmed entirely in Hollywood (actually Burbank) and at locations in and around southern California. No Ireland locations.