Do you mean by "speaking Irish" Gaelic? Or you taking the piss out of his accent? lol. If you mean gaelic, I think that's a bit too much effort, it would be wasted. I once got marked down in college for having a character chanting in Latin, because the examiner didn't understand it. Even with subtitles I think it would be a bit too much for the average movie fan.
As for the landlord, I dunno, I know nothing about Irish history.
Kung fu movies are like porn. There's 1 on 1, then 2 on 1, then a group scene...
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Gosker
19 years ago
I presume he meant "speaking Irish" as in the native language of Ireland.
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ecummins86
19 years ago
Hate to break it to you, but movies that deal with a bit of history aren't ever going to be completely historic or accurate to the time period. Maybe in the case of Passion Of The Christ it was, but for the most part I myself am not bothered if Cruise and Kidman (and all the other Irish characters while the film was still set in Ireland in the beginning) weren't speaking in Gaelic or the natural Irish tongue/language. And as far as the Land Owner goes, that wasn't him enforcing those punishments for not paying rent on time. That was Stephen conducting all that on "behalf" of Daniel Christie. Christie actually had no knowledge until the morning of that pistol duel when he was speaking with Cruise and felt very sorrowful and sincere in his apology to Cruise about what happened to his family's land. So that being said I have to say that Christie the land lord was portrayed pretty accurately of Land Lords during that time period and it was just Stephen (the guy Kidman was supposed to marry) who was acting like an ass and carrying out actions that Daniel Christie in all honesty knew nothing about.
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