This movie cries out for subtitles. Fortunately, I've worked in Scotland and managed to understand most of the dialogue. I doubt however anyone else could.
Typical Channel Four Cheapeskates. Such a waste. This isn't Scottie on Star Trek.
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That's not even a particulary opaque Glaswegian accent that Robert Carlyle does!
Funny that I have no trouble with 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof'!
I know. I went back to the extra to see if they had left off the subtitles. I guess some of the songs were subtitled. It was weird. Afterawhile. I could figure what was going on. It was likeing watching a opera. You didn't know what people were saying but you could figure it out. the songs and the scenery was great. I kept wandering how he got the money to buy the plane tickets.
have a great and sober day
barb from sunny san francisco
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Has anything changed with that matter?
I've had a copy of this movie recently and i didn't catch almost anything though I'd studied english for 10 years now and usually watch american movies without a problem
Everyone who studies English should have to learn some Scots dialect too, I mean it's as old as English... If ye cannae understand it, tough!
shareI disagree. English is used all around the world, Gaelic and Scottish dialect only in Scotland. There's no real need to learn it if you don't plan to settle in Scotland.
shareI think the Scottish accent is easy enough to understand, once you get used to it. The first few times I heard Robert Carlyle speaking in interviews I found it really hard to understand what he was saying (before that I'd mainly seen him in movies such as "The Full Monty" and "The 51rst State" where he does a British accent, as well as "Once Upon A Time" where he tones down his accent noticably), but after listening to him for a little while, it wasn't so difficult anymore.
Now I can watch Scottish movies (as long as they don't speak Gaelic, of course) without subtitles as well. Even if English isn't my first language. So for me it was just a question of really listening.